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Boris Lanin and Alexandra Popoff: Vasily Grossman (1905-1964)
* Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the Great Russian Jews That Shaped the World Panel Series and the Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Boris Lanin, Head of Literature and Professor at the Academy of Education of Russia
Boris Lanin was born in Baku to a Jewish-Russian family. Lanin served as a visiting professor at the Kennan Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington, DC), the Institute for Advanced Studies (Paris), and Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg. Professor Lanin’s textbooks of literature are widely used at secondary schools in the Russian Federation. Russia’s leading Vasily Grossman specialist, he is a member of Scientific Board of Grossman Center in Torino, Italy. Currently Boris Lanin is National Endowment for Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor at State University of New York, Potsdam. His most recent book is The Prose of the Third Wave of Emigration, 2nd edition (2018).
Alexandra Popoff, author and scholar, was born in Moscow into a family of Russian Jews. Upon graduating from the Gorky Literary Institute in 1982 she worked as a writer and editor at the Literary Gazette. In 1991, as an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow, she wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer and its Sunday magazine. Popoff holds two graduate degrees in literature from the University of Toronto and University of Saskatchewan, where she has also taught. Alexandra Popoff is the author of three literary biographies, among them The Wives: Women behind Russian Literary Giants, and the forthcoming Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century (Yale University Press, March 2019). She has lived in Canada since 1992.
Moderator: Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Director, Project on Russian and Eurasian Jewry; Center Associate, Davis Center
*This event is free and open to the public.