“My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee
“I’m Ruslana from Severodonetsk, a now disappearing city.”
January 3, 2023
By José Vergara
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José Vergara
José Vergara is Assistant Professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College, where he teaches all eras of Russian culture and specializes in prose of the long twentieth century with an emphasis on experimental works. His first book, All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature (2021), examines the reception of Joyce’s fiction among Russian writers from the 1920s to the present day. His writing and interviews can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Asymptote, Words without Borders, Music & Literature, and World Literature Today.
On the Dangers of Greatness: A Conversation with Svetlana Alexievich
“We simply have to overcome this threat.”
June 3, 2022
By José Vergara
