Svetlana Boym

Svetlana Boym (1959- )is the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University, and a media artist, playwright and novelist. [ [http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0465007082 Powell's Books - The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym ] ] She is also an associate of the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Harvard University.

Boym was born in St Petersburg, Russia. She studied Spanish at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad. [ [http://www.eurozine.com/authors/boym.html Eurozine biography] ] She received an M.A. from Boston University in 1983 and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1988.

Boym's written work explores relationships between utopia and kitsch, between memory and modernity, and between homesickness and sickness of home. [http://www.friezefoundation.org/biography/profile/svetlana_boym/ Freize Foundation ] Her research interests generally include 20th century Russian literature, cultural studies, comparative literature and literary studies. She is currently working on "The Other Freedom: Between Aesthetics and Politics". In addition to teaching and writing, Boym also sits on the Editorial Collective of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal Public Culture. Boym has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Cabot Award for Research in Humanities, and an award from the American Council for Learned Societies.

In the 2006, Boym's media art exhibit opened in Ljubljana Factory Rog Art Space during the City of Women Festival. At the same time she curated the exhibit "Territories of Terror: Memories and Mythologies of Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art" at the Boston University Art Gallery. [http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/pipermail/daviscalendar-list/2007-February/000107.html Accessed 28th April, 2008 ]

elected bibliography

* Ninotchka: A Novel (SUNY Press, 2003)
* Kosmos: Remembrances of the Future - photographs by Adam Bartos, text by Svetlana Boym (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001)
* The Future of Nostalgia (Basic Books, 2001)
* Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Harvard University Press, 1994)
* Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Harvard University Press, 1991)

Notes and References

External links

* [http://www.svetlanaboym.com/main.htm Boym's personal website displaying her art]
* [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~complit/sboym.htm Boym's page at the Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University]
* [http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/bio_boym.html Boym's page at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University]
* [http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/boym2.html 'Ilya Kabakov: The Soviet Toilet and the Palace of Utopias'] an article by Boym for ARTMARGINS 1999
* [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/03.01/15-boym.html Article about Boym's exhibition, "Nostalgic Technologies"] by Ken Gewertz for "Harvard University Gazette", March 2007.