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Daria Smirnova

Instructor in the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies
Slavic & Eurasian Studies
413 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708
413 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


“Decolonization of the Field and Moving Forward in Slavic Languages” · April 2024 International Meeting or Conference Global Voices: Exploring Multilingualism in the 21st Century Conference, Duke University, Durham, NC
“Death and Oblivion in Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory.” · February 2024 International Meeting or Conference American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL),
“Maria Stepanova’s Cosmopolitan Novel: In Memory of Putin’s Russia.” · November 2023 International Meeting or Conference American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), Philadelphia, PA
“The Matryoshka of Memory: Maria Stepanova’s Feminine Family History.” · April 2023 International Meeting or Conference Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS),
“The Past as the Primary Temporality for the Present in Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory.” · March 2023 International Meeting or Conference American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, IL
“‘Tender Narrations’: Humanities Education in Times of Crisis.” · October 2022 International Meeting or Conference The Higher Colleges of Technology’s General Education Division,
“Contemporary Russian Literature as World Literature? Maria Stepanova’s Prose as a Case Study.” · June 2022 International Meeting or Conference American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
“Forced to Forget/Fearing to Tell: The Eradication of Memory in Works by Louise Erdrich, Yoko Ogawa, and Maria Stepanova.” · January 2021 International Meeting or Conference Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdansk, Poland
“Imagined Opposition. The Case of Joseph Brodsky.” · March 2019 International Meeting or Conference The 21st Annual Comparative Literature Conference at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
“The Evolution of The Idea Nostos in Joseph Brodsky’s Poems ‘From the Outskirts to the Center” and ‘Odysseus to Telemachus.’” · March 2019 International Meeting or Conference Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Mobile, AL