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Daria Smirnova

Lecturing Fellow 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
“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
“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