Mina Magda
Dissertation
“The Body Eclectic: Negrophilia and Russophilia, and the making of Modernist Paris”
Research Interests
• Performance and visual art
• Modernism
• Critical theory
• Black studies
• Gender and sexuality
• Postcolonial theory
• Aesthetic theory
• Psychoanalysis
· Late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian and French literature
· Histories of art
· Histories of art
Education
• M.A. Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, 2013
• B.A. Art History and Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, 2011
Conferences
“Anna’s Things: Narrative and Materiality in Anna Karenina” at the conference The Expansive Embrace: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Russian Realism, Kansas University, April 2019
Fellowships and Awards
2022
· Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship
· Middlebury Language School Grant
· Houghton Library Visiting Fellowship
· Middlebury Language School Grant
2021
· MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2021)
· MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2021)
2020-2021
- Beinecke Library Graduate and Professional School Research Fellowship
2019
- Tolstoy Studies Journal, Conference Travel Award
2017
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
- Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Award
- Non-Yale Summer Language Funding
2016
- ADSEEES Travel Grant
2014
- Abby and George O’Neill Graduate Research Travel Grant