Mina Magda

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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
 
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
 
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

 
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