Svetlana Boym

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Svetlana Boym (1966- )is the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University, and a media artist, playwright and novelist.^[1] She is also an associate of the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Harvard University.

1 Life
2 Written Work
3 Art
4 Works by Svetlana Boym
5 Notes and references
6 External Links

[edit] Life

Boym was born in St Petersburg, Russia. She studied Spanish at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad. ^[2]

[edit] Written Work

Boym's written work explores relationships between utopia and kitsch, between memory and modernity, and between homesickness and sickness of home.^[3]

[edit] Art

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.^[4]

[edit] Works by Svetlana Boym

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)