{"id":35537,"date":"2026-03-18T00:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/2026-deborah-a-martinsen-symposium-travel-award-announcement\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T00:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:26:19","slug":"2026-deborah-a-martinsen-symposium-travel-award-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/2026-deborah-a-martinsen-symposium-travel-award-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Deborah A. Martinsen Symposium Travel Award Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement\u00a0<\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The North American Dostoevsky Society is delighted to announce that the\u00a0special\u00a0Deborah A. Martinsen Travel Award<\/a>\u00a0to support travel to the\u00a0XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium in Buenos Aires<\/a> has been granted to five recipients: Victoria Juharyan, Jiwon Jung, Elizaveta Shershneva, Ekaterina Tarasova, and Shudi Yang. <\/p>\n

Victoria Juharyan\u00a0<\/strong>teaches literature and philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Victoria completed her PhD in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University in 2018. She also holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a BA in Literary Editing from St. Petersburg State University in Russia. She is currently completing a manuscript titled The Cognitive Value of Love in Tolstoy: A Study in Aesthetics<\/em> and is working on two other long-term projects: one on Hegel\u2019s influence on Russian literature and the other on the eighteenth-century Ukrainian philosopher Hryhorii Skovoroda.\u00a0In addition to these projects, Victoria is developing a theatrical and musical adaptation of Dostoevsky\u2019s\u00a0Netochka Nezvanova<\/em>\u00a0(1849). She is very grateful to be presenting her paper \u2013 \u201cFrom Prose to Performance:\u00a0Dostoevsky Beyond the Page on Screen and Stage\u201d \u2013 with the support of the special Deborah A. Martinsen Travel Award at the XIX IDS Symposium in Buenos Aires. Victoria recalls with fondness Deborah A. Martinsen\u2019s kindness and support of her work on Dostoevsky.<\/p>\n

Jiwon Jung<\/strong> is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. Her dissertation explores how Dostoevsky\u2019s characters use and inhabit language across his major works, examining the tension between authentic and borrowed expression. Through what she calls \u201cpoetic prosaics,\u201d her research illuminates the ethical and creative dimensions of everyday speech in Dostoevsky\u2019s novels. Her paper title for the XIX IDS Symposium is \u201c\u2018You Speak Like a Book\u2019: Language, Agency, and Self-Creation in\u00a0Notes from Underground<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elizaveta Shershneva<\/strong> was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. After high school, she studied\u00a0philology\u00a0at the Higher School of Economics, specializing in Russian literature. After completing her Master\u2019s degree, she was accepted to the\u00a0Department of Slavic & East European Languages & Cultures\u00a0of the University of Toronto, where she is now\u00a0a 3rd-year\u00a0doctoral student. At the XIX IDS Symposium, she will give a paper entitled \u201cLosing faith in glasnost\u2019: government and journalism from\u00a0Crime and Punishment<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0The Brothers Karamazov<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n

Ekaterina Tarasova<\/strong> is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and a member of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Southern California. Her research examines early Russian and Soviet cinema and literature, focusing on co-authorship, censorship, and the transnational circulation and reception of Soviet cultural works. At the XIX IDS Symposium, she will deliver a paper entitled \u201cThe Early Soviet Reframing of Dostoevsky\u2019s Legacy in the Biopic The House of the Dead<\/em> (Mertvyi Dom<\/em>).\u201d<\/p>\n

Shudi Yang<\/strong>\u00a0is a PhD student in the Slavic department at UC Berkeley. She is the author of\u00a0\u00a0\u201c\u2018Well, go, love Ivan!\u2019: Ivan Karamazov unveiled and the \u2018Pro and Contra\u2019 debate revisited\u201d (Studies in East European Thought<\/em>, 2025). She is currently working on the Smerdyakov question in\u00a0Brothers Karamazov<\/em>; besides Dostoevsky, her current research also includes the reception of classical antiquity in Slavic literatures.\u00a0She will present \u201cSmerdyakov\u2019s Murder Weapon and Dostoevsky\u2019s Mistake\u201d at the XIX IDS Symposium. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The North American Dostoevsky Society stands with all the people of Ukraine, Russia, and the rest of the world who condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See our statement\u00a0here. The North American Dostoevsky Society is delighted to announce that the\u00a0special\u00a0Deborah A. Martinsen Travel Award\u00a0to support travel to the\u00a0XIX International Dostoevsky Symposium in Buenos Aires has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340,"featured_media":35538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers-karamazov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky.org\/society\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}