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.
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Life
Boym was born in St Petersburg, Russia. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending She studied Spanish at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River [2]
Written Work
Boym's written work explores relationships between utopia and kitsch, between memory and modernity, and between homesickness and sickness of home. [3]
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]
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)
Notes and references
External Links
- Boym's personal website displaying her art
- Boym's page at the Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
- Boym's page at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
- 'Ilya Kabakov: The Soviet Toilet and the Palace of Utopias' an article by Boym for ARTMARGINS 1999
- Article about Boym's exhibition, Nostalgic Technologies by Ken Gewertz for Harvard University Gazette, March 2007.
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