ASP Summer Reads
July 15, 2024
Looking for a new read this summer? Look no further! From poignant short story collections to tell-all memoirs to authoritative histories, ASP has you covered. Check out some of our… READ MORE
Tag: Slavic Studies
Academic Studies Press to host “Pushkin after 1831: Dedicated to the 190th Anniversary of ‘The Bronze Horseman'”
November 30, 2023
Academic Studies Press is pleased to host “Pushkin after 1831,” an international online conference commemorating the 190th anniversary of The Bronze Horseman. Gathering together the most prominent specialists on Pushkin from both sides of the Atlantic, this four-day conference encompasses an extensive array of topics that will engage attendees within the global Slavic Studies community.
Translator Interview: Alexander Rojavin on literary translation, the precision of language, and the works of Alexander Genis & Fazil Iskander
May 22, 2023
ASP is pleased to present an interview with Alexander Rojavin, translator of Alexander Genis’s Dovlatov and Surroundings: A Philological Novel and Fazil Iskander’s Man and His Surroundings, for #ReadTheWorld, an online bookfair celebrating translation organized by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
Author Interview: Andrii Portnov on DNIPRO: AN ENTANGLED HISTORY OF A EUROPEAN CITY
January 18, 2023
ASP is pleased to present an interview with Professor Andrii Portnov, author of the the newly released “pathbreaking study” on the history of one of Ukraine’s most fascinating cities, Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City.
ASP’s 2022 Year in Review
January 6, 2023
Academic Studies Press would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy New Year! Though we’re already a few days into 2023, what better time to reflect on what a year 2022 was; we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite reviews, noteworthy media mentions, notable 2022 releases, and more. Here’s to 2023!
Read the World 2022: An ASP Reading List
September 30, 2022
As a publisher that’s values efforts to improve the accessibility of works from all over the world through translation, ASP is excited to be joining the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in celebrating works in translation, their translators, and their publishers by participating in Read The World, an online bookfair taking place over social media from September 30 (International Translation Day) to October 7. To celebrate, we’ve compiled a reading list of some of our favorite recently published and forthcoming translations.
“My Hebrew Writing and the MGB Informer”: Excerpt from Zvi Preigerzon’s “Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag,” with an introduction by Alex Lahav
September 9, 2022
We are pleased to present here an adapted excerpt from Zvi Preigerzon’s Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag, translated from the Hebrew, accompanied by a personal introduction from editor and translator Alex Lahav. The book tells the story of Zvi Preigerzon’s arrest, interrogation, and imprisonment in the Gulag and describes many of the Jewish prisoners whom he met there.
ASP Abridged: The Promise of “Democracy” during the Yeltsin Years
June 2, 2022
We are pleased to present the latest in our ASP Abridged blog series, in which authors give readers a short and sweet introduction to their latest book.
Here, David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young, and Michael K. Launer introduce us to their new book, The Rhetorical Rise and Demise of “Democracy” in Russian Political Discourse, Volume 2: The Promise of “Democracy” during the Yeltsin Years.
Defining Patriotism, Citizenship, and Betrayal: Excerpt from “Don’t Be a Stranger” and a personal introduction from Jason Galie
April 27, 2022
We are pleased to present here an excerpt of Don’t Be a Stranger: Russian Literature and the Perils of Not Fitting In, accompanied by a short personal introduction in which the author, Jason Galie, situates the volume’s analysis of the svoj/chuzhoj dichotomy in Russian society and literature within the larger context of the current war in Ukraine. Don’t Be a Stranger explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to illuminate what prompted Christof Ruhl, an economist at the World Bank, to comment, about Russia, “On a very broad scale, it’s a country where people care about their family and friends. Their clan. But not their society.”
ASP Abridged: Wandering in Circles
February 8, 2022
We are pleased to present the latest in our ASP Abridged blog series, in which authors give readers a short and sweet introduction to their latest book.
Here, Jill Martiniuk introduces us to her new book, Wandering in Circles: Venichka’s Journey of Redemption in “Moskva-Petushki”.