Nadejda Berkovitch
Contact Information
Email: nberkov2@illinois.edu
Education:
Previous education:
B.A.-Herzen University, St. Petersburg, Russia; M.A.-Boston College, Ma
First year in the Ph.D. program: 2005-2006
Research Interests:
Russian and Yiddish melancholy, Russian and Yiddish fin de siecle, psychological and physiological degeneration, madness, urban space, sick and sexual bodies, carnival (Bakhtin), Kharms and Prigov, Yiddish and Russian symbolism, movies, mockumentary, conceptual art
Languages:
German (fluent); Yiddish (fluent reading); French (intermediate level); Hebrew (intermediate level); Italian and Swedish (elementary levels)