Редакция Tamizdat Project

Yasha Klots (Project Director) 

Yasha Klots is an Assistant Professor of Russian at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Yale University 2011, where he worked with Tomas Venclova on his dissertation, and M.A. from Boston College (2005). Before joining Hunter in 2016, he taught at Georgia Institute of Technology, Williams College and Yale. In 2014-2016, he was a Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. His research interests include Russian and East European émigré literature and book history, contemporary Russian poetry, linguistic anthropology, bilingualism and literary translation, Gulag narratives (in particular, Shalamov), urbanism, the mythology of St. Petersburg and representation of other cities in Russian literature. He is the author of articles on Varlam Shalamov, Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky, Lev Loseff, Vladimir Nabokov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ivan Bunin and Nina Berberova, Russian children's poetry and New York City in Russian literature. In 2010, he published Joseph Brodsky in Lithuania (St. Petersburg: Perlov Design Center; in Russian), and co-translated, with Ross Ufberg, Tamara Petkevich’s Memoir of a Gulag Actress (DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP). His most recent book is Poets in New York: On City, Language, Diaspora(Moscow: NLO, 2016; in Russian), which includes his introduction and annotated interviews with 16 Russian and East European poets. He is working on a monograph Tamizdat, the Cold War and Contraband Russian Literature (1960-1970s) devoted to the circulation, reception and first publications of manuscripts from the Soviet Union in the West.

Diana Gor (Graphic Designer) 

Diana Gor is an incoming graduate student at Stanford University and a double alumna of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Theater and English Literature, Language, and Criticism at Hunter College CUNY. Her research interests include book history, banned and censored Eastern European literature from the Soviet era, and contemporary Ukrainian culture. She currently works as the Development Manager and Archives Assistant at the Shevchenko Scientific Society and volunteers for Tamizdat Project.