Valeria Sobol, Associate Professor and Head of Slavic Languages and Literatures, was recently awarded the prize for the Best Article in the field of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature and culture (2018-19) from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies.

She received the award for her article, “’Tis Eighty Years Since: Panteleimon Kulish’s Gothic Ukraine,” published in Slavic Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (Summer 2019).

Sobol’s research interests include 19th-century Russian literature and culture, 18th-century Russian literature, empire and the Gothic, Russian literature and science/medicine, Ukrainian literature, and Czech literature.

She is the author of Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination (Seattle University of Washington Press 2009). Sobol also recently completed the book Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny (Northern Illinois University Press, imprint of Cornell University Press, forthcoming in 2020). The book explores the connection between the Gothic mode in Russian literature of the period and its imperial context.

Slavic Review is an international interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present.