Lusia A Zaitseva

Lusia completed her B.A. in French literature at Columbia University with honors in 2010 and her A.M. in comparative literature at Harvard in 2013. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the same department. She works in Russian, French, and Urdu literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In the past she has written on narratives of resistance in Anna Akhmatova's Requiem, witnessing in Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, memory in Yannick Haenel's Jan Karski, and the love lyric of Joseph Brodsky and the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Her dissertation is entitled “Performing the Vulnerable Subject in Stalinist-Era Poetry and Prose.”