Molly Thomasy Blasing

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Born and raised outside of Boston, Molly began studying Russian during her first year as a student at Harvard and graduated in 2002 with a BA in Russian Literature and Culture. After college she worked for sixteen months as an editor and English teacher in several cities in western Russia, including Tver’, Lipetsk, Ulianovsk and Orel. Molly had some wonderful adventures in Russia: she rode in a glider plane and computerized flight simulator, took French horn lessons, and learned to make pel’meni. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has taught Russian language and literature. Her research interests include Russian and Polish poetry, 20th century Russian theater, the visual arts in literature, and second language acquisition. Next year, she will be conducting dissertation research in Moscow exploring the influence of photography, optical devices and film on Russian poetry.