Greta Slobin (12 May 2011)

[Nancy Condee]

Dear colleagues,

 

Greta Slobin, scholar of Russian modernism,  died on May 12. Greta Slobin
was born in wartime Orenburg, USSR, and moved back to her mother's native
Kishinev (Romania) with her father (who was from Lublin, Poland), where she
grew up. They emigrated to Poland during the brief open-border moment of
1957, and from there to the US in 1960, when her father discovered a sister
who had survived Auschwitz. 

 

Greta graduated from Wayne State University with her B.A. She received her
M.A. In Russian literature at the University of Michigan, and came to Yale
from Middletown CT, where her husband Mark, an ethnomusicologist, had found
a home at Wesleyan University. Her advisor was Victor Erlich, and she loved
the challenging, diverse, and supportive Yale Slavic Department, where she
met many lifelong friends. Greta taught briefly at Wesleyan and SUNY-Albany,
and then for seven years at Amherst College before taking a position at
University of California at Santa Cruz, from which she retired in 2001 as
Professor Emerita. In her last years, she was Visiting Professor in the
College of Letters at Wesleyan. She was also a Fellow at the Harriman
Institute at Columbia, as well as at Harvard (under an NEH fellowship). Her
core scholarship focuses on the literary and artistic work of Alexei Remizov
and Russian modernism. Recently, she was planning the publication of a set
of her collected essays about the Russian diaspora in Paris and Berlin. 

 

A memorial gathering for Greta will take place in Connecticut on July 24;
for further information, please write to her husband, Mark, at
mslobin at wesleyan.edu.

 

Prof. N. Condee, Director

Global Studies Center (NRC Title VI)

University Center for International Studies

University of Pittsburgh

4103 Wesley W. Posvar Hall

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

+1 412-363-7180

condee at pitt.edu

www.ucis.pitt.edu/global 

 


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