Student papers win Setchkarev Prizes

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently awarded two V.M. Setchkarev Memorial Prizes of $500 each at its spring reception this May. The prizes went to graduate students Iaroslava Strikha for her paper titled “Pale Fire: Further Adventures in Misreading, or Sympathy for the Devil” and Taylor Walsh for her paper “Re-Casting Sculpture: Aleksandr Rodchenko and Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Pravda.”