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#62: A Russian Emigre Poet with Nina Gopaldas '24, Comparative Literature

#62: A Russian Emigre Poet with Nina Gopaldas '24, Comparative Literature

Update: 2024-08-28
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Burn Your Draft is back from summer break! Check out this interview with Nina Gopaldas '24, whose thesis involved translating poetry by a Russian refugee named Olga Skopichenko who lived in a refugee camp in the Philippines for a short time after World War II. Nina also tells Avis about her journey to Reed as a transfer student and about how she started college as an applied math major specializing in mathematical finance and became a comparative literature major at Reed.

Reed community members can read Nina's thesis, "'Take a Hundred Lines for the Memory of Those who Lived on Tubabao': The Poetics of Exile and Displacement in Olga Skopichenko’s Verse," online in the Electronic Theses Archive:
https://rdc.reed.edu/i/519a8b2f-d4f6-4d6a-9ffc-99f295c51d78

Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website:
reed.edu/burnyourdraft
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#62: A Russian Emigre Poet with Nina Gopaldas '24, Comparative Literature

#62: A Russian Emigre Poet with Nina Gopaldas '24, Comparative Literature

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