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Nadya Peterson

Nadya Peterson

Associate Professor

Dr. Nadya Peterson is an associate professor in the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies and an advisor in Russian in the Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting (MATI) program.

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PROFILE

Dr. Nadya Peterson has taught in some of the most prominent Russian language and literature programs in the country, including Princeton University, Indiana University, Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, University of Pennsylvania and now Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She has contributed greatly to the present scholarly knowledge about Soviet and post-Soviet literature, Russian women writers, Russian education and the writer A. P. Chekhov. Dr. Peterson obtained her PhD in Russian literature from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Dr. Peterson is the head of the Russian and Slavic Studies division at Hunter College, and is also in charge of the Russian component in the Master of Arts in Translation and Interpreting (MATI).  She created an ongoing cultural program that has been in operation for over a decade—a program that brings poets, fiction writers, film makers, artists and translators to Hunter so that students and citizens of New York can learn more about all things Russian.

Dr. Peterson is a published translator and editor. In the past, she was in charge of hosting Fulbright teaching assistants from Russia and, for many years, served as an evaluator for the program. She has given lectures and presentations on Russian literature and culture in various venues in New York, and taught Russian to NYC police officers so that they could communicate better with Russian speaking people.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

  • Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD)

RESEARCH

  • The life and work of Anton Chekhov
  • Cultural Politics in Soviet Russia in the 1920s

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

the witching hour book coverThe Witching Hour and Other Plays
Nadya Peterson
Academic Studies Press, 2014. Published in 8 editions
Nominated for the best translation in fiction category by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European languages for 2015.

Russian Love Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Prose
Peter Lang, 2009. Published in 7 editions

Subversive Imaginations: Fantastic Prose and the End of Soviet Literature, 1970s--1990s
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997. Published in 8 editions
Selected by Choice as a notable book of the year.

Conversational Russian: A Complete Course in Everyday Russian
New York: Crown Publishers, 1993. Multiple editions.

OFFICE HOURS

Monday, Thursday: 12:30 - 2:30 pm

By Appointment: Contact to Schedule

Contact Details

Nadya Peterson

Classical & Oriental Studies
68th Street West 1302
212-772-5059
npeterso@hunter.cuny.edu

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