BENJAMIN PALOFF – Michigan Quarterly Review

BENJAMIN PALOFF

Benjamin Paloff received the Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University in 2007 and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since then. He is the author of The Politics (2011), a collection of poems. Additional publications include articles on the construction of God in contemporary Russian poetry and the metaphysics of the Other in Polish and Czech Modernism, as well as translations of several books from Polish, including works by Dorota Maslowska, Marek Bienczyk, and Andrzej Sosnowski. He is the recipient of fellowships from Poland’s Book Institute (2010), the National Endowment for the Arts (2009-2010), and the Michigan Society of Fellows (2007-2010), is a poetry editor at Boston Review, and is active in Michigan’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Ongoing projects include a study of intermediacy in interwar literature and another on the notion of impermanence in poetic theory. Teaching interests in Comparative Literature include undergraduate courses on Art House Animation and Poetics and graduate seminars on Eastern European Poets in the West and translation theory.

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We Are All In Terrible Danger: Reflections Six Weeks into Russia’s Assault on Ukraine

In 2019, when we were putting together a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review called What Does Europe Want Now?, we were especially concerned that a global resurgence of authoritarianism threatened the European project itself. My introduction to that issue suggested “good literature,” which rejects “the kinds of easy platitudes populists and salesmen offer in exchange for votes […]

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In 2019, when we were putting together a special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review called What Does Europe Want Now?, we were especially concerned that a global resurgence of authoritarianism threatened the European project itself. My introduction to that issue suggested “good literature,” which rejects “the kinds of easy platitudes populists and salesmen offer in exchange for votes

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Quo Vadis Europa?

 Benjamin Paloff guest edited MQR’s Fall 2019 Europe Issue, and introduces the issue with the following essay. I spent Election Night 2016 in a tense information blackout high above the Atlantic. My wife, Megan, was seated next to me, and my colleague Ewa, with whom Megan had translated a 1920s novel with an unrelentingly dim

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 Benjamin Paloff guest edited MQR’s Fall 2019 Europe Issue, and introduces the issue with the following essay. I spent Election Night 2016 in a tense information blackout high above the Atlantic. My wife, Megan, was seated next to me, and my colleague Ewa, with whom Megan had translated a 1920s novel with an unrelentingly dim

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