Ash Maria
Ash Maria (he/they) is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. As a comparativist, Ash is primarily interested in research at the intersection of Baltic, Lusophone, and Slavic studies.
Anna Linetskaya
Anna Linetskaya’s proposed plan of study focuses, inter alia, on the role of linguistic subversion—and prostorechie in particular—in the narrative ethics and aesthetics of Russophone prose and its regional variations.
Jack Cao
Education
BA in English with First Class Honours – University of Melbourne
MA in English and Comparative Literature with First Class Honours – University of Melbourne
Biography
English PEN’s flagship grant programme PEN Translates awards 13 titles from 12 countries and 9 languages
For Armenian PEN Translates award winner:
A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (Armenia), translated from the Eastern Armenian by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz. (Tilted Axis Press.)
See complete list of countries and languages:
Hilah Kohen
I am a translator, researcher, and language advocate. Before beginning my PhD at Penn, I worked in journalism and editing. You can find examples of my work on my website.
Hilah Kohen winner of the REEESNe's Carlos Pascual Prize 2023
Hilah Kohen is the 2023 First Prize winner of REEESNe's Carlos Pascual Prize for her paper "From Juhuri to Gĩkũyũ: The Global Circulation of Language Choice in the Soviet Era."