Introducing “Dissertation in One Minute” a short video series from Harvard Griffin GSAS featuring PhD students explaining their research in 60 seconds! In this installment, Anna Ivanov, a PhD candidate in Slavic Languages and Literature, discusses her dissertation Network(ed) Russian Poetry: 1820-2020s, which looks at the role and history of connection in Russian poetry. Here she shares a chapter looking at the evolving landscape of Russian poetry and poetic connection in the digital age, specifically focusing on how Russian and Ukrainian poets share their poetry and make connections via the social media giant Facebook and how these connections appear in contemporary poetry.
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