Year of stay: | 2025 |
Website: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-furlong-b51999310/ |
Nora Paci Furlong is a writer, researcher, and translator. Her work concentrates on exilic literature, autofictional documents, the post-Soviet space, and the temporality of revolution. While living in Armenia and Georgia, she studied at Yerevan State University and volunteered with the Tolstoy in Tbilisi symposia, examining literary imperialism and cultural osmosis in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Her research, conducted at the National Archives in Kraków, the National Archives of Hungary, and the New York YIVO Institute, focuses primarily on Gulag narratives; her literary analysis of Varlam Shalamov's Колымские Pассказы won Yale University's James Billington award in 2023. She has also been recognised twice by Bard College for her contributions to the field of Russian and Eurasian scholarship, and has presented at NYU and Macalester College on Russophone lang/scapes. While finishing her undergraduate studies, Nora is working at World Poetry Books, a Brooklyn-based publishing company devoted to the distribution of translated poetry, and serving as an advisor on the National Humanities Leadership Council. Her Italian and French translations can be found in Sui Generis magazine, while her critical work has been published by the East European Film Bulletin and Columbia University's The Birch.