Lusia Zaitseva

Lusia Zaitseva earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard and her B.A. from Columbia University in French Literature and Creative Writing. She taught in the Harvard College Writing Program from 2018-2022. Her research on Silver Age figures such as the Mandelstams has appeared in the Slavic & Eastern European Journal and in Slavic Review. In addition, her work on Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s time in the USSR has been published in Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA) and the journal Comparative Literature. She is currently working on a full-length translation of Faiz's travelogue about the Soviet Union, Months and Years of Friendship: Recollections. A portion of this translation of Faiz’s travelogue is also forthcoming in Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan).