About Svetlana Boym

Svetlana Boym is writer, theorist and media artist. Her books include The Future of Nostalgia (2001) Common Places (1994); Kosmos: Remembrances of the Future (with Adam Bartos, 2002); Death in Quotation Marks (1991); the novel Ninochka (2003); and Territories of Terror: Memories and Mythologies of Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art (exhibition catalogue, 2006). She is currently working on a book entitled Architecture of Freedom and on a collection of essays and projects, Off-modern Ruins.

Svetlana Boym teaches in Comparative Literature at Harvard University and is an Associate of Graduate School of Design. Native of St. Petersburg, Russia, she now lives and works in Cambridge, USA.

To learn more about her academic interests and publications, please visit her staff pages at Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature.

2006-2007 Lectures and Artistic Presentations

• Cranbrook Graduate School, Cranbrook, MI (January 2007)
• Columbia Univ., Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture (November 2006)
• Ljubljana City of Women Festival, Ljubljana City Museum, Slovenia (October 2006)
• Frieze Art Fair, London, UK (October 2006)
• Boston University Art Gallery, Territories of Terror exhibit (Curator; October 2006)
• New York City, Kitchen, Performance Art Space (April 2006)
• Vienna ArtWeek, Freud's Museum. Vienna, Austria (March 2006)
• Stanford University, Conference on "Extreme Contemporary" (January 2006)

2006-2007 Solo Exhibits

• Transit Gallery (February 21-April 10, 2007)
• Ljubljana Factory Rog (October 2006)