Julie Draskoczy

Julie graduated from New York University in 2002 with a BA in Comparative Literature and Russian and Slavic Studies. She began a PhD program at the University of Pittsburgh in 2004, and her dissertation will focus on creativity and labor at Stalin's White Sea Canal.  Her research interests include: Gulag culture, criminality, Maksim Gor'kii, Yiddish and Jewish studies, life-writing, animation and samizdat literature.