 Lev Loseff (Photo by Joseph Mehling)
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Lev Loseff, Professor of Russian Literature, has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to support completion of his annotated edition of works by Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky. "For me it is more than just another academic project, but a way to keep a precious friendship alive," Loseff said. Brodsky, who was a close personal friend of Loseff’s dating back to their young adult lives in the Soviet Union, wrote in both English and Russian. He was a Nobel Prize winner and, after moving to the United States, was the nation’s poet laureate. "A Guggenheim fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards that an academic can receive," said Ed Berger, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "It’s very selective." The Guggenheim Foundation awarded 182 fellowships this year, selected from more than 2,900 applications. Fellowships are awarded on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment, according to information provided by the Guggenheim Foundation. Since 1925, the foundation has granted more than $192 million in fellowships to nearly 15,000 individuals. Past fellows include Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Linus Pauling, Martha Graham, Philip Roth and Eudora Welty, among others. Other Dartmouth faculty who received Guggenheim fellowships in recent years include Richard Wright, Professor of Geography; Anne Sa’adah, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science; and Pamela Crossley, Professor of History and Chair of the Asian Studies Program. – Tamara Steinert |
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