Adam Laten Willson
Adam Laten Willson holds a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM (2007), an MLitt in Comparative Literature from University of Glasgow (2019, Award of Distinction), and an MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Northwestern University (2023). Adam is also currently undertaking a third Master’s degree in Russian language at Middlebury College. This year, with Boren fellowship funding, he is participating in Middlebury’s year-long study abroad program in Astana, Kazakhstan. His dissertation at Northwestern will investigate how non-Russian authors during the Soviet era, particularly Central Asian authors, utilized the ideological parameters and literary technologies of mainstream Soviet literature, as well as the localized and globalizing objectives of Soviet cultural institutions, to promote sites of resistance, heterogenous culture, and national narrative, within and against Soviet totalitarianism.