{"id":4469,"date":"2025-09-29T18:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/news-events\/2025-fall-distinquished-scholar-lecture\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:44:36","slug":"2025-fall-distinquished-scholar-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/news-events\/2025-fall-distinquished-scholar-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Fall Distinquished Scholar Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Poster-DSL-2025-Carol-Any-for-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4481 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Poster-DSL-2025-Carol-Any-for-web-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Poster-DSL-2025-Carol-Any-for-web-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Poster-DSL-2025-Carol-Any-for-web-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Poster-DSL-2025-Carol-Any-for-web-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Poster-DSL-2025-Carol-Any-for-web-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Poster-DSL-2025-Carol-Any-for-web.jpg 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em>What is involved in the creative process?<\/em>\u00a0 <em>\u00a0How should aspiring writers be trained?<\/em><br \/>\nIn an age of reading for entertainment, Bolshevik leaders intent on remaking culture for the communist era believed that their success would depend on the books people read for fun. They hoped writers would produce fiction with engaging heroes whom readers would view as role models. This lecture will address the various aesthetic views held by prominent Bolsheviks, as well as their disagreements over practices of teaching and mentoring young writers in academic seminars, workshops, and publishing houses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4477 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Photo-Any-09-24-2025-2-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Photo-Any-09-24-2025-2-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/language-culture-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2025\/09\/Photo-Any-09-24-2025-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Carol Any<\/strong><\/span> received her Ph.D. in Russian language and literature from the University of Chicago and taught at Trinity College from 1984 to 2025. Her researchcombines aesthetic theory, the relationship between the arts and ideology, and the lives and moral choices of writers living under political repression. She is the author of <em>Boris Eikhenbaum: Voices of a Russian Formalist<\/em> (Stanford University Press, 1994) and <em>The Soviet Writers\u2019 Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin<\/em> (Northwestern University Press, 2020; winner of the University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is involved in the creative process?\u00a0 \u00a0How should aspiring writers be trained? In an age of reading for entertainment, Bolshevik leaders intent on remaking culture for the communist era believed that their success would depend on the books people read for fun. 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