#62: A Russian Emigre Poet with Nina Gopaldas '24, Comparative Literature

Burn Your Draft is back from summer break! Check out this interview with Nina Gopaldas '24, whose thesis involved translating poetry by a Russian refugee named Olga Skopichenko who lived in a refugee camp in the Philippines for a short time after World War II. Nina also tells Avis about her journey to Reed as a transfer student and about how she started college as an applied math major specializing in mathematical finance and became a comparative literature major at Reed. Reed community members can read Nina's thesis, "'Take a Hundred Lines for the Memory of Those who Lived on Tubabao': The Poetics of Exile and Displacement in Olga Skopichenko’s Verse," online in the Electronic Theses Archive: https://rdc.reed.edu/i/519a8b2f-d4f6-4d6a-9ffc-99f295c51d78 Explore more interviews with Reed College alumni on our website: reed.edu/burnyourdraft