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Svetlana Boym was born on 29 April, 1966 in Leningrad, is a Russian-American cultural theorist and novelist (1959–2015). Discover Svetlana Boym's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 49 years old?
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29 April, 1966 |
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29 April |
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Leningrad |
| Date of death |
5 August, 2015 |
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Boston, Massachusetts, US |
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Russia
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Svetlana Boym Height, Weight & Measurements
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Svetlana Boym Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Svetlana Boym worth at the age of 49 years old? Svetlana Boym’s income source is mostly from being a successful novelist. She is from Russia. We have estimated Svetlana Boym's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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She received an M.A. from Boston University and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1988.
In 2006, an exhibition showing Boym's media art opened in Factory Rog-Metelkovo, an art space in Ljubljana during the City of Women Festival.
She also curated the exhibit "Territories of Terror: Memories and Mythologies of Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art" at Boston's University Art Gallery in 2006.
The exhibition tackled the dual imperative of Gulag history and mythology, map and territory.
Boym also edited the exhibition catalogue that accompanied the exhibition.
After that, she exhibited her work in various spaces including the Center for Book Arts in New York in 2008, and Galerija 101 in Kaunas in 2009.
Svetlana Boym (Светла́на Ю́рьевна Бо́йм; 1959 – August 5, 2015) was a Russian-American cultural theorist, visual and media artist, playwright and novelist.
She was the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University.
She was an associate of the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Harvard University.
Much of her work focused on developing the new theoretical concept of the off-modern.
Boym was born in Leningrad, USSR.
She studied Spanish at the Herzen Pedagogical Institute in Leningrad.
At the age of 19, she emigrated to Boston, after spending time at a refugee transit camp in Simmering, a district of Vienna.
Her father subsequently lost his position as an engineer, and her parents were denied the right to leave the USSR for six years.
Boym died on August 5, 2015, aged 56, in Boston, Massachusetts, from cancer.
She was survived by her partner, the political theorist Dana Villa.
Boym's written work explored relationships between utopia and kitsch, memory and modernity, and homesickness and the sickness of home.
Her research interests included 20th-century Russian literature, cultural studies, comparative literature and literary studies.
In addition to teaching and writing, Boym also sat on the Editorial Collective of the interdisciplinary scholarly journal Public Culture.
Boym was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Cabot Award for Research in Humanities, and an award from the American Council of Learned Societies.
She won a Gilette Company Fellowship which provided her half a year study at the American Academy in Berlin.
In 2016, Boym's short film Remembering Forgetting about her emigration debuted posthumously in Vienna.
