Areas of Expertise
Behavioral Characteristics of Women Surviving Under Pressure of the Holocaust, the Police States, Ethic Prejudice or Everyday Life; Analysis of Events in Russia and Former Republics of the USSR
Email: luda@brandeis.edu
Current Project
Researching and writing three books:
1) Women surviving the Holocaust, political purges and wars (non-fiction);
2) A novel on a woman struggling with identity issues during the cultural Renaissance in Leningrad during the 1970s;
3) A Sci-Fi novel on women venturing into space travel and gender changes among identity crises.
Biography
Born, raised and educated in Leningrad, USSR. Worked as a Senior Research Fellow in the Geology Department of the Leningrad University. Author of 17 scientific papers in geology. Immigrated to US in 1976. Worked as a geologist at a geological firm in Boston, as a PR manager at the Nakhamkin Art Gallery in NYC and in the Russian-American Broadcasting Corporation in Boston as a host of the program in Russian “Half an hour with Ludmila Shtern.” Published numerous articles and short stories in American and Russian periodicals, including The Boston Globe Magazine, Pequod, Stories, Connecticut Review, and The Conde Nast Traveler. Published seven books in Russian, four books in English, one in Italian. Her English-language books were reviewed by Booklist, Publishers’ Weekly, Kenyon Review, Time Magazine, Review in The Slavic and East European Journal, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. Her short stories are translated into Hungarian, and Dutch. Academic interests include (a) the behavioral characteristics of women surviving under pressure — the pressure of the police state, war, ethnic prejudice, or the pressure of everyday life, (b) analysis of events in Russia and in the former Republics of the USSR, and (c) contemporary Russian literature.
Education
Ph.D., Leningrad University
M.S., Leningrad Mining Institute
Representative Publications
Shtern, Ludmila. Dovlatov, My Good Buddy. St. Petersburg, Russia: Azbooka Publishers, 2005.
Shtern, Ludmila. Brodsky: A Personal Memoir. Fort Worth. TX: Baskerville Publishers, 2004.
Links
Leaving Leningrad - UPNE
Leaving Leningrad - Amazon
Brodsky: A Personal Memoir - Baskerville Publishers
Brodsky: A Personal Memoir - Amazon
Reviews of my Work
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