The Lowell Humanities Lecture Series presents Elif Batuman.
Journalist, critic, blogger, and author Elif Batuman has written about Thai boxing, Russian ice palaces, and comedy traffic school for The New Yorker. She contributes to London Review of Books, n+1, and the Nation. The New York Times called her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, a "fantastically entertaining memoir-cum-travelogue of her education in Russian (and Uzbek!) language and literature—in Hungary, Turkey, Russia, Uzbekistan and suburban California." A first-generation Turkish-American, Batuman was born in New York, raised in New Jersey, and currently lives in San Francisco. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and teaches at Stanford University.
The lecture will take place in Devlin 101 on the main Boston College Campus.
