{"id":23070,"date":"1998-04-01T13:44:09","date_gmt":"1998-04-01T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23070"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:51:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:51:53","slug":"professor-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/04\/01\/professor-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian literature professor awarded essay prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Costlow, associate professor of Russian at Bates College,  has won the 1997 Heldt Prize for best essay in Slavic women&#8217;s studies.  The award is given annually by the Association of Women in Slavic  Studies. Costlow&#8217;s essay, <em>The Gallop, the Wolf, the Caress: Eros and  Nature in &#8216;The Tragic Menagerie&#8217;<\/em>, explores Lydia Zinovieava-Annibal&#8217;s  1907 autobiographical novel, an account of childhood in Russia just  before the revolution. The author was a turn-of-the-century writer  married to the famous poet Ivanov.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->According to Costlow, the book, just republished in  Russia, is one of the great forgotten works of pre-revolutionary Russia,  the story of a young girl between the ages of eight and 14 as she  &#8220;comes to an awareness of herself and the world around her,&#8221; Costlow  said.<\/p>\n<p>Costlow also has translated the novel into English, to  be published in 1998 by Northwestern University Press. She decided to  translate the work after using a few chapters in a Russian literature  class at Bates, where themes of girlhood and environmental issues  resonated with students. A member of the Bates faculty since 1986,  Costlow graduated from Duke University and received master&#8217;s and  doctoral degrees from Yale University. She lives with her family in  Auburn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Costlow, associate professor of Russian at Bates College,  has won the 1997 Heldt Prize for best essay in Slavic women&#8217;s studies.  The award is given annually by the Association of Women in Slavic  Studies. Costlow&#8217;s essay, <em>The Gallop, the Wolf, the Caress: Eros and  Nature in &#8216;The Tragic Menagerie&#8217;<\/em>, explores Lydia Zinovieava-Annibal&#8217;s  1907 autobiographical novel, an account of childhood in Russia just  before the revolution. The author was a turn-of-the-century writer  married to the famous poet Ivanov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[97,4583,7642],"class_list":["post-23070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-awards-to-faculty","tag-jane-costlow","tag-russian-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82863,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions\/82863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}