Madeleine Pulman-Jones

is a writer, translator, and PhD student in Slavic Languages at Columbia University. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in publications including PN Review, The Guardian, and Modern Poetry Translation. Recently, she contributed the introduction to Penguin Modern Classics' reissue of Love's Work by Gillian Rose.Madeleine received her BA in Russian and Polish from the University of Cambridge, and recently completed an MA in Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS University of London, where she wrote a dissertation on 20th-century Polish literary culture in Israel. At Columbia, she focuses on Eastern European film and literature, working across Polish, Yiddish and Russian.From 2021 to 2022, she held the Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award. The award funded a year abroad, during which time she worked on a book-length essay, travelling to the Polish-Ukrainian border, Warsaw, Istanbul and elsewhere. While living in Warsaw over spring and summer 2022, Madeleine studied Polish and was a participant in Kem School 2022, an eight-week experimental performance art program in collaboration with Krytyka Polityczna, Galeria Foksal, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, and others.


Education

  • PhD Slavic Languages | Columbia University, New York | 2023 -

  • Naomi Prawer Kadar International Yiddish Summer School | Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | July 2023

  • MA Middle Eastern Studies (Major: Religion, Nationhood and Ethnicity in Judaism) | SOAS University of London | London, UK | 2022-2023

  • Literary Translation from Russian into English | Bristol Translates Summer School | Bristol, UK | July 2021

  • Russian Language & Literature | Moscow State University | Moscow, Russia | 2019-2020

  • Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics (Russian and Polish) | The University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK | 2017-2021


Poetry

Essays and Nonfiction

Translations


Awards