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
'Artefact' | Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal issue 7 | December 2021
'Illness as Living For' | The Book of Bad Betties anthology from Bad Betty Press | September 2021
'Embassies' and 'I catch death in birth's lining' | PN Review issue 257 | February 2021
'Precarious Weather' | The Adroit Journal issue 34 | August 2020
'Salt Water Foot Soak' | The Mays Anthology of New Cambridge And Oxford Writing | July 2019
Essays and Nonfiction
Introduction to Love's Work by Gillian Rose | Penguin Modern Classics | March 2024
'An Additional Declension' | Responses to Love's Work (1995) by Gillian Rose anthology from Pilot Press | July 2022
'Walking in Step With "The Glass Essay"' | Worms issue 4 | December 2021
'Coursing' | Entropy | May 2021
'Ladies of the Canyon' | The Cambridge Review of Books | July 2020
'I'm 21 and have had chemotherapy during lockdown. I was one of the lucky ones.' | The Guardian | May 2020
Translations
'February' by Dana Sideros (translated from the Russian) | Modern Poetry in Translation issue no. 2, 2022 | July 2022
Awards
Naomi Prawer Kadar Fellowship | Columbia University, Tel Aviv University | June-July 2023
Harper-Wood Creative Writing and Travel Award for English Poetry and Literature | St. John's College, Cambridge | 2021-2022
The University of Warsaw Prize for Literary Translation judged by Antonia Lloyd-Jones | The University of Warsaw | June 2021
Finalist for the Adroit Prize for Poetry judged by Jericho Brown | The Adroit Journal | August 2020