José Vergara is associate professor of Russian on the Myra T. Cooley Lectureship at Bryn Mawr College. His interviews and other writing can also be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Asymptote, Words without Borders, and World Literature Today.
José Vergara
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Writing on Public Books
“Suddenly, the New Story Was There”
“I had seen a lot of bitumen in the devastated landscapes of the bitumen mines. But seeing it here, in such a mundane and tranquil setting, surprised me. That was when I first understood that this material is natural.”
“The War Conquers You Not Only Physically”: Darya Tsymbalyuk on Plants and Humans in Ukraine
For several years, Darya Tsymbalyuk has been drafting a new history of Ukraine’s Donbas that overturns our assumptions. Rather than focus on the industrialization and war that have dominated the region, she interviews locals and asks them to draw maps of their hometowns, based on their memories and emotional connections. The resulting maps—which emerge in […]
