{"id":9162,"date":"2017-10-19T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=9162"},"modified":"2022-10-19T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T16:43:13","slug":"katherine-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/katherine-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Katherine Tiernan O\u2019Connor, Professor of Russian <\/span><i class=\"ContentPasted0\">emeritus<\/i><span>, retired from Boston University in 2012 after 41 years of service. Her many contributions included longtime service as the director of the BU Humanities Foundation <\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted3\">(<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted1 ContentPasted3\">1991-2008)<\/span><span>, precursor to today\u2019s BU Center for the Humanities<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted1\">. As\u00a0<\/span><span>chair <\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted4\">(1988-96)\u00a0<\/span><span>of the department then called Modern Languages and Comparative Literature,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted2\">she administered one of the largest units on campus, a titanic omnibus department including all the languages and cultures now housed in Romance Studies and African Studies in addition to those now taught in WLL<\/span><span>. In 1981 Professor O\u2019Connor was awarded the Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Her scholarly publications included vital studies and translations of 19<\/span><sup class=\"ContentPasted0\">th<\/sup><span>&#8211; and 20<\/span><sup class=\"ContentPasted0\">th<\/sup><span>-century Russian writers, with particular focus on Boris Pasternak and Anton Chekhov, as well as a much-needed retranslation of Mikhail Bulgakov&#8217;s novel <\/span><i>The Master and Margarita<\/i><span>.<\/span><i> <\/i><span>Among her distinctions were fellowships and awards from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13845,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/9162\/revisions\/17267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}