Zoya Yurieff (Mikulowska)
Slavic literatures scholar, translator, author
Born Aug. 24, 1922, Siemiatycze, Poland; came to U.S., 1947; daughter of Joseph and Helen (Rakovsky); chiIdren: George, Michael.
Education: University of Lwow (Poland), 1940-41; University of Munich (Germany), 1945-46; Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (with distinction), Barnard College, New York City, 1949; Master of Arts (M.A.), Radcliffe College, 1950, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1956, Cambridge (MA).
Career: instructor (Russian language and literature), 1959-62, assistant prof. (Russian literature), 1962-64, associate prof. (Slavic literatures), 1966-74, prof., 1974-87, prof. emerita, 1987 -. New York University (NYU), New York City; visiting associate prof., Indiana University, 1964.
Author: Jozef Wittiin, 1973; translator (from Russian into Polish), Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelshtam, Poems in Wiadomosci (United Kingdom), 1955, (from Polish into Russian), K. Wierzynski, Izbrannoe (selected poetry), 1985; over 50 articles and book reviews.
Member of: executive committee member, Literature and Arts section, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.); International PEN-Club; editorial board member, Novyj Zurnal; Ukrainian Academy of Art and Sciences in United States.
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Welwood Murray graduate fellowship, Barnard College, 1949; listed in Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.
Affiliation: Greek-Orthodox.
Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, English, German.
Hobbies: collecting rare books.
Home: 46-04 196th Street, Flushing, NY 11358.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.