Speaker Biography: Dr. Christopher Fort received his MA from the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at The Ohio State University in 2012. Upon graduation, he began his doctoral studies at University of Michigan’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. While there he earned a Fulbright student grant to conduct archival research in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He used that time not only to finish his dissertation, which he defended in 2019, but also to acquire materials and contacts for the translation of two Uzbek novels into English. His translations of Abdulhamid Cho‘lpon’s Night and Day (1934) and Isajon Sulton’s Eternal Wanderer (2010) came out in 2019 as well. Since 2020 he has been Assistant Professor at American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Abstract: Dr. Fort’s presentation will discuss how he has used the versatile skill set acquired at Ohio State’s Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies towards furthering his career. Since graduating, Dr. Fort has worked as an academic, a journal and copy editor, a freelance and literary translator, an interpreter, and a research consultant. His talk will emphasize how taking advantage of opportunities while in school and outside of it can help build your resume and make you a good candidate for a variety of jobs.
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