Abigail Weil

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Education: Pratt Institute, Harvard University, The University of Texas at Austin, Bard College

Expertise: Culture, Slavic languages and literature

Abigail Weil is an assistant editor at Oxford University Press.
Weil has a PhD in Slavic languages and literature from Harvard University where she wrote her dissertation on author Jaroslav Hašek.
She has written for Edible Brooklyn and covered Off-Broadway for The Theatre Times.

Experience

Abigail Weil has a PhD from Harvard University in Slavic Languages and Literature. She wrote her dissertation on Jaroslav Hašek, an early 1900's Czech writer. His most famous novel, The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk, has inspired themed restaurants and pubs across Europe.

Weil spent a summer traveling to eight countries, conducting interviews in multiple languages and learning about the Švejk restaurant phenomenon.

She has also covered Off-Broadway for The Theatre Times and has written for Edible Brooklyn.

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