-- In the English university system, you don't 'Major'. --> she adapted and staged Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground as part of her Honours Thesis.
Notes from Underground, sometimes translated as Notes from the Underground, an 1864 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The narrator of Notes from Underground, an 1864 Russian short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Past winners included Gary Walkow (Notes from Underground), Constance Marks (Green Chimneys), Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals), David Riker (La Ciudad), Daniel Yoon (Post Concussion), and a lifetime achievement award for Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
Two songs on the album make reference to elements of works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, namely "Philadelphia" referring to 'Raskolnikov', the main character in Crime and Punishment, and "A Song from Under the Floorboards" of which the opening sentence is a paraphrase of the opening sentence in Notes from Underground'.
The name relates to Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground (German: “Aufzeichnungen aus dem Kellerloch”) and Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.