Mikhail Itkin

Mikhail Itkin is an incoming PhD student in the interdisciplinary Film Studies and Slavic program at the University of Pittsburgh. His current research interests include late-Soviet and postmodernist literature and visual culture, narratology, and social philosophy. He published works on Vladimir Korolenko, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, David Samoilov, and made presentations on international conferences. He is also the editor and regular contributor to the journal K! Film Criticism and Theory, based in Saint Petersburg, Russia.