Natalie Ryabchikova holds a PhD in Film Studies with concentration in Slavic from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches at the American Studio of the Moscow Art Theater School. She published translations, articles, and chapters on Soviet film history in collected volumes in the US and Europe as well as in journals Kinovedcheskie zapiski, Studies in Russian and Soviet …
Co-Chair, Slavic Department; Director, Russian and East European Studies Center (Title VI NRC). Publications include The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov (I.B. Taurus, 2011); The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema (Oxford, 2009); Antimonies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity, co-edited with Terry Smith and Okwui Enwezor (Duke, 2008); Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style, co-edited with Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko (Northwestern UP, 2000); Soviet …
Olga Klimova holds a Ph.D. degree from Pitt’s Slavic Department and M.S.Ed in Instructional Technology from Duquesne University. She is currently teaching at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington PA and is a Research Associate and an Online Language Tutor at REES, University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught courses in language, literature, culture, and film at Brock University, Mercyhurst University, and …
Aleksandr Kolbovskii is a film and television critic, and a journalist. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Iskusstvo kino, Teatr, and TV-reviu. He has also published in a variety of newspapers, in a wide range of newspapers, from Literaturnaia gazeta to Argumenty i fakty, Obshchaia gazeta to Kutl’tura. He has written several books and directed documentary films. Since …
Randall Halle (Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies) is the Director of the Film Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh and Chair of the German Department. He is also a founding member of the graduate program in Critical European Culture Studies. His books include The Europeanization of Cinema and German Film after Germany. His essays have appeared in journals …
Xenia Leontyeva has a PhD in economics, is an analyst of the Russian cinema market, and head of Nevafilm Research. She graduated from the economics department of the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), Moscow, and did her post-graduate studies at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television. She has been working in the cinema domain since 2004. As …
Victor E.Matizen graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Novosibirsk State University and from the Film Studies Department at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Worked as a teacher of mathematics and as staff writer or freelance cinema viewer at different magazines and newspapers. He is the author of more than 1500 articles and two books about cinema. In 2003-2011 …
Sonia Lupher is a PhD student in the Film Studies program through the English department at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned a Master’s degree in Film Studies from Columbia University, where she held a research assistantship with the Women Film Pioneers Project under Dr. Jane Gaines. Her research interests are broadly concerned with film aesthetics through genre and mode, …
Alexander Prokhorov is a co-author (with Elena Prokhorova) of Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era(2017) and the editor of Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/viewing the 1960s (Pittsburgh Film Symposium, 2001). His articles and reviews have been published in Journal of Film and Video, Kinokultura, Russian Review, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Art of Cinema (Iskusstvo kino), and Wiener Slawistische Almanach.
Elena Prokhorova is Associate Professor of Russian at the College of William and Mary, where she also teaches in the Film and Media Studies program. Her research focuses on identity discourses in late Soviet and post-Soviet television and cinema. She is co-author (with Alexander Prokhorov) of the monograph Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era (2017). Her publications …
