Ljudmila Bilkić holds a B.A. in German and History of Art and Architecture from Middlebury College, an M.A. in German Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, and is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of German. Her dissertation focuses on New Media works that challenge the definition of illegal migration within the imagined and consistently changing borders of Europe. Her …
Sergei Sychev is a journalist, film critic, and teacher. He is a graduate of the Journalism Department of Moscow State University. He is a regular contributor to Iskusstvo kino. Sergei has also published in such newspapers and journals as Izvestiia, Kul’tura, Rolan, Dosug i razvlechenia, Kinomekhanik, Action!, and others. He teaches at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (Moscow State University). Sergei …
Alexander Prokhorov is the author of Inherited Discourse: Paradigms of Stalinist Culture in Literature and Cinema of the Thaw (Akademicheskii proekt, 2007) 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 …
Maria Belodubrovskaya is Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She specializes in Stalin-era film history and aesthetics, has published articles in Cinema Journal, Slavic Review, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and KinoKultura, and is completing a book on the Soviet film industry under Stalin.
Olga Kim is a PhD candidate in Slavic and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, she is working on her dissertation on aesthetics and history in tableau cinema of the Soviet peripheries during Late Socialism. Her research interests also include the early Soviet avant-garde, New Media, and Central Asian cinema.
Tetyana Shlikhar is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Pittsburgh. She received her BA and MA in Philology, as well as PhD (Kandidat nauk) in Translation Studies from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). She did a research on drama translation as a Fulbright fellow at Binghamton University, SUNY in 2011-2012. …
Olga Mukhortova is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Film at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Olga holds her MA degree from the University of Pittsburgh (2013). She received her first specialist degree in Slavic Philology from the Samara Academy for the Humanities in Samara, Russia and the second specialist degree in Cultural Studies …
Chip Crane is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He also teaches theatre history at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD from the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh. His dissertation dealt with the relationship of the Blue Blouse amateur theatre movement to spatial practices in …
Theodora Kelly Trimble completed a double B.A. in Russian and Slavic & East European Studies at West Virginia University (2009). She received her M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Michigan (2011). She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests span a wide range of topics …
Elise Thorsen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a BA in Russian Studies from the College of William and Mary, and an MA in Russian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. This spring, she is defending her dissertation, “Territory and Empire in Early Soviet Poetry,” which deals …
