Natalie Ryabchikova holds a PhD in Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. From 2004 to 2008 she was the film reviewer for the daily Russian Internet-newspaper Utro.ru and has worked as a translator and interpreter for the Moscow International Film Festival since 2005. She has written and translated a number of articles on early Russian and Soviet film history for Kinovedcheskie zapiski (Moscow) …
This April, Irina Anisimova received a PhD in Russian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh; she defended her dissertation “Heterotopia in Contemporary Russian Fiction” on November 19 2014. She also received a PhD in Comparative Literature (with the emphasis on African American literature) from the University of South Carolina. Next year, she will hold a postdoctoral position at Havighurst Center …
Bill Purse is Professor and Chair of the Guitar and Music Technology programs in Duquesne University’s Mary Pappert School of Music. Purse received his bachelor of music and master of music at Duquesne University, where he studied composition with Dr. Joseph Wilcox Jenkins at the undergraduate and graduate levels. While developing the music technology graduate and undergraduate programs at Duquesne, …
Beach Gray is an Interdisciplinary PhD candidate in the Film Studies Program through the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds an MA in Russian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh (2011) and a BA in Russian Studies from Williams College (2007). He has published in KinoKultura and Slavic and East European Journal. His …
Valeriia Gorelova is a graduate of the Department of Scriptwriting and Film Studies in the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). She is a senior research scholar in the historical-theoretical section of the Research Institute for Cinema Studies within the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK). She has worked as a film reviewer for the newspaper Moskovskii komsomolets and has published reviews, survey articles, and …
Khusein Erkenov is a scriptwriter, film director, and producer (in 1991 he founded his own production studio, Erkhus). In 1988 he graduated with honors from the Directing Department of the State Institute for Filmmaking (Sergei Gerasimov’s workshop) and directed his first film in 1990 (A Hundred Days Before the Command). Since then he has directed six feature films. He is …
Svetlana Ishevskaia is a film scholar. She graduated from the Department of Scriptwriting and Film Studies of the Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK) in 2005. From 2000 until 2013 she worked on the editorial board of the journal Kinovedcheskie zapiski. In 2008, together with Dar’ia Kruzhkova edited and provided commentary for a collection of texts by Dziga Vertov (Dziga Vertov: …
James Steffen is the Film and Media Studies Librarian at Emory University. He is also historian of Soviet cinema and recently published a book entitled The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). His current research interests include the Soviet film industry and the politics of nationality in Soviet/post-Soviet cinemas.
Katie Bird is a doctoral student in Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds BA degrees in Film Production and English from Loyola Marymount University. She earned her MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University. Katie’s research focuses on below-the-line production history, craft, and discourse alongside the social context of historical viewing practices. Her dissertation …
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. Elena’s publications have appeared in Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Kinokultura, Russian Journal of Communication, and in edited volumes.
