Alexander Prokhorov teaches Russian culture and film at College of William and Mary. His research interests include Russian visual culture, genre theory, and film history. He 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, …

Anton Dolin is a Russian journalist, film critic and scholar. He graduated from the Russian division of the Department of Philology at the University of Moscow in 1997 and completed his graduate studies at the Institute for World Literature (Russian Academy of Sciences) in 2000. He started his journalistic career at radio station Ekho Moscow, where he worked as a …

Lecturer University of Pittsburgh Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Gerald McCausland teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Russian language program. He holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., Russian), Middlebury College (BA, Political Science; MA Russian) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (MA, German). His publications include articles on Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Pelevin, …

Trevor Wilson is a third year PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his B.A. in French and Russian at the University of Pittsburgh (2008). His research interests include Russian Modernism, Russian religious philosophy, poetry, and queer theory.

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. …

Ekaterina Turta is in her first year of the PhD program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.A. in Russian Philology from Tyumen State University in 2009. She also holds an MA degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The scope of her research interests …

Olga Kim is a PhD student in Slavic and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a BA and MA in Russian Literature from Seoul National University. Her research interests include post-Stalinist cinema on the peripheries (Ukraine, Georgia, and Central Asia), New Media, and early Soviet avant-garde.

Mark Best is a Lecturer in English and Film Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. He has taught film and literature courses in subjects including new media, the Western and superhero genres, world film history and analysis, American film history, and John Ford. His research interests include the American superhero genre and gender in the …

Drew Chapman (PhD, Russian Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh) is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Russian Department at Dartmouth College. He is currently working on his first monograph, titled Queuetopia: Allocating Culture/Imagining Abundance, which focuses on second-world cultural production of the Soviet period and how it was constructed through discourses of …

Olga holds a Ph.D degree in Russian Literature and Culture from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, with subspecialization in Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Russian and East European Studies. Native of Belarus, she received her Specialist Degree in Cultural Studies from Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus, her MA in Popular Culture from …