Erin Alpert
Degree: B.A., Global Studies, College of William and Mary,
2007
Email: era17@pitt.edu
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Irina Anisimova
Email: ila4@pitt.edu
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Hilary Brevig
Degree: B.A., Russian, Reed College, 2006
Email:
heb20@pitt.edu
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Andrew
Chapman
Degree: B.A., Russian, University of Rochester, 2004
Research Interests: contemporary Russian culture, Russian and
Soviet Film
E-mail: ahc12@pitt.edu
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Alyssa DeBlasio
Degrees: M.A., Russian
Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2006; B.A., Philosophy and
Russian Area Studies, Villanova University, 2003.
Research Interests: Russian intellectual history; History of Russo-Soviet philosophy; Contemporary intellectual culture; Russian and Soviet film; Slovak and Czech film.
Courses Taught: Masterpieces of 19th Century Russian Literature; Elementary Russian; Advanced Russian; Russian Fairy Tales.
Representative Publications:
- "Sovremennye napravleniia v neklassicheskikh epistemologiiakh." Epistemologiia i
filosofiia nauki 1 (forthcoming Jan. 2010).
- Darajen Omirbaev's Shuga (film review). KinoKultura 21 (July 2008).
http://www.kinokultura.com/2008/21r-shuga.shtml
- "The New-Year Film as a Genre of Post-War Russian Cinema." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 2.1 (January 2008): 43-61.
- “Choreographing Space, Time, and Dikovinki in the Films
of Evgenii Bauer.” The Russian Review. (October 2007):
671-92.
- “Chto sluchilos' s ‘filosofskim bumom’?: Izuchenie rossiiskoi
filosofii v kontekste amerikanskoi slavistiki.” Vestnik
RKhGA 8.1 (May 2007): 218-224.
- “Russkoe litso, russkaia ideia: ‘Natasha’ Valentina Rasputina.”
Mir i slovo V. Rasputina. Moscow and Irkutsk: Irkutsk
UP, 2007: 104-108.
- Sergei Karandashov’s The Wanderer (Film Review).
KinoKultura (Jan. 2007).www.kinokultura.com.
- Vera Storozheva's Greek Holidays (Film Review). KinoKultura (July 2006).www.kinokultura.com
- "Narration and Ritualization in the Icons of Medieval Rus'.”Studies in Slavic Cultures V (April 2006): 56-73.
- Tania Detkina's The Rascal (Film Review).KinoKultura(October 2005).www.kinokultura.com>.
E-mail: ajd31@pitt.edu
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Julie Draskoczy
Degree: B.A., Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University, 2002
Research Interests:
GULag Society, Life Writing, Samizdat, Criminality,
Soviet-Yiddish Culture, Stalin's White Sea Canal, Propaganda Film, Russian/East
European Animation
Conference Participation:
"Sex Roles Revealed: The GULag as Gender Laboratory,"
Columbus, Midwest Slavic Conference, 2006. "Crime and Enslavement: The Tattooed
Subject in Soviet Russia and Ancient Greece," Milwaukee, Archival Bodies
Conference, 2006. "The Time and Place of Death: Walter Benjamin's Theory of
Allegory and the Evolution of the Russian Short Story," Salt Lake City, AAASS,
2005. "Religious Dualism in Kievan Rus': Varangian Influence on Death Rituals in
the Kievan Crypt Paterikon," Columbus, Midwest Slavic Conference, 2005.
Representative Publications:
The House by the Salty Lake.
Film review: www.kinokultura.com, Jan. 2006.
Joseph Brodsky: A Personal Memoir.
Book review: Slavic and East
European Journal, Winter 2005.
E-mail: jsd14@pitt.edu top
Olga Klimova Email: vok1@pitt.edu top
Michelle Kuhn Email: mlk18@pitt.edu top
Dawn Seckler
Degree: Colby College B.A., 1998; University of Pittsburgh, M.A., 2001
Research Interests: contemporary Russian culture, Russian and Soviet Film;
Representative publications and conference presentations: The
Suit. Film Review Kinokultura.com Oct. 2003 ; "The Absence of Historical Time in Dostoevskii's Besy." Studies in Slavic Culture; "Landscape, with Hero." Translation of Evgenii Margolit.; "Constructive Cine-Art:
The Film Posters for Battleship Potemkin, 1905 and Man With a Movie
Camera," Povestvovatel'naia struktura v tvorchestve Abdykalykova: otsutstvie istoricheskogo vremeni, logotsentricheskikh modelei, i patriarkhal'nogo
golosa, "Sexy Stalin: The Eroticization of the Leader's Image," "Balabanov's Brother and Brother 2: Post-Soviet Stalinist Socialist Realism"
Courses Taught: 19th Century Russian Literature; 20th Century Russian Literature; Fairy Tales; Vampires: Blood and Empire; Recitations second-semester of beginning Russian
E-mail: dasst125@pitt.edu
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Elise Thorsen Degree: B.A., Russian Studies, College of William and Mary, 2006 Email: ent7@pitt.edu top
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