RusFilm Biography

Nancy Condee
Director of the Graduate Program for Cultural Studies
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Pittsburgh

Nancy Condee's undergraduate and graduate work was done at Columbia, Brown, and Yale Universities, with research semesters at Leningrad State University, Moscow State University, and the Gor'kii Institute of World Literature. She has worked as a consultant for US and British cultural exchanges, festivals, and projects, including the Edinburgh Festival (UK), Public Broadcasting Service (Frontline), the Library of Congress, the San Francisco Film Festival, National Film Theatre (UK), and the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Together with Vladimir Padunov, she directed the Working Group on Contemporary Russian Culture (1990-93), supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.

Her work has appeared in scholarly and popular publications in the US (The Nation, Washington Post October), Russia (Iskusstvo kino, Znamia, Voprosy literatury, Rodnik), and the UK (New Formations, Framework. New Left Review). Her research area is contemporary (post-1964) Russian culture, with an emphasis on film, literature, and popular culture (Russian tattoos, the women's public baths, mumiyo).

Recent Publications

• "Uncles, Deviance, and Ritual Combat: The Cultural Codes of Khrushchev's Thaw." The Khrushchev Era: A Reappraisal. Ed. Abbott Gleason and William Taubman. New Haven: Yale UP, in press.
• Endquote: Literary Sots-Art and Soviet Grand Style (Northwestern UP, 2000) with Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko
• "The Dream of Well-Being." Article on contemporary Russian film industry. Sight and Sound (UK) 7.12 (December 1997): 18-21.
• Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth-Century Russia. Nancy Condee, ed. Bloomington/London: Indiana UP and British Film Institute, 1995.
• "The Relentless Cult of Novelty, or How to Wreck the Century: Rethinking Soviet Studies." Beyond Soviet Studies. Ed. Daniel Orlovsky. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995. 285-304.