Gerald McCausland
PhD Candidate in Russian Literature and Culture
Gerald McCausland holds degrees from Middlebury College (BA, Political Science; MA Russian) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (MA, German). His research interests include contemporary Russian culture and critical theory, with particular emphasis on post-Soviet subjectivity and its role in the formation of national identities. His publications include articles on Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Pelevin, and Andrei Platonov, and he is currently working toward completion of his PhD dissertation: The Post-Soviet Condition: Cultural Reconfigurations of Russian National Identity, at the University of Pittsburgh.