RusFilm Biography

Vladimir Padunov
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Associate Director of the Film Studies Program
Faculty, Center for Russian and East European Studies and the Program for Cultural Studies
University of Pittsburgh

Padunov received his B.A. from Brooklyn College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Hunter College, as well as in Germany and Russia.

Together with Nancy Condee, he directed the Working Group on Contemporary Russian Culture (1990-93), supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. His work has been published in the US (The Nation, October, WideAngle), the UK (Framework, New Left Review, New Formations), and Russia (Voprosy literatury, Znamia, Iskusstvo kino). His areas of research include Russian visual culture, narrative history and theory, film history.

Recent publications

• "Views of the Present As Visions of the Past," Iskusstvo kino 10, 1996;
• "'Large Loose Baggy Monsters': The Poetics of Excess in Contemporary Russian Culture" in Russian Literature of the XX Century: Directions and Tendencies (Ekaterinburg: Ural State Pedagogical University, 1996);
• "History and Identity in Recent Russian Cinema" in Beyond Perestroika: Jews and History in the Global Village (NY: The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, 1995).
• Dostoevsky's "The Demons" and the Form of Tendentious Narration (1995).
• "Makulakul'tura," with Nancy Condee, Russian Culture in Transition (Stanford Slavic Studies, 1993)
• "Perestroika Suicide: Not by bred Alone," with Nancy Condee (Russian Culture in Transition, Stanford Slavic Studies, 1993)