Elise Thorsen holds a PhD in Russian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. In her academic research, Elise specializes in twentieth-century Russian poetry and empire. Her work currently deals with the early Soviet avant-garde and their successive work and successors under Socialist Realism. Further, empire has often informed her notes and reviews on contemporary film. Since June 2016, she has …
Florence Helbing is a PhD student in Slavic literature. She has a professional background in digital media, advertising, and video game translation. Her research interests include Soviet Taylorism, technocratic utopianism in early Soviet literature and the ways in which contemporary digital technologies restructure conceptions of selfhood in their users today.
Kiun Hwang is a PhD candidate in Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh, working on her dissertation on aesthetics, history and politics of post-Soviet St. Petersburg landscape. My research interest include Catherine II, the early-twentieth century Petersburg aesthetics, museum studies, and urban studies.
Alyssa DeBlasio is John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of Russian at Dickinson College, where she also contributes to the Film Studies Program and Philosophy Department. She is a member of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Critics and serves as the editor of Brill’s book series on Contemporary Russian Philosophy. She …
David Pettersen is Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh where he also serves as Associate Director of the Film and Media Studies Program. His first book, Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France, was published by the University of Wales Press in 2016. He also recently co-edited a special …
John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh, and has also taught at Duke University, Colby College, and Carleton College. His research and teaching interests include German literature, philosophy, and culture of the 18th and 19th Centuries. He is the author of two monographs: Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century …
Ol’ga Shervud is a film critic and film journalist. She graduated from the Department of Journalism of Leningrad State University in 1981 and is the author of numerous articles on culture and the arts in journals published in Leningrad/Petersburg and Moscow, as well as online. She worked in Lenfilm Studios (1974-1982), on the editorial board of several journals (1982-2014), and …
Alena Solntseva is an associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Contemporary Arts at the Russian Humanities University (Moscow). She has a doctorate in art history and is a member of the Guild of Film Scholars and Film Journalists, a member of the Academy of Cinema Art (Nika), a member of the Steering Committee of the Guild of …
Oksana Sarkisova, PhD, is a Research Fellow at Blinken OSA Archive (www.osaarchivum.org), Co-Founder and Head of Visual Studies Platform at Central European University (vsp.ceu.edu), and Director of Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Budapest (www.verzio.org). Her fields of research are cultural history, memory and representation, film history, amateur photography, and visual studies. She authored Screening Soviet Nationalities: Kulturfilms from …
Nikhil Thomas Titus is a Ph.D. student in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests focus on themes of low-cost film exhibition, stardom, urban infrastructure, piracy, and migrant narratives. He is a documentary filmmaker and an active contributor to the Community Media education space in India.
