Sera Passerini is a recent graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in Russian and Political Science. She now works at Pitt’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies as an administrative and program assistant.
Eleanor Soekõrv earned her M.A. in Russian Studies and History at the University of Edinburgh. She is now a graduate student in the Slavic Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
Oleg Sulkin is a film critic and journalist. He graduated from Moscow State University (History and Theory of Arts). He is a member of the Russian Union of Filmmakers and of Guild of Film Scholars and Critics. He worked at the magazine Sovetskii Ekran (Soviet Screen) and as aneditor-in-chief of the Soviet Film Monthly magazine. For 14 years he worked …
Ekaterina Barabash was born in Kharkov (present-day Ukraine). She graduated from the Philological Department of Moscow State University. Shortly after graduating she began writing about culture and cinema for a number of journals and newspapers. She has published in Megapolis-Ekspress, Obshchaia gazeta, Nezavisimaia gazeta, Vechernii klub, Vek. She was head of a department in the national Kul’tura channel. She currently …
Jinying Li is an assistant professor of Film and Media Studies in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on media theory and culture in East Asia. Her essays on Asian cinema, animation, and digital media have been published in Film International, Mechademia, The International Journal of Communication, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Asiascape, and Camera Obscura. …
Charles Exley is associate professor of Japanese Literature and Film and Associate Director of the Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include modern and contemporary Japanese literature, popular musical performance in the twentieth century, Asakusa opera, and film. He is the author of Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature and co-editor of the …
Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at the University of Oxford. His research interests include contemporary American and European cinema, French literature and critical theory. He is the co-editor (w. Daniele Rugo) of James Benning’s Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration (Edinburgh UP, 2018). His most recent monograph, The Feel-Bad Film (Edinburgh UP, 2015), investigates a number of contemporary …
Svetlana Khokhriakova graduated from the State Theatrical Institute (GITIS) and completed her graduate work in the Russian Academy of Theatrical Arts (RATI). She is a member of the National Academy of Cinematic Arts “Nika,” as well as of the Experts Commission of the Guild of Film Scholars and Film Critics. She is a member of the Union of Filmmakers, Union …
Gerald McCausland is an Associate Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute where he has taught since October 2017. He holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., Russian), Middlebury College (BA, Political Science; MA Russian) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (MA, German). His publications include articles on Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Pelevin, and Andrei Platonov as well …
Tetyana Shlikhar is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Pittsburgh. She received her MA and PhD in Translation Studies from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), as well as MA from University of Pittsburgh (2016). She did research on drama translation as a Fulbright fellow at Binghamton University, SUNY in 2011-2012. …
