participants

Elena Baraban, Assistant Professor of Slavic at the University of Manitoba, has published on crime novels, gender, and Soviet literature.  Her current research examines Soviet films about World War II.

Christopher Caes, Assistant Professor of Slavic at the University of Florida, specializes in Polish literature, film, and culture.

Andrew Chapman, a graduate student in Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh, has worked as co-organizer of GOSECA and designed posters for film conferences.

Vitaly Chernetsky, Assistant Professor of Slavic at Miami University of Ohio, writes on contemporary Ukrainian and Russian literature.  He is the author of Mapping Postcommunit Cultures (McGill Queens UP, 2007).

Susan Corbesero, UCIS Visiting Scholar and Research Associate of CREES at the University of Pittsburgh, focuses her research on political dictatorship, visual culture, and gender.  She is a co-constructor of the website Stalinka, which contains more than 500 digital images of Stalin.

Lucy Fischer, Professor of English and Director of Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, has written widely on film.  Two of her best-known monographs are Cinematernity: Film, Motherhood, Genre (Princeton UP, 1996) and Shot/Countershot: Film Tradition and Women’s Cinema (Princeton UP, 1989).

Elena Gapova, Director of the Center of Gender Studies at European Humanities University in Minsk/Vilnius, writes on gender in Central Europe. She has authored and edited several volumes, including Women on the Side of Europe (Central European UP, 2003).

Helena Goscilo, Professor of Slavic at the University of Pittsburgh, publishes primarily on Russian culture and gender.  She currently is completing Fade from Red—co-written with Bożenna Goscilo—which analyzes celluloid images of the ex-Cold War enemy in American and Russian film from 1990-2005.

Jonathan Harris, Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh and Editor of the Russian & East European Series for the University of Pittsburgh Press, is the author of Subverting the System: Gorbachev’s Reform of the Party’s Apparat 1986-1991 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) and The Split in Stalin’s Secretariat 1939-1948 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). 

Yana Hashamova, Associate Professor of Slavic at the Ohio State University, specializes in film and culture.  She is the author of Pride & Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film (Intellect, 2007) and the co-organizer of this conference and its counterpart at OSU.

Beth Holmgren, Professor of Slavic at Duke University, has written extensively on both Russian and Polish literature and culture.  Co-editor of Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture (Slavica, 2006), she is finishing a monograph on the Polish stage actress Helena Modjeska, under contract with Indiana UP.

Olga Klimova, a graduate student pursuing a PhD in the Slavic Department at the University of Pittsburgh, specializes in film and gender.

Michelle Kuhn, a graduate student in the Slavic Department at the University of Pittsburgh, is writing her dissertation on city architecture in Soviet and Russian film and contributing an article to a volume on Russian celebrities co-edited by Vladimir Strukov and Helena Goscilo.

Andrea Lanoux, Associate Professor of Russian at Connecticut College, works in both Polish and Russian culture, focusing on gender issues.  She is the co-editor of Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture (Northern Illinois UP, 2006).

Mark Lipovetsky, Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is an internationally recognized specialist in postmodernism who publishes on a broad range of topics.  His best-known monograph is Russian Postmodernist Fiction (M.E. Sharpe, 1999).

Irina Makoveeva, Mellon Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, works primarily on Soviet and Russian film, with an emphasis on adaptations and remakes.  Her recent article in Slavic and East European Journal (Summer 2007) examines post-Soviet women’s films.

Barbara McCloskey, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Artists of World War II (Greenwood P, 2005) and George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936 (Princeton UP, 1997).

Giuseppina Mecchia, Associate Professor of French & Italian and current Director of Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of L’écrivain et la communauté: Maurice Blanchot et la politique de 1932 à 1968. (Rodopi, 2007).

Tatiana Mikhailova, Lecturer in Russian at the University of Colorado at Boulder, teaches gender and contemporary culture.  Author of ironic poetry and prose, she currently is completing an article on Oksana Robski for the volume on celebrities edited by V. Strukov and H. Goscilo.

Joanna Niżyńska, Assistant Professor in the Slavic Department at Harvard University, is currently working on a monograph titled The Glaring Identity of ‘Now’: Trauma, Memory, and the Quotidian in the Works of Miron Białoszewski.

Stephen Norris, Assistant Professor of History at Miami University of Ohio, is the author of A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity 1812-1945 (Northern Illinois UP, 2006) and co-editor of Preserving Petersburg (Indiana UP, 2007).

Elżbieta Ostrowska, formerly of Łődź University in Poland, now teaches film at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.  Her recent publications include Women in Polish Cinema (Berghahn Books, 2006), co-written with Ewa Mazierska.

Alexander Prokhorov, Assistant Professor of Russian at William and Marcy College, works in film, culture, and language.  His recent monograph, Inherited Discourse: Paradigms of Stalinist Culture in the Literature and Film of the Thaw (2007), was published in St. Petersburg.

Elena Prokhorova, Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William & Mary, specializes in (post-)Soviet television and film. Her articles have appeared in Slavic Review and thematic volumes.  She is the translator of Svetlana Vasilenko’s Durochka [Little Fool, Northwestern UP, 2000].

Oleg Riabov, Professor of philosophy at the State University of Ivanovo in Russia, writes on gender, national identity, graphics, and war rhetoric.  His latest volume, co-written with Andrei de Lazari (2007), analyzes graphic representations of Poles by Russians and vice versa.

Robert Rothstein, Professor of Slavic & Judaic Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, publishes on a variety of topics in linguistics and folklore.  He is the co-author of Polish Scholarly Prose (Slavica, 1981).

Stephanie Sandler, Professor of Slavic at Harvard University, has published widely on poetry, gender, and Pushkin.  Her latest book, Commemorating Pushkin: Russia’s Myth of a National Poet (Stanford, 2004), examines the cult of Pushkin in Russia.

Irina Sandomirskaja, Professor of Cultural Studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School of the University College of South Stockholm (Södertörns högskola), Sweden, is the author of A Book about the Motherland (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, 2000).