Trevor Wilson

Trevor Wilson is a third year PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his B.A. in French and Russian at the University of Pittsburgh (2008). His research interests include Russian Modernism, Russian religious philosophy, poetry, and queer theory.

Красная империя: Перезагрузка

English 17-ый ежегодный симпозиум российского кино «Красная империя: Перезагрузка» пройдет в Университете Питтсбурга с понедельника 4 мая по субботу 9 мая 2015 года. Вечерние просмотры будут проходить в кинозале «Мелвуд» Питтсбургских кинематографистов (Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ Melwood Screening Room). В следующем году Российская Федерация «отметит» 25 лет со дня распада Советского Союза (25 декабря 1991 года). В последние годы существования СССР (в Горбачевский …

Tetyana Shlikhar

Tetyana Shlikhar is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Pittsburgh. She received her BA and MA in Philology, as well as PhD (Kandidat nauk) in Translation Studies from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). She did a research on drama translation as a Fulbright fellow at Binghamton University, SUNY in 2011-2012. …

Ekaterina Turta

Ekaterina Turta is in her first year of the PhD program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.A. in Russian Philology from Tyumen State University in 2009. She also holds an MA degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The scope of her research interests …

Olga Kim

Olga Kim is a PhD student in Slavic and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a BA and MA in Russian Literature from Seoul National University. Her research interests include post-Stalinist cinema on the peripheries (Ukraine, Georgia, and Central Asia), New Media, and early Soviet avant-garde.

Mark Best

Mark Best is a Lecturer in English and Film Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. He has taught film and literature courses in subjects including new media, the Western and superhero genres, world film history and analysis, American film history, and John Ford. His research interests include the American superhero genre and gender in the …

Drew Chapman

Drew Chapman (PhD, Russian Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh) is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Russian Department at Dartmouth College. He is currently working on his first monograph, titled Queuetopia: Allocating Culture/Imagining Abundance, which focuses on second-world cultural production of the Soviet period and how it was constructed through discourses of …

Olga Klimova

Olga holds a Ph.D degree in Russian Literature and Culture from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh, with subspecialization in Cultural Studies, Film Studies, and Russian and East European Studies. Native of Belarus, she received her Specialist Degree in Cultural Studies from Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus, her MA in Popular Culture from …

Theodora Kelly Trimble

 Theodora Kelly Trimble completed a double B.A. in Russian and Slavic & East European Studies at West Virginia University (2009).  She received her M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from University of Michigan (2011).  She is a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Pittsburgh.  Her interests span a wide …