DSc in Philology, 

Professor at the University of Venice (Italy)

Education: 

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Odessa State University (1984)

PhD thesis:

Analytical Trends in Modern Soviet Prose and the Work of Yuri Trifonov in the 1960s-80s: the Problem of Typology and Poetics (1987)

Research interests:

Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture, Stalinism, socialist realism, Soviet national literatures, Russian and Soviet cinema, critical theory and history of Soviet culture.

Academic publications — over 250 publications.

Selected publications

Books (author, editor-compiler)

• State Laughter. Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022.
• Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020.
• “It's Just Letters on Paper…" Vladimir Sorokin: After Literature. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2018. In Russ.
• Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin: Institutions, Dynamics, Discourses. London, Anthem Press, 2018.
• Russian Literature Since 1991. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Scopus / Web of Science Publications

• “Building Stalinism: The Moscow Canal and the Creation of Soviet Space.” Slavic review, 2019, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 862–863.
• “Annushka Already Spilled the Butter.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019, no. 158, pp. 357–370.
• “The Art of Hatred: ‛Noble Fury’ and Violence in the Russian Culture of the World War II Period.” Russkaia Literatura, 2019, no. 3, pp. 217–228.
• “The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution.” Novyi mir, 2017, no. 12, pp. 183–189.
• “Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2017, no. 144, pp. 542–546.
• “Prigov and the Gesamtkunstwerk.” Russian review, 2016, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 209–219.