Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film

Contributors

311 José Alaniz is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle, and author of Comics and Comic Art in Late/Post-Soviet Russia. His research interests include death and dying, disability studies, cinema, eco-criticism, and comics studies. Brian James Baer is Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Kent State University. He has published a number of articles on post-Soviet culture and is author of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity (2009) and editor and translator of No Good without Reward: Selected Works of Liubov Krichevskaia (forthcoming). Helena Goscilo, Professor and Chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University, writes primarily on gender and contemporary cul­ ture in Russia. Her book-length publications since 2000 include Vzry­ voopasnyi mir Tat’iany Tolstoi; Culture in the 1990s (Special Issue of 20th Century Literature); Gender and National Identity in 20th Century Russian Culture (with Andrea Lanoux); Poles Apart: Women in Modern Polish Culture (with Beth Holmgren); Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (with Tatiana Smorodinskaya and Karen Evans-Romaine), and Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (with Stephen M. Norris, Indiana University Press, 2008). Her current projects include Fade from Red: Screening the Cold War ExContributors 312 · Contributors Enemy during the Nineties (with Bożenna Goscilo); a volume on glamour and celebrities (with Vlad Strukov); a special journal issue devoted to the mirror in Russian and Soviet culture; and augmentation of the Web site Stalinka (with Susan Corbesero). Seth Graham is a lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He has published articles and chapters on literature, film, and humor in the Russian Review, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Studia Filmoznawcze, and in several essay collections. Yana Hashamova is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at The Ohio State University. She is also Associate Faculty member of the Departments of Comparative Studies, Film Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Mershon Center for International Security. She is author of Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film and has published numerous articles in the areas of Russian film, Russian and West European drama, comparative literature and the arts, critical theory and gender studies in journals such as the Russian Review, the Slavic and East European Journal, Canadian Slavonic Papers, the Communication Review, Consumption, Markets, and Culture, among others. She is currently working on her second monograph , Screening Trafficking: Prudent or Perilous?, as well as a volume of essays entitled Women in War, and a cluster of articles for Aspasia (both edited with Helena Goscilo). Mark Lipovetsky is Associate Professor of Russian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado–Boulder. He is the author of several books on Russian literature and culture, including Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos (1999), Modern Russian Literature: 1950s–1990s (authored with Naum Leiderman), and Paralogies : Transformation of (Post)modernist Discourse in Russian Culture of the 1920s–2000s. He is editor, with Marina Balina, of Dictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers since 1980, and, with Marina Balina and Helena Goscilo, of Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Wondertales. Lipovetsky’s current research focuses on cultural discourses of violence in Soviet and post-Soviet culture. Contributors · 313 Alexander Prokhorov is Associate Professor of Russian Culture and Film at the College of William and Mary. Author of Inherited Discourse: Stalinist Tropes in Thaw Literature and Cinema, he has published many articles and reviews in the Slavic Review, the Russian Review, the Slavic and East European Journal, and Kinokultura. His research interests include Russian visual culture, genre theory, and film history. Elena Prokhorova is Assistant Professor of Russian at the College of William and Mary, where she teaches in the Russian, Film, and Cultural Studies programs. Focusing on identity discourses in late Soviet and post-Soviet television and film, her publications have appeared in the Slavic Review, SEEJ, KinoKultura, and various edited volumes and encyclopedias. Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Associate Professor of Russian at Middlebury College, is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture and author of Konstantin Sluchevsky: Untimely Poet, as well as articles on contemporary Russian film. She currently is working on a monograph about radio theater and an advanced level textbook on contemporary culture. Vlad Strukov teaches Russian literature, media, and film at...