About the contributors
- About the contributors
Henriette Cederlöf is a Slavist specialising in film studies. She recently defended her doctoral dissertation, Alien Places in Late Soviet sf: The Unexpected Encounters of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films, published by the Stockholm Studies in Russian Literature series.
Maria Engström is a Senior Lecturer in Russian at the School of Humanities and Media Studies at Dalarna University, Sweden. Her publications include articles on the Orthodox Church and Russian politics, the Russian utopian imagination and imperial aesthetics in contemporary Russian literature and art. Her current research examines the Post-Soviet right-wing intellectual milieu and explores cultural manifestations of identity in contemporary Russia.
Yvonne Howell is Professor of Russian and International Studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Apocalyptic Realism: The Science Fiction of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1994), as well as articles on the intersections between scientific and literary culture in the former Soviet Union. She is currently curating a new anthology of previously untranslated Russian and Soviet sf stories.
Sofya Khagi is Associate Professor of Russian literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her publications include Silence and the Rest: Verbal Skepticism in Russian Poetry (2013) and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian poetry and contemporary Russian and Baltic literatures and cultures. She is working on a monograph on Victor Pelevin.
Muireann Maguire lectures in Russian at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Stalin’s Ghosts: Gothic Themes in Early Soviet Literature (2012) and translator of Red Spectres: Russian Twentieth-Century Gothic-Fantastic Tales (2012).
Eva Näripea is Director of Film Archives of the National Archives of Estonia, senior researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts and co-editor of Baltic Screen Media Review. She has published widely on spatial representations in Estonian cinema, histories of Eastern European sf film and reflections of neoliberalism in recent Estonian cinema.
Andrei Rogatchevski is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at the University of Tromsø, Norway. His latest books include Filming the Unfilmable: Casper Wrede’s ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’ (2014), with Ben Hellman, and Punishment as a Crime? Perspectives on Prison Experience in Russian Culture (2015), with Julie Hansen.
Matthias Schwartz is a research associate at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin (ZfL). Recent publications include essays on the debate about genre sf in Soviet culture, on space in popular Soviet science journals of the 1950s and 1960s and on occult aspects of soviet sf.
Evgenii Tsymbal is a film historian and a prize-winning filmmaker (including a 1989 BAFTA for Defense Counsel Sedov and a 2003 Nika Award for Dziga and His Brothers) [End Page 295] who has worked with Larisa Shepitko, Eldar Ryazanov, Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Tarkovsky. He compiled a book on Stalker’s lead actor Aleksandr Kaydanovsky (2002; in Russian) and has edited two volumes on Tarkovsky (2008 and 2014; in Russian). [End Page 296]
