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Biography
In 2021, I began my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, "Figurations of the Arctic in Russian Cinema, 2010 - Present". In 2020, I obtained my PhD in Russian Studies from the University of Manchester, and my PhD thesis examined representations of the provinces in recent Russian film. From this research, I have contributed articles to scholarly publications including Film Studies, The Oxford Research Encylopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Communication, Slavic and East European Journal, and The Routledge Companion to European Cinema. Prior to this, I gained an MA in French and Francophone Studies from UCL (Distinction) and a BA in French and Russian from the University of Manchester (First Class with Distinction in Spoken French and Spoken Russian).
Teaching Summary
In the academic year 21-22 and 22-23, I taught:
- MLAC2199: Post-Soviet Film and Identity
- MLAC2194: Screening Russia: Film and Society from the Tsars to Putin
- MLAC3053: Dissertation in Slavonic Studies
- NATS4001: Synoptic Module in Liberal Arts
Research Summary
My Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, "Figurations of the Arctic in Russian Cinema, 2010-Present" investigates how Arctic is imagined in contemporary Russophone cinemas. It also examines how… read more
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Current Research
My Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship project, "Figurations of the Arctic in Russian Cinema, 2010-Present" investigates how Arctic is imagined in contemporary Russophone cinemas. It also examines how these cinemas construct the region's relationship to the broader Arctic, which has concurrently experienced a filmmaking boom. The project therefore contributes to the scholarship in World Cinema studies, Area Studies (Arctic and Russian), Critical Indigenous Studies, and the Environmental Humanities more broadly.
I am currently completing a monograph based on this research titled Russophone Arctic Cinemas: Imaginaries of the Russian North in Contemporary Film. I have produced three chapters on Arctic Indigenous film and media in The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar Geographies (Manchester University Press), Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic (Wesleyan University Press), and Contemporary Imaginaries of the Circumpolar World (UCL Press), all forthcoming this year. In 2023, I published an article on 'Maappa and the Ungovernable Female Protagonists in Sakha Cinema' in Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe.
Past Research
My PhD research focused on representations of the provinces in contemporary Russian cinema, and I was awarded my PhD from the University of Manchester in 2020. From this research, I have published on the topics of ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality in Russophone and Central Asian cinemas in Film Studies, The Routledge Companion to European Cinema, Slavic and East European Journal, The Oxford Research Encylopedia in Race, Ethnicity and Communication, and Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture (forthcoming).
Future Research
I am interested in Indigenous filmmaking and creative industries, world cinema, and transnational film theory.