Slavic Studies

Research Interests Photography, photographic theory, and Nonconformist art in the Soviet and Post-Soviet space , Ontology and epistemology of photography and its interrelation with state power, historical and contemporary, Theory of memory and the image in visual art and literature , Art and art-activism in the context of contemporary Eastern European culture , Questions of objectivity and subjectivity in literature, visual art, and film , Technology and philosophy of music of the Russian and Soviet avant-garde , Postmodernist Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature , Influence of Soviet avant-garde film on the French New Wave