Publications
Books and book chapters (2000 – present)
Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russian Culture: Shocking Chic. London: Routledge, 2010. (co-edited with Professor Helena Goscilo, Ohio State University.) You can listen to my interview about the book for BBC Russian Service here. And this is a publication on Eurovision and Russian celebrity culture by BBC World Service based on an interview with me.
The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Russia. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2010. (co-authored with Professor Robert Saunders, State University of New York at Farmingdale.)
in Contexts, Subtexts and Pretexts: Literary Translation in Eastern Europe and Russia. Ed. by B. Baer, John Benjamin, 2011.
“The Forces of Kinship: Timur Bekmambetov’s Night / Day Watch film trilogy”
In Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film, ed. by H. Goscilo and Y. Hashamova, Indiana University Press, 2010.
“Cycles, Calculus and Synergies”
in To Look and to Look: Documentos del Sol, ed. by R. G. Valverde, Santander, Spain: Esete punto publishers, 2009.
“A Journey Through Time: Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark and Theories of Mimesis”
In Realism and Audio-Visual Media, ed. by L. Nagib and C. Mello, London: Palgrave, 2009.
“Russia’s Internet Media Policies: Open Space and Ideological Closure”
In Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals, edited by B. Beumers, S. Hutchings and N. Rulyova, London: Routledge, 2009.
“Virtualization of Space and Self in Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972)”
In Tarkovsky, edited by N. Dunn, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008.
Cul’tura ‘Post’: At the Crossroads of Cultures and Civilisations, Voronezh UP, 2004.
The Problem of National Identity and Principles of Cross-Cultural Communication, Voronezh UP, 2001.
The Problem of National Identity in Literature and Humanities of the 20th century, Voronezh UP, 2000.
The Problem of National Identity in Culture and Education in Russia and the West, Voronezh UP, 2000.
Articles in Professional Journals and Media Outlets (2004 – present)
I am the principal editor of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
“Being Russian in London” (with Ilona Vonogradova), BBC Russian Service, 20 June 2011.
“Eurovision: Balance of the Commonplace and Irony” (with Ol’ga Smirnova), BBC Russian Service, 10 May 2011.
“Russian Celebrities at Home and Abroad: United under Putin”
(with Helena Goscilo) in Celebrity Studies, Volume 2, Issue 2. March 2011. pp. 209-213.
“Digital Switchover, or Digital Grip: Transition to Digital Television in the Russian Federation”
in International Journal of Digital Television, Volume 2, Issue 1. January 2011. pp. 67-87.
“Racism on the Rise: Why Have Russia’s Racist Attacks Gone Unchecked for so Long” [tv programme], Al Jazeera ‘Inside Story‘, 10 December 2010.
“Soviet Office Dramas: El’dar Ryazanov’s Office Romance“ [radio programme] BBC4 ‘Front Row’, 8 Sept. 2010.
“Digital Citizenship: E-Deliberation, Democracy and the Future of the Discipline” [Interview with Prof. Stephen Coleman], in Digital Icons, Issue 3, July 2010.
“Nemesis or Mimesis? The Theme of Retribution in Contemporary Russian Cinema“ [Cluster of Articles]
in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Vol. 4, Issue 2, July 2010, pp. 135-171.
“Possessive and Superlative: On the Simulation of Democracy and Nationhood in Russia”
In The Russian Cyberspace Journal, Vol. 1, Oct. 2008, pp. 31-39.
“Digital (After-)Life of Russian Classical Literature”
in Notes from the Virtual Underground: Russian Literature on the Internet Special Issue of Kultura: Russian Cultural Review, an online information service of the Research Centre for East European Studies at Bremen University. February 2009, pp. 9-10.
“Flash backs: Examining New Russian Blockbusters and Politics of Entertainment”
In External Economic Relations published by International Institute of Sustainable Development Problems with United Nations Association of Russia, 34-2, June 2008, pp. 76-81.
“Discussing Internet Culture” [radio and web podcast of a round table with Linor Goralik and Olia Lialia], BBC Russian Service, 20 Oct. 2007
“Video Anekdot: Auteurs and Voyeurs of Russian Flash Animation”
In Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, SAGE Publication, UK, 2-2, July 2007.
“Russian Scary Dolls Pick an Award in Italy”, BBC Russian Service, 11 June 2007.
“The Return of Gods: Andrei Zviagintsev’s Vozvrascheniie [The Return]”
In Slavic and East European Journal, 51-2, June 2007, pp. 334-360.
“The Performativity of Fear: Andrei Bakhurin’s Flash Animation”
In Static, Vol. 1, October, 2005, pp. 129-151.
“Masiania, or Reimagining the Self in the Cyberspace of Rusnet”
In Slavic and East European Journal, 48-3, 2004; pp. 438-461.
Commissioned Encyclopaedia Work
Various entries for
Directory of World Cinema: Russia. Ed. by B. Beumers; Bristol: Intellect, 2011.
Routledge Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian Culture
Ed. by T. Smorodinskaja, H. Goscilo and K. Evans-Romaine; London: Routledge, 2006.
Reviews
Digital Stages: Exploring Technology in Performing Arts [interview with festival organizers and festival review], in Digital Icons, Issue 5, May 2011.
Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses, by Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener (2010) New York, London: Routledge, in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, Volume 8, Issue 2, November 2010.
From Vocation to Function: Exhibitions of Digital Art in London in 2010, in Digital Icons, July 2010.
Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace, by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain (eds) (2010) The MIT Press, in Digital Icons, July 2010.
Inna Evlannikova and Sviatoslav Ushakov’s Belka and Strelka. Star Dogs
In KinoKultura: New Russian Cinema, Issue 30, Jan. 2010.
Natal’ia Ivanova’s Robin
In KinoKultura: New Russian Cinema, Issue 27, Jan. 2010.
Vladimir Toropchin’s Il’ia Muromets and the Nightingale-Robber
In KinoKultura: New Russian Cinema, Issue 22, Oct. 2008.
Alexander Proshkin’s Trio
In KinoKultura: New Russian Cinema, Issue 3, Apr. 2004.
Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema
by R. Bird (London: Reaktion Books, 2008); In Slavonica, 2008.
East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe
Ed. IRWIN (London: Afterall Books, distr. by the MIT Press, 2006); In SEEJ, Sept. 2007.
Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism
By C. Kiaer (The MIT Press. 2005); In SEEJ, June 2007.
Ilya Kabakov’s “The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment”
By B. Groys (London: Afterall Books; distrib. by the MIT Press. 2006); In SEEJ, June 2007.
Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image
By S. Hutchings (L., N.Y.: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004); In SEEJ, 49-4, 2005.
Translations
“Zigzagged Path: Conrad, Clocks and Politics of Modernism” by R. Stevenson, Voronezh, 2001.
“A Russian American: Interview with Anthony Swo” by L. Yashenko in “Fotomagazin” Journal, Moscow, 2000.