Teaching and Service
At Leeds I teach the following courses:
MA Film Research Methods
MA Dissertation in Film Studies
“Cinema in the Digital Era”
“Russian New(s) Media”
“Russian Cinema: Cultural Symbols and Symbolic Structures”
“Gender Identity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia”
“Postcommunist / Postmodernist Identities”
“Not by Bread Alone: Everyday Culture under the Soviet Regime”
“From Icons to iPods: Approaches to Russian Culture”
I also contribute to the teaching of the following MA courses:
Core Module in World Cinemas
“Dialogues with Hollywood”
and here is a list of some other courses I taught at Leeds and other institutions
“Russian 19th and 20th Century Literature in Translation”
“Russian 20th Century Novel”
“Dostoevsky: the Major Novels”
I am a member of the following professional organizations:
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
SSEES (University College London) Film Research Group
Leeds Popular Cultures Research Group
I serve as a reader on MA and doctoral committees
I serve as external expert for the following journals and funding agencies:
International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
Celebrity Studies
Region
New Cinemas
UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)