Alyssa DeBlasio

Alyssa DeBlasio is John B. Parsons Chair in the Liberal Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor of Russian at Dickinson College, where she also contributes to the Film Studies Program and Philosophy Department. She is a member of the Russian Guild of Film Scholars and Critics and serves as the editor of Brill’s book series on Contemporary Russian Philosophy. She has authored two monographs: The End of Russian Philosophy (Palgrave, 2014) and The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2019; Russian trans.: Academic Studies Press, 2020), which was short-­listed for the 2020 AATSEEL Best Book award in Cultural Studies. Together with Izolda Savenkova, she is author of the language textbook Про-движение: Advanced Russian Through Film and Media (Georgetown University Press, 2022).