Olga Kim is a PhD candidate in Slavic and Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, she is working on her dissertation on aesthetics and history in tableau cinema of the Soviet peripheries during Late Socialism. Her research interests also include the early Soviet avant-garde, New Media, and Central Asian cinema.

Olga Mukhortova is a Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Film at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Olga holds her MA degree from the University of Pittsburgh (2013). She received her first specialist degree in Slavic Philology from the Samara Academy for the Humanities in Samara, Russia and the second specialist degree in Cultural Studies …

Theodora Kelly Trimble completed a double B.A. in Russian and Slavic & East European Studies at West Virginia University (2009).  She received her M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Michigan (2011). She is a PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.  Her interests span a wide range of topics …

Elise Thorsen is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a BA in Russian Studies from the College of William and Mary, and an MA in Russian Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. This spring, she is defending her dissertation, “Territory and Empire in Early Soviet Poetry,” which deals …