Current Book Project

The Revolution Will Be Fictionalized: Postmodern Politics and Radical Literature in Putin’s Russia

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“The Absolute Elsewhere: Pavel Krusanov and the Countercultural Sources of Russian Imperialism.” Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space. 3/2023. 255-289. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915237.

“Making Post-Soviet Counterpublics: The Aesthetics of Limonka and the National-Bolshevik Party.” Nationalities Papers 45, no. 2 (March 4, 2017): 182–205. doi:10.1080/00905992.2016.1266607.

“Russian Media in the 1990s, Fully Disclosed: Gore, Tabloids, and Countercultural Nationalism.” In Vinokour, Maya, ed., Media Culture of the Russian 1990s. Amherst College Press. Under review.

“Auteur Cinema Beyond the Iron Curtain: On the Relationship Between the French and Soviet New Waves.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. Under review.

“From Life Creation to Television: Nikolai Evreinov’s The Main Thing and Marcel L’Herbier’s La Comédie du Bonheur.” Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ). Under review.

Academic Reviews

Frederick H. White, B-2: Brikolazh rezhissera Balabanova 2. Nizhnii Novgorod: DEKOM, 2020. 488 pp. ISBN 978-5-89533-457-7. [B-2: Bricolage of the filmmaker Balabanov, second edition, revised and expanded]. Slavic Review 81, no. 4 (Winter 2022).

Bernsand, Niklas, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, eds. Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia. Eurasian Studies Library, 11. Leiden: Brill, 2018. The Russian Review. October 2020 (Vol. 79, No. 4).  684-85.

Fürst, Juliane, and Josie McLellan, eds. Dropping Out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. The Russian Review. April 2018 (Vol. 77, No. 2). 325-26.

Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen, and Rolf Werenskjold, eds. Media and Revolt: Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, no. 14, 2015, 211-5. 

Popular Press and Blogs

“The Eternal Adolescent Savenko: Eduard Limonov, the Hooligan of Russian Literature and Politics, Dies in Moscow at the Age of 77.”NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. April 6, 2020.