Lora Maslenitsyna

 

Nonfiction film and media poetics, socialist and postsocialist literature and

cinema (especially Russophone and Eastern European), historical identity

and memory, literary theory

 

 

M.A. Comparative Literature, University College London (2019)

 

B.A. Liberal Arts, Concentration in Humanities, Soka University of America (2018)

 

 

“The Fragile Promise of Making Oneself Heard: Cultural Paradigms of Queer

Russophone Nonfiction Cinema from 2013-2022,” Criminalized Again:

Culture(s) of LGBTQI+ in Search for Freedom, Harriman Institute at

Columbia University (2024)

 

“‘The house of a thousand windows’: Postmemory, Experience, and the

Failure of Documentation,” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and

East European Languages (AATSEEL) Conference, Las Vegas, NV (2024)

 

“‘Mysterious Barren Lands’: The Panoramic Legacy of Arctic Documentary

Films,” International Panorama Council Conference, Iowa City, IA (2023)

 

 

MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Research Grant (2024)

 

 

“National Subjectivity and the Commitment to Queer Visibility: Audible

Discourses in Children 404.” The New Russian Documentary: Reclaiming

Reality in the Age of Authoritarianism, edited by Anastasia Kostina and

Masha Shpolberg, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2024.

 

 

Borders, April 2024. https://wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/dreamsand-

ashes-baqytgul-sarmekovas-to-hell-with-poets-lora-maslenitsyna/.

 

Review of My Work, by Olga Ravn. Full Stop, December 2023. https://

 

Review of Ivan’s Land, directed by Andrii Lysetskyi. KinoKultura, July

2023. http://www.kinokultura.com/2023/81UA_ivans-land.shtml.