Lora Maslenitsyna

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Research Interests:

Nonfiction film and media poetics, socialist and postsocialist literature and cinema (especially Russophone and Eastern European), historical identity and memory, literary theory

Education:

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

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

Conference Presentations:

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)

Publications:

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.

Reviews:

Review of My Work, by Olga Ravn. Full Stop, December 2023. https://www.full-stop.net/2023/12/27/reviews/loramaslenitsyna/my-work-ol…

Review of Ivans Land, directed by Andrii Lysetskyi. KinoKultura, July 2023. http://www.kinokultura.com/2023/81UA_ivans-land.shtml.