Lora Maslenitsyna
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 Ivan’s Land, directed by Andrii Lysetskyi. KinoKultura, July 2023. http://www.kinokultura.com/2023/81UA_ivans-land.shtml.