Research Interests:
Nonfiction film and media poetics, critical theory, socialist and postsocialist literature and cinema (especially Russophone and Eastern European), historical identity and memory
Education:
M.A. Comparative Literature, University College London (2019)
B.A. Liberal Arts, Concentration in Humanities, Soka University of America (2018)
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 February 2025.
“Against Observation: The Panoramic Legacy of Sergei Loznitsa.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 18, no. 3 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2024.2392338.
Review of Soviet Self-Hatred: The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia, by Eliot Borenstein. Slavic and East European Journal 68, no. 2 (2024).
Review of Ivan’s Land, directed by Andrii Lysetskyi. KinoKultura no. 81 (2023). http://www.kinokultura.com/2023/81UA_ivans-land.shtml.
Other writing:
“On Scammers and Being Scammed: The Tuner (2004).” Bright Wall/Dark Room, August 15, 2024. https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/08/15/the-tuner-2004/.
“Dreams and Ashes: Baqytgul Sarmekova’s To Hell with Poets.” Words Without Borders, April 16, 2024. https://wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews/dreams-and-ashes-baqytgul-….
Review of My Work, by Olga Ravn. Full Stop, December 27, 2023. https://www.full-stop.net/2023/12/27/reviews/loramaslenitsyna/my-work-olga-ravn/.
Conference Presentations and Talks:
“Živojin Pavlović’s Media Theory: Truncated Messages, Interrupted Dispatches, and History in Hajka (1977).” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention. Boston, MA: November 2024.
“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, New York, NY: April 2024.
“‘The house of a thousand windows’: Postmemory, Experience, and the Failure of Documentation.” American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV: February 2024.
Introduction and talkback presentation for Mark Donskoi’s The Rainbow as a part of the “Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans” film series. Yale University, New Haven, CT: October 2023.
“‘Mysterious Barren Lands’: The Panoramic Legacy of Arctic Documentary Films.” International Panorama Council Conference. Iowa City, IA: September 2023.
Honors and Awards:
MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Research Grant (2024)
Professional Activities:
Curator of the “World Documentaries Today” film series for the Yale Whitney Humanities Center (Fall 2024)
Graduate Student Assembly Representative, Department of Film and Media Studies (2023-2024)
Coordinator of the Labor and Film Working Group, Yale Whitney Humanities Center