Research Interests:
20th and 21st-century Russophone literature and culture
Poetry and form
Cultural sociology
Digital media studies
Late Soviet and post-Soviet intelligentsia discourse
Education:
M.Phil (2022) Yale University. Slavic Languages and Literatures. (Minor field: Comparative Literature)
M.A. (2019) Sungkyunkwan University. Russian Language and Literature. (Thesis: ““Aleksandr Blok’s Lyrical Drama Balaganchik and the Dialectic of Genre.”)
B.A. (2017) Sungkyunkwan University. Russian Language and Literature.
Publications:
Dissertation: “Digital Poetry and the Battle for Russia”
“The Vavilon Virtual Anthology and Digital Graphomania.” Journal article in preparation for submission to Slavic Review.
Review of Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989, by Penny M. Von Eschen (Duke University Press, 2022), Slavic and East European Journal, planned for 2025.
Conferences Presentations and Talks:
“Who Cares About Digital Haiku? The Great Divide and ‘The Garden of Forking Haikus.’” AATSEEL Annual Conference. Las Vegas, Nevada. February 2024.
“Where the Good Begins: A Study of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize.” BASEES Conference 2023. Glasgow, United Kingdom. March-April 2023.
“Social Prosody in Contemporary Russian Poetry.” ASEEES 54th Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. November 2022.
“Beyond the Borders of Languages: The Identity of the Displaced in Mikhail Pak’s Angels’ Dock.” ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention. New Orleans, LA. November 2021 (virtual).
Popova E. V., Kim Y. “Trudnosti ispolʹzovaniia koreiskimi magistrantami leksiko-grammaticheskikh modelei, aktualʹnykh dlia russkoi nauchnoi rechi, v produktivnykh vidakh rechevoi deiatelʹnosti (na primere literaturovedcheskikh tekstov)” Annual Conference of the Korean Association of Russian Language and Literature. Seoul, South Korea. November 2018.
Honors and Awards:
2023 MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University.
2023 University Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University.
2023 European Studies Council Fellows Award, Yale University.
2022 Diversity and Inclusion Travel Grant, ASEEES.
2022 Russian Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University.
2021-23 MacMillan Center International Conference Travel Grant, Yale University.
2020 Ronald Muirhead Byrnes Scholarship, Yale University.
2017-18 Shimsan Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University.
2016 Initiative for College of Humanities Research and Education Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University.
Professional Activities:
2024 The Certificate of College Teaching Preparation, Yale University.
2022-Present European Studies Graduate Fellow, Yale University.
2022-Present Graduate Affiliate at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University.
2022-23 Slavic Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Yale University.
2022 Summer Research Laboratory, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (virtual).
2021-24 Co-organizer of Yale Slavic Colloquium, Yale University.
2021-22 Graduate Professional Experience Fellow at Assessment and User Experience Research, Yale Library.
2020-21 Research Assistant for research initiative “Imagining Russian Hackers: The Myth of Men and Machines,” Yale University.