Dr Daria V. Ezerova

Daria V. Ezerova writes and teaches on the cinema and culture of post-Soviet Russia. She is currently completing a book, Derelict Futures, about how attitudes toward history after the collapse of the USSR are enfolded in representations of space and built environment in film. The way that art mediates thinking about the present and future is an abiding interest in her scholarship, which also takes in such eclectic elements as abandoned steel mills, theories of neoliberalism, and horror movies. A recipient of the Harriman Institute postdoctoral fellowship, she has been published in Slavic Review, Russian Review and Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. Her writing for a wider audience has appeared in KinoKultura, Apparatus and Senses of Cinema. Since 2017, she has been president of the Working Group on Cinema and Television of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Her childhood was spent between Moscow and the Carpathian Mountains in Western Ukraine during the first decade of capitalism in the former Eastern Bloc (think Britney Spears and the Spice Girls). Before coming to Cambridge, she taught at Vassar and Columbia, where she became a native of New York City by elective affinity.

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Sl15: Cultural Histories of the Present