Lora Maslenitsyna

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Title: 
Graduate School Student
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)
 
Fellowships and Awards:
 
MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Research Grant (2024)
 
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 To Hell with Poets, by Baqytgul Sarmekova. Words Without
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Review of My Work, by Olga Ravn. Full Stop, December 2023. https://
 
Review of Ivan’s Land, directed by Andrii Lysetskyi. KinoKultura, July