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UCLA / University of California, Los Angeles

Eastern Europe and Beyond: Cultural Studies / Social Technology

  • Blockchains and Web3 (Mellon Social Justice Initiative)

  • Storytelling and Business (forthcoming for Anderson School of Business, UCLA)

  • Health Humanities (seminar, co-taught with Rachel Lee)

  • Global Sex (co-taught with Anjali Arondekar, UCSC)

  • Race, Gender, and Sexuality (co-taught with Anjali Arondekar, UCSC)

  • Coding for Humanities

  • Digital Analysis of Literature: Tools and Techniques

  • Careers in the Humanities

  • Comparative Media Studies

  • History of Animation (Los Angeles, Moscow, and Tokyo)

  • Animation and Literature

  • History of the Recording Industry

  • American Popular Song before Rock and Roll

  • Music and the Internet

  • Social Networks and Storytelling

  • History of Russian Cinema

  • Russian Literature and World Cinema

  • War and Peace (monograph course: the novel and screen)

  • Russian Popular Culture Today (considerable music content)

  • Post-Soviet Cinema (seminar)

Eastern Europe and Global Contexts: Literary Foci

  • World Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages

  • World Literature: Middle Ages to 1700s

  • World Literature: Enlightenment to Modernity

  • Great Books of the World at Large (i..e, non-European texts)

  • Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

  • Twentieth-Century Russian Literature

  • The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel

  • Tolstoy's Novels

  • Literature and Revolution

  • Nabokov

  • Contemporary Russian Literature (seminar: much musical/cinematic content)

  • Post-Stalinist Literature (seminar: much musical/cinematic content)




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Audiovisual Emphases

  • History of Russian Cinema

  • Russian Contemporary Audio/Visual Culture

  • Literature and Revolution

  • The Russian Heroine

Linguistic or Literary Foci

  • Russian language (on all levels)

  • Survey of Russian Literature (year-long)

  • Russian Culture under the Czars

  • Twentieth-Century Russian Civilization

  • Dostoevsky and the Russian Idea

  • Dostoevsky and the West

  • Gogol

  • Chekhov and Turgenev

  • History of Russian Theatre

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