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Anastasiya Osipova is scholar of Soviet and contemporary Russian and Ukrainian cultures, with a focus on materialist aesthetics. Her first book,听Survival and Mobilization: The Genre Memory of Soviet Prison Writing听explores听inter-generational aesthetic influence among political prisoners from 1920s to 2020s.听

In addition to her academic work, she is active as a writer, translator, and publisher of contemporary art and poetry in Russia and Ukraine. In 2013 she co-founded Cicada Press, an imprint committed to publishing formally experimental Eastern European writing.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Russian and Eastern European twentieth and twenty-first-century culture; Soviet theory and materialist aesthetics, their influence on Russian literature of the 1920s-1960s, and their afterlives in contemporary Eastern European political art and culture; Historical Poetics; prison writing; feminism; post-classical anarchism; history of Soviet pedagogical experiments.

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PUBLICATIONS

鈥淒OXA and the Strategies of Non-Melancholic Confinement鈥� (forthcoming)

鈥淭actile Communism: Keti Chukhrov鈥檚 Post-Soviet Dramatic Works and the Legacy of Soviet Defectology,鈥� Internationale Zeitschrift f眉r Kulturkomparatistik, 10 (2023): 65鈥�82.

鈥淭he Urbanites and the New Existentialism鈥� in Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture, edited by Mark Lipovetsky, Ilja Kukuj, Toma虂s Glanc, Maria Engestro虉m, and Klavdia Smola. New York: Oxford University Press (2021)

鈥淭he Forced Conversion of Varlam Shalamov,鈥� The Los Angeles Review of Books (July 2019).

鈥淭he End of The Soviet Baroque: Historical Poetics in Olesha鈥檚 Envy and Tynianov鈥檚 The Wax Person,鈥� Transcultural Studies: A Journal in Interdisciplinary Research, vol.13, (2017): 2.

鈥淥ccupying the Dream Factory. 鈥淶oe Beloff鈥檚 A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood,鈥� The Brooklyn Rail (November 2015).

鈥淗aunted Realism. On Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art,鈥� Texte Zur Kunst (June 2015).

鈥淒ifficult Facts: Esfir Shub and the Problem of Realism.鈥� The Brooklyn Rail (September 2011).

EDITORIAL AND TRANSLATION WORK

Keti Chukhrov, Collected Dramatic Works (forthcoming from Cicada Press).

Leonid Schwab,听Everburning Pilot听(New York: Cicada Press, 2022).

Lida Yusupova,听The Scar We Know听(New York: Cicada Press, 2021).

Pavel Arseniev,听Reported Speech听(New York: Cicada Press, 2018).

Roman Osminkin,听Not A Word 蜜糖直播 Politics!听(New York: Cicada Press, 2014).

Circling the Square: Maidan and Cultural Insurgency in Ukraine听(New York: Cicada Press, 2014).

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages听

Modern Languages Association

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., New York University

M.A., New York University

B.A., University of Pennsylvania

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