Anastasiya听Osipova
- Assistant Professor
- RUSSIAN PROGRAM
Office: McKenna 233
Office hours:听Tuesday and Thursday, 5-6PM (McKenna 233 or on Zoom: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/6434616399)
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.
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
鈥淭he Case of the DOXA Four: A Year in the School of Political Prisoners,鈥 The Russian Review,
October 14, 2024 digital/ January 2025 print: 103-124.
鈥淭actile Communism: Keti Chukhrov鈥檚 Post-Soviet Dramatic Works and the Legacy of Soviet
Defectology,鈥澨Internationale Zeitschrift f眉r Kulturkomparatistik, 10 (2023): 65鈥82.
https://izfk.uni-trier.de/index.php/izfk/article/view/IZfK-Vol-10-Chukhrovs-Dramatic-Works-
Soviet-Defectology
鈥淭he Urbanites and the New Existentialism鈥 in听Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground
Culture,听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. "Zoe Beloff鈥檚听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).
Maria Galina, Communiques (New York: Cicada Press, 2023).
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 About 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