Anastasiya Osipova
Assistant Professor
Russian Program

Office: McKenna 233
Office hours:听Tuesday, 3-4PM on

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.

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.

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 About Politics!听(New York: Cicada Press, 2014).

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

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages听

Modern Languages Association

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., New York University

M.A., New York University

B.A., University of Pennsylvania