Olga Breininger-Umetayeva

Provisional Dissertation Title:

«Wonderland, Terrorland, Sonderland: Northern Caucasus as Liminal Timespace». 

Education: 

M.Phil. In Modern Languages (Russian & German), University of Oxford (distinction)
B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing, Gorky Literary Institute (summa cum laude)

Research Interests:

• Post-Soviet literature and culture;
• Northern Caucasus;
• Postcolonial studies vs. world-system analysis;
• Nationalism, nation-building and identity politics;
• Islam;
• Revolutions, protest movements;
• Terrorism and counter-terrorism;
• Energy politics and ethics;
• Middle Eastern studies;
• Emigration, exile and diasporas;
• Russian-American relationships.

 Publications: 

• "A scholarly look at 'thick' journals today: the crisis of the institution" in Russian Journal of Communication, 2014, No 1.
• "Deconstructing National Identity: a Case Study of the Russian Diaspora in Contemporary Germany" in НЛО, 2014, No. 127.
• "Mapping Macro- and Microchanges in Contemporary Slavic Studies: the Polemics over the 'Anthropological Turn" in 'Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye'in НЛО, 2013, No. 122.
• Этот смутный объект желания (в повелительном наклонении) in НЛО, 2013, No. 122.
• "Post-Colonialism in the Post-Soviet Space: Converging Literature and Ideology"
• "Banderlogs’ and ‘Network Hamsters’: the Language of Political Protest in Russia" on openDemocracy Russian, 2013
• Сквозь два десятилетия постсоветской литературы: Лина Данэм, предсказуемый постмодернизм, и Марта Кетро в рядах несуществующей русской беллетристики in Лиterraтура, 2015, No. 51.
• Суровое барокко: Новый исторический роман. О романах Захара Прилепина и Зулейхи Яхиной in Лиterraтура. 2015. No. 63.
• Постколониальная литература. Случай Всеволода Непогодина 

Awards 

• Long-listed for ‘Debut’ Literary Prize for the novel ‘There was no Adderall in the Soviet Union’, 2015;
• Priscilla McMillan Graduate Research Travel Grant (for fieldwork in Chechnya,  - North Ossetia and Georgia),
Davis Centre at Harvard University, 2015;
• Maurice Lazarus Travel Grant (for fieldwork in Dagestan and Chechnya), Davis Centre at Harvard University, 2014;
• Setchkarev Memorial Prize for best graduate essay, Harvard University, 2014;
• Alumni Award, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, 2013;
• Merle Fainsod Prize, Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, 2013;
• Research Grant, Brasenose College, University of Oxford, 2012;
• Participant of XI and XII Lipki Forums of Young Writers, 2011, 2012;
• Member of the Union of Writers of Russia since 2010;
• Winner of A. Filimonov's Literary Prize (for the long short story ‘Prizma’), 2009.

Resources

Page in «Журнальный зал»: http://magazines.russ.ru/authors/b/brejninger/
Project ‘The Caucasus Calling | for a revision’: http://thecaucasuscalling.com
Project ‘Pechorin’s Women’ www.pechorinswomen.com