#  Olga Breininger-Umetayeva 

Teacher, Moscow Creative Writing School/Columnist, Druzhba Narodov

PhD, May 2019

 

 

 



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#### **Provisional Dissertation Title:**

«Wonderland, Terrorland, *Sonder*land: 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](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19409419.2014.886525)" in *Russian Journal of Communication*, 2014, No 1.
- "[Deconstructing National Identity: a Case Study of the Russian Diaspora in Contemporary Germany](http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2014/3/22b.html)" in *НЛО*, 2014, No. 127.
- "[Mapping Macro- and Microchanges in Contemporary Slavic Studies: the Polemics over the 'Anthropological Turn](http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2013/122/4b.html)" in 'Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye'in *НЛО*, 2013, No. 122.
- [Этот смутный объект желания (в повелительном наклонении)](http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2013/122/12b.html) 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](https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/olga-breininger/banderlogs-and-network-hamsters-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](http://literratura.org/issue_criticism/1158-olga-breyninger-skvoz-dva-desyatiletiya-postsovetskoy-literatury.html), 2015, No. 51.
- [Суровое барокко: Новый исторический роман. О романах Захара Прилепина и Зулейхи Яхиной in Лиterraтура](http://literratura.org/issue_criticism/1451-olgab.html). 2015. No. 63.
- [Постколониальная литература. Случай Всеволода Непогодина](http://novymirjournal.ru/index.php/projects/preprints/128-breininger)

#### **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](http://thecaucasuscalling.com/)  
Project ‘Pechorin’s Women’ [www.pechorinswomen.com](http://www.pechorinswomen.com/)



 

 

 





 

 

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