Vera Koshkina

Collections Specialist, Art and Culture of Eastern Europe, Penka Rare Books
PhD, May 2017
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Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vera-koshkina/?originalSubdomain=de

Dissertation title: “On the Margins of Experiment: State Sponsorship of Radical Aesthetics in Soviet Cinema, 1960–1968”

 

 

Education: 

M.A. Russian Literature, University of Chicago, 2009
B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John’s College (Annapolis, MD), 2005

 

Areas of Interest:

  • Soviet and West European cinema
  • 19th and 20th century Russian literature
  • Russian and Soviet visual culture
  • Modernism and the visual arts

Awards:

 

  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant (Academic Year) 2013-2014
  • Abby and George O’Neill Graduate Research Travel Grant 2011, 2014
  • Maurice Lazarus Graduate Research Travel Award 2013