#  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



 

 

 





 

 

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