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Alexander Prokhorov

  • Professor, College of William and Mary

Courses Taught

  • Dostoevsky's Major Novels
  • Introduction to Women's Studies
  • Russian Cinema: "The Most Important Art"
  • Russian Media Culture
  • World Cinema before Television

Dissertation

Inherited Discourse: Stalinist Tropes in Thaw Culture, 2002

Employment Since Graduation

2008-to the present Associate Professor, College of William and Mary

2002-2008 Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary

    Education & Training

  • Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Slavic Languages & Literatures, 2002
  • Ph.D. Certificate (Cultural Studies), 2002
  • Ph.D. Certificate (Film Studies), 2002
  • M.A., University of Pittsburgh, Slavic Languages & Literatures, 1994
  • B.A., Moscow State University. Double Major in Applied Linguistics and English, 1987.
Awards
2012 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence
2008 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, College of William and Mary
2008 Alumni Fellowship Award, College of William and Mary
Faculty Honor Roll, Student Government Board Award for Outstanding Service to Students at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh.
Letter of Commendation from Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs for Outstanding Work with Students, University of Pittsburgh.
Representative Publications

Film and Television Genres of the Late Soviet Era.  Co-authored with Elena Prokhorov.  NY/London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

“Un/Taming the Unruly Woman: from Melodramatic Containment to Carnivalistic Utopia” (co-authored with Elena Prokhorov). Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to the Blasphemous.  Eds. Yana Hashamova, Beth Holmgren and Mark Lipovetsky.  NY: Routledge, 2016.  30-49.

“Visualizing St. Petersburg: Using Documentary Production in a Short Term Study Abroad Program to Enhance Oral Proficiency, Media Literacy, and Research Skills.” (co-authored with Jes Therkelsen). Journal of Film and Video 67.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2015): 112-125.

“Russian and Soviet Adventure Film.” Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2.  Ed. Birgit Beumers.  Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2014.

“She Defends His Motherland: The Myth of Mother Russia in Soviet Maternal Melodrama of the 1940s.” Embracing Arms: Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War. Ed. Yana Hashamova. Budapest: Central European UP, 2012. 

“Public Sphere: Film Studies and Civil Society”. Iskusstvo kino/Art of Cinema 4( 2011): 56-60.

“From the Red Screen to the Multiplex [Russia].” Senses of Cinema 58 (2011) (co-authored with Elena Prokhorova) 

“The Myth of the “Great Family” in Marlen Khutsiev’s Lenin’s Guard and Mark Osep’ian’s Three Days of Viktor Chernyshev.” Eds. Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2010. 29-50.

“Three Buratinos: The Evolution of the Soviet Film Hero.” The Club of Small Media Heroes. Eds. Maria Mayofis, Ilya Kikulin, Mark Lipovetsky. Moscow: New Literary Review (NLO), 2008. 153-180.

"Springtime for Soviet Cinema: Re/Viewing the Sixties." Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Film Symposium, 2001.

Research Interests
  • Contemporary Russian cinema
  • Film Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Gender Studies