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Andrew Chapman

  • Director of Nationally Competitive Awards, Assistant Dean, University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Lead Editor of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Courses Taught

  • Russian language (beginning, intermediate, advanced)
  • Advanced Conversation and Communication through Jokes, Comedy, and Satire
  • 19th-20th Century Russian Literature
  • Narrating the City: Soviet Urban Culture and the 20th Century
  • Narrating the City: The Art of St. Petersburg (abroad)
  • History of Russian Film
  • Russian Myths and Legends
  • Sci-Fi East and West

Dissertation

Queuetopia: Second-World Modernity and the Soviet Culture of Allocation, 2013

Employment Since Graduation

  • Director of Nationally Competitive Awards, University of Texas at San Antonio (https://honors.utsa.edu/onca/)
  • Lead Editor of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (https://digitalicons.org/)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian and Director of Russian Language Abroad Program, Dartmouth College (2016-17)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, College of William and Mary (2015-2016)
  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College (2013-2015)

    Education & Training

  • PhD, Russian Literature, 2013
  • MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures (Russian Literature), University of Pittsburgh, 2007
  • BA, Russian, University of Rochester, 2004
Awards
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-14
Representative Publications

“Let there be Abundance! But Leave a Shortage of Something!: Distinction, Subjectivity, and the Brezhnev Era Culture of Scarcity.”  Slavic & East European Journal 61.3 (2017): 519-541.

“The Digital Queue: Flashmobs in Line, Online, and the New Aesthetics of Community Building.”  Digital Icons 17 (2017): 19-32.

“Car with a Movie Camera: Theorizing the Dash-cam, Cameraman Surrogates, and the Cameraman Caught Unaware.”  Digital Icons 15 (2016): 1-20.

 “Changing the Terms of Engagement: Recruiting and Politicizing the Cameraman and the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking in Recent Projects by Pavel Kostomarov, Aleksandr Rastorguev and Aleksei Pivovarov.” Digital Icons 11 (2014): 96-112.

"Trofeinost' and the Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Late Soviet Culture." Studies in Slavic Cultures 11 (2013): 24-49.

Performing 'Soviet' Film Classics: Tajik Jimmy and the Aural Remnants of Indian Cinema." Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 7.2 (2013): 227-242

Representative Conference Presentations

“From Ochered' to Ocherednost': Narratives of Queuing and Waiting in Late Soviet Culture.” (AATSEEL 2011)

“From Kul'turnost' to Trofeinost': The Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Stagnation Culture.” (AATSEEL 2012)

“The Last in Line: Narratives of Queuing and Waiting in Soviet Literature and Culture” (Cultural Studies Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh 2010)

“Locating Individual and Collective Subjectivities: Queuing and Second World Modernity in Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem” (Mid-Atlantic ASEEES Regional Conference 2009)

“Space and Portraiture in the Films of Larisa Sadilova” (ASEEES National Convention 2006)

Research Interests
  • Contemporary Russian and Soviet Film
  • Urban culture, crowd studies and theories of gueuing
  • Narratives of everyday life
  • Russian and Soviet Satire
  • Kitsch and camp in popular culture