Olga Kim specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Russian and Eurasian culture and literature with a research focus on modernism and art cinema, socialist modernity, and the imperial legacy in Russia and Eurasia.
Education & Training
- BA, Russian Language and Literature, Seoul National University, 2006
- MA, Russian Literature, Seoul National University, 2009
- MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2013
- PhD, Film & Media Studies and Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2019
Courses Taught
- Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced, and Fourth-Year Russian
- Russian Fairy Tales
- Introduction to Film
- History of Russian Film 1, 2
- Masterpieces of 19th-century Russian Literature
- Masterpieces of 20th-century Russian Literature
- Early Russian Culture
Representative Publications
“Imperial Fatigue: Somnabulants, Ghosts, and Monsters.” In Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context. Eds. Nancy Condee, Alexander Prokhorov, and Elena Prokhorova. 2020. Boston: Academic Studies Press.
“Cinema and Painting in Parajanov’s Aesthetic Metamorphoses.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema vol. 12, issue 1 (2018):19-36
Research Interests
- Soviet National Cinemas
- Early Soviet Avant-Garde
- New Media
- Central Asian Visual Culture