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Theodora Kelly Trimble

  • Director, Center for Global Programs, Denison University

Courses Taught

  • First-year Russian
  • Vampire: Blood and Empire
  • Sci-Fi: East/West
  • Man and Superman: Superior Individual in Literature and Philosophy
  • Masterpieces of 20th Century Russian Literature

Dissertation

The Celebrification of Soviet Culture: State Heroes after Stalin, 2017

Employment Since Graduation

    Education & Training

  • PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2017
  • MA, Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan, 2011
  • Dual BA, Russian Studies (Russian language), Slavic and East European Studies, West Virginia University, 2009
Awards
Lillian B. Lawler Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2016-17)
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Research Grant (2015)
Working Group on Cinema and Television Travel Grant (2015)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2014-15, 2015-16)
Fulbright-Hays: Russian Teachers for the 21st Century (2014)
Representative Publications

Review of Mark Lipovetsky, Charms of the Cynical Reason: Tricksters in Soviet and Post- Soviet Culture. Slavic and East European Journal Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer 2012).

Review of Rezo Gigineishvili, Alisa Khmel'nitskaia, dir. Without Men [Bez muzhchin, 2011]. Kinokultura 36 (April 2012).

Review of Sergei Kal'varskii, dir. Martsefal', 2012. KinoKultura 40 (April 2013).

Entry for Konstantin Ershov, Georgii Kropachiov, dir. Vii, 1967. Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2. Ed. Birgit Beumers, Bristol: Intellect, 2013, 159-160.

Entry for Aleksandr Strizhenkov, dir. Liubov'-Morkov' (trilogy), 2007-2011. Directory of World Cinema: Russia 2. Ed. Birgit Beumers, 202-204.

Representative Conference Presentations

“Russian Television and Sex and the City On Screen.” Television in Europe Beyond the Iron Curtain. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitet, Erlangen, Germany. December 2013. 

“Thaw Cinema and the Typecast Star: Aleksandr Dem'ianenko as Shurik.” ASEEES, Boston, MA. November 2013. 

“Representations of Blood in The Vampire Diaries.” Blood Conference, Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. October 2012.

“Shattering Sexual Convention and Rules of Romance in Ugrešić’s Novels: “Bad Girl” Meets Bichette.” Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, OH. April 2012.

Research Interests
  • Russian popular culture
  • Soviet comedy film
  • Celebrity and stardom
  • Contemporary Russian cinema
  • Russian culture in America