Dina Khapaeva
Professor of Russian, Director of Russian Program
- School of Modern Languages
- ADVANCE IAC
Overview
Dr. Dina Khapaeva is Professor at the School of Modern Languages, the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research comprises Russian studies, death studies, cultural studies, historical memory, and intellectual history. Dr. Khapaeva authored six monographs, including The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture (The University of Michigan Press, 2017 (Russian translation «Занимательная смерть: развлечения эпохи антигуманизма», The New Literary Observer, 2020), Nightmares: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project (Brill, 2013), Portrait critique de la Russie: Essais sur la société gothique (Les éditions de Aube, 2012). Her books were reviewed by Cultural Critique, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, The Russian Review, The Slavonic and East European Review, Journal of Russian Communications, The New Literary Observer, The Polish Review, among others. Her numerous articles have appeared in journals including Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Social Research, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Le Débat, Merkur, Social Sciences Information, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Russian Literature. In 2016, she received an Invited Professorship at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Interests
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Russian
- History and Memory
- Language and Popular Culture
- Literature
Courses
- LMC-2823: Special Topics-Lit/Cult
- LMC-3202: Studies in Fiction
- RUSS-1250: Vampires International
- RUSS-1813: Special Topics
- RUSS-2001: Intermediate Russian I
- RUSS-3001: Advanced Russian I
- RUSS-3002: Advanced Russian II
- RUSS-3005: Russian for Herit Spkrs
- RUSS-3222: Russ 20th Cent Lit&Film
- RUSS-4300: Imperial Imagination
- RUSS-4500: Intercultural Seminar
- RUSS-6500: Intercultural Seminar
- RUSS-8804: Special Topics
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- “Trendy Monsters: The Nazis, the Perpetrator Turn, and Popular Culture”
In: New German Critique [Peer Reviewed]
Date: November 2021
Internet Publications
- Felix Groznyi
In: Novaya Gazeta
Date: September 2021
- gde tak vol'no dushit chelovek
In: Novaya Gazeta
Date: September 2021
- Zarubil okno v Evropu
In: Novaya Gazeta
Date: August 2021
- Сажающее средневековье
In: Novaya Gazeta
Date: August 2021