Lilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor
Contact
Phone: (217) 333-6157
Email: lilya@illinois.edu
Office: 3038 FLB, W 1-3
Homepage: http://www.complit.illinois.edu/lilya/Profile.html
Degree
Ph.D., University of California Berkley, 2000
Affiliated Faculty in
Unit for Criticism and Theory, Cinema Studies, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Major Interests
Soviet literature and film; film and critical theory; gender studies; nineteenth century novel; modernism.
Publications
Books and articles
- How the Soviet Man Was Unmade (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).
- "The Cultural Logic of Late Socialism," Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 3.2 (2009): 185-99.
- «Гонка вооружений, трансгендер, и застой: Волк и Заяц в кон/подтексте холодной войны» [The Arms Race, Transgender, and Stagnation: Wolf and Hare in the Con/Subtext of the Cold War], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, special issue on Soviet cartoons (Moscow, 2008).
- “Solaris and the White, White Screen,” in Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture, ed. Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger (Yale UP, 2008).
- “The Voice of Technology and the End of Soviet Silent Film: Grigorii Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s Alone,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema Vol. 1, number 3 (2007): 265-281.
- “Men Wanted: Female Masculinity in Sergei Livnev’s Hammer and Sickle,” Slavic and East European Journal Vol. 51, number 2 (2007): 229-246.
- “Forging Soviet Masculinity in Nikolai Ekk’s The Road to Life,” in Gender and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Russian Culture, ed. Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux (Northern Illinois P, 2006), 146-175.
- “Visual Pleasure in Stalinist Cinema: Ivan Pyr’ev’s The Party Card,” in Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside, ed. Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman (Indiana UP, 2005), 35-60.
- "How the Soviet Man Was (Un)Made" in Slavic Review,Vol. 63, Number 3 (Fall 2004), 577-596 .
Book reviews
- Keith A. Livers. Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s. In Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des Slavistes. Forthcoming 2009/2010.
- Eliot Borenstein, Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Culture and Society After Socialism). Slavic and East European Journal 53. 2 (Summer, 2009): 316-318.
- Rolf Helebust. Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution, in The Russian Review, January 2008 (67.1)
- Liderman, Yulia. Motivy “proverki” i “ispytaniia” v postsovetskoi kul’ture. In Slavic Review, 2008.
- Haynes, John. New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema. In Slavic and East European Journal, Winter, 2004 (48.4): 693-694.
Film Reviews
- Shakhnazarov, Karen. Ischeznuvshaia imperiia. In KinoKultura 22, October 2008.