Lilya Kaganovsky, Assistant Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Cinema Studies
Ph.D., University of California Berkley, 2000

(217) 333-6157
lilya@uiuc.edu
Office: 3038 FLB

Major interests: Soviet literature and film; film and critical theory; gender studies; nineteenth century novel; modernism.

Publications:

• How the Soviet Man Was Unmade (under contract, University of Pittsburgh Press).
• “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.
• “Solaris and the White, White Screen,” in The Russian Visual Documents Reader, ed. Joan Neuberger and Valerie Kivelson (forthcoming from Yale UP).
• “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 .

For vita and courses taught please see: http://www.complit.uiuc.edu/lilya/