About

Marina Filipovic (she/her она/её) received her M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from University of Illinois at Chicago, with a specialization in Russian and Yugoslav literatures; and her Ph.D. in Russian literature and film from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Before joining the faculty at Bates in 2021, she was teaching Russian literature, film, and language courses at William & Mary. Marina’s teaching ranges from the nineteenth century to the present-day Russia, and across all periods of Soviet culture, including Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cultures.

Her research interests include Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literatures and film, technology, gender, the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, Soviet history of science, Yugoslav and post-YU literatures and film.