Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Postdoctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows
About
Ania Aizman is writing a book about anarchism in Russian culture. Based on archival research and oral histories with artists, writers, and activists, it finds missing links between the nineteenth-century anarchist movements, Soviet underground cultures, and contemporary collectives. Ania’s other research project focuses on contemporary theater in Russia and is based on interviews and performance and rehearsal observations conducted between 2014-2018. Her translations of plays by contemporary playwrights Mikhail Durnenkov, Mikhail Ugarov, and Elena Gremina are forthcoming from the Performing Arts Journal and Columbia University Press. An article exploring the anarchist aesthetics of Pussy Riot and the OBERIU is due out from Russian Review in January 2019. Ania has also published on trophy films, the New Drama movement, and the politics of Soviet children’s poems.
U-M Affiliations
- Michigan Society of Fellows
- Slavic Languages and Literatures
Fields of Study
- Russian literature and theater
- Political aesthetics in East and Central European cultures
- Contemporary Russian culture
- Literature and philosophy
Publications
"The Poor Rhymes of Hooligans"
"War in Everyday Life in Russia"
Translation: Are We at War Yet?
"The Secret Lessons of Soviet Children's Poems"
"How Many Empires Do You See? Trophy Films in the Soviet Union"
Book Review: The Biopolitics of Stalinism by Sergei Prozorov
Book Review: Soviet Theatre, A Documentary History, edited by Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky
