Ekaterina Tarasova
Education
- MA Comparative Studies, with distinction, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2024
- BA Literary Studies (Major), History of Philosophy (Minor), with distinction, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2022
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
Ekaterina Tarasova is a third-year PhD student in the Slavic Department and the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on pre-revolutionary and early Soviet cinema and interwar Soviet literature, with particular attention to the experiments between the avant-garde and socialist realism in the 1920s–1930s. She is especially interested in the transnational dimension of Soviet film culture—its distribution and reception in Europe and the United States, and the collaborations between Soviet and foreign cultural practitioners. Her work also engages with Soviet print and visual culture, adaptation studies, censorship, and museum studies. Before coming to USC, she studied the Odessa School writers—primarily Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov—focusing on their co-authorship and the textual history of their novels, and completed a master’s thesis on the satirical journal Krokodil (Crocodile) and its mediation of the Soviet literary process from its founding in 1922 to the First Writers’ Congress in 1934. She has extensive experience in archival research, as well as editorial work for Arzamas Academy, a major Russian media project dedicated to cultural history.
Research Keywords
Early cinema, Soviet literature, Mass culture, Transnational circulation of Soviet films, Soviet-foreign cultural collaborations, Co-authorship, Periodicals, Adaptation studies, Censorship, Museum studies