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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Ekaterina Tomashevskaia

Ph.D. Student
Ekaterina Tomashevskaia
Email tomashev@usc.edu

Education

  • M.A. Comparative Literature, Higher School of Economics, 2020
  • Exchange Programme Comparative Literature, University of Helsinki, 2020
  • Certificate Gender Studies, Higher School of Economics, 2019
  • Certificate , Universität Bremen, 2019
  • B.A. Russian, St. Petersburg State University, 2017

  • Other Employment

    • Junior Researcher, Collection Manager, Vladimir Nabokov House Museum in Saint-Petersburg , 2017-2018
    • Supervisor of Undergraduate Student Projects, Digital Humanities Centre, Higher School of Economics, 2019-2020
    • Assistant Lecturer, RUSS 120 Beginning Russian I , University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 01/1970-01/1970
    • Assistant Lecturer, RUSS 150 Beginning Russian II, University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 01/1970-01/1970
    • Assistant Lecturer, RUSS 220 Intermediate Russian III, University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 01/1970-01/1970
    • Assistant Lecturer, RUSS 250 Intermediate Russian IV, University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 01/1970-01/1970

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Kate Tomashevskaya is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at USC. She is a member of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program, the Visual Anthropology Graduate Certificate Program, and the Digital Media and Culture Graduate Certificate Program. Kate’s academic interests revolve around early and late twentieth-century Russian literature and visual culture. Her dissertation explores the early stages of the horror genre’s development from the 1980s through the 1990s in the former Soviet Union and Poland. This research interest expands into a broader study encompassing the history of the horror genre in Eastern Europe.

    Research Keywords

    Eastern European cinema; Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; horror films; Russian modernist and dissident literature; visual culture, visual anthropology, cultural history