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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Kate Tomashevskaya

Ph.D. Student
Kate Tomashevskaya
Email tomashev@usc.edu

Education

  • M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, 2023
  • M.A. Comparative Studies, with distinction, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2020
  • Exchange Programme, Arts, University of Helsinki, 2020
  • Certificate Gender Studies, Higher School of Economics, 2019
  • Certificate Museum Studies, University of Bremen, 2019
  • B.A. Russian Language and Literature, 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, Instructor, RUSS 120 Beginning Russian I , University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 08/2022 – 12/2022
    • Assistant Lecturer, Instructor, RUSS 150 Beginning Russian II, University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 01/2023 – 05/2023
    • Assistant Lecturer, Instructor, RUSS 220 Intermediate Russian III, University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 08/2023 – 12/2023
    • Assistant Lecturer, Instructor, RUSS 250 Intermediate Russian IV, University of Southern California, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 01/2024 – 05/2024

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    Kate Tomashevskaya is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at USC. Her academic interests focus on late twentieth-century Russian literature and visual culture. Her dissertation examines the early stages of the horror genre’s development in the former Soviet Union and early post-Soviet Russia from the 1980s through the 1990s. This research expands into a broader study of the history of the horror genre in Eastern Europe, particularly in Poland. Kate is a 2024-2025 Center for Ethnographic Media Arts (CEMA) Fellow. She is also a member of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Program, the Visual Anthropology Graduate Certificate Program, and the Digital Media and Culture Graduate Certificate Program.

    Research Keywords

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