Selected Publications 

Books

• Stalingrad: Fedor Bondarchuk;(London: Intellect Books, 2022). [paperback and e-book versions].Part of the "KinoSputnik” series.

• The History Painters: Art, History, and the Making of Russian National Identity (under contract with Bloomsbury, London and New York, forthcoming 2023).

• Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism (Indiana University Press, 2012)
• A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2006)

Edited Volumes

• The Akunin Project: The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author (co-edited volume with Elena Baraban).  University of Toronto Press, 2021.
• Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe  (Indiana University Press, 2020)
• The City in Russian Culture (co-edited volume with Pavel Lyssakov). London:  Routledge, 2018.
• Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500-Present (with Willard Sunderland, Indiana University Press, 2012)
• Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema (with Zara Torlone, Indiana University Press, 2008)
• Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia (with Helena Goscilo, Indiana University Press, 2008)

Recent Articles

• “Caricatured Empire: Cold War Political Cartoons” in Joan Neuberger, Valerie Kivelson, and Sergei Kozlov, eds., Picturing Russian Empire (NY: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023).

• “The Great Patriotic Serial:  Shtrafbat [Penal Battalion], Historical Taboos, and the Beginnings of the New National Idea” in Sasha Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, and Rimgaila Salys, eds., Contemporary Russian Television (Boston:  Academic Studies Press, 2021): 48-75. 

•  “War, Cinema, and the Politics of Memory in Putin 2.0 Culture” in Anton Weiss-Wendt and Nanci Adler, eds., The Future of the Soviet Past (Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 2021): 170-92.

•  “The War Film and Memory Politics in Putin’s Russia” in David Hoffmann, ed., The Memory of the Second World War in the Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia (London: Routledge, 2021): 299-317.

• “Young Soldiers at Play:  The Red Army Soldier as Icon” in Marina Balina and Serguei Oushakine, eds., The Pedagogy of Images:  Early Soviet Children’s Books (University of Toronto Press, 2021):  445-466.

• “The Second World War, Soviet Sports and Furious Space Walks: Soft Power and Nation Branding in the Putin 2.0 Era” in Stephanie Dennison and Rachel Dwyer, eds., Cinema and Soft Power: Configuring the National and Transnational in Geo-Politics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021): 119-39.

• “Two Worlds:  Boris Efimov, Soviet Political Caricature, and the Construction of the Long Cold War” in Aga Skrodzka, Xiaoning Lu, and Kasia Marciniak, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2020): 519-541.  

• “On Russian Cinema Going West (and East):  Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad (2013) and Blockbuster History” in Andy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen Hutchings, eds., Transnational Russian Studies (Liverpool:  Liverpool University Press, 2020):  197-212.

• “Defenders of the Russian Land:  Viktor Vasnetsov’s Warriors and Russia’s Bulwark Myth” in Heidi Hein-Kircher and Lilya Berezhnaya, eds., Rampart Nations:  Bulwark Myths in East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019):  319-343. 

• “My Good Hans” in Rimgaila Salys, ed., The Russian Cinema Reader, Volume III.  (Boston:  Academic Studies Press, 2019):  344-361.

   

Online Articles

• "Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine" in Origins: Contemporary Events in Historical Perspective (June 2022):  https://origins.osu.edu/read/taras-shevchenko-poet-ukraine

• “History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus” in Origins:  Contemporary Events in Historical Perspective (February 2021).  https://origins.osu.edu/article/history-memory-and-art-protest-belarus.

•  “Top Ten Origins:  World War II Films” in Origins:  Contemporary Events in Historical Perspective (May 2019):  http://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/top-ten-origins-world-war-ii-films. 

• “Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview” in Origins:  Contemporary Events in Historical Perspective 10/11 (August 2017):  http://origins.osu.edu/article/russia-america-and-conspiratorial-worldview.