Marina Filipovic

Visiting Lecturer in Russian

Associations

Russian

About

Marina Filipovic received her M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from University of Illinois at Chicago, with a specialization in Russian and Yugoslav literatures; and her Ph.D. in Russian literature and film from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Before joining the faculty at Bates in 2021, she was teaching Russian literature, film, and language courses at William & Mary. Marina’s teaching ranges from the nineteenth century to the present-day Russia, and across all periods of Soviet culture, including Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cultures.

Her research interests include Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literatures and film, technology, gender, the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, Soviet history of science, Yugoslav and post-YU literatures and film.

Courses Taught at Bates College:

RUSS 102 Elementary Russian II

RUSS 201 Intermediate Russian I

RUSS 301 Advanced Russian I

EUS/RUSS 313 Hard & Soft Socialism: Literatures, Films, and Cultures of the USSR and Socialist Yugoslavia

RUSS s27 From Baba Yaga to Putin: Myths and Legends in Russian Culture

EUS/RUSS 247 Contemporary Russia on Film

EUS 317/GSS 317/RUSS 317 Beyond Human: Cyborgs and Technology

EUS 233 / RUSS 233 Russian Myths and Legends

Expertise

20th century Russian literature, gender, post-Yugoslav cinemas, Russian avant-garde, Russian Film, Russian media, socialist realism, Soviet cinema, Soviet history of science, Stalinism, technology, Yugoslav cinema

Current Courses

Winter Semester 2026

Hard and Soft Socialism: Literatures, Films, and Cultures of the USSR and Socialist Yugoslavia

EUS 313 / RUSS 313

Was socialism and socialist art a uniform phenomenon across the USSR and Eastern Europe? The course focuses on the development of socialist cultures in the USSR and Yugoslavia following the Tito-Stalin split in 1948. While the USSR claimed the monopoly on Marxism, Yugoslavia constructed its image as…

Elementary Russian II

RUSS 102

This course, offered in the winter semester, is a continuation of RUSS 101 with an emphasis on acquiring all four language competencies. The course continues to foster building basic fluency and ability to read simplified passages in Russian. Students continue their immersion in Russian culture thro…

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