{"id":4269,"date":"2021-07-30T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/marina-filipovic\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T16:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T20:15:56","slug":"marina-filipovic","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/marina-filipovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Marina Filipovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Education<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ph.D.<\/strong> Russian Literature and Film, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<li><strong>M.A.<\/strong>\u00a0 Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago<\/li>\n<li><strong>B.A.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Yugoslav and Serbian Literatures, University of Belgrade, Serbia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Previous Employment<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Department of Modern Languages &amp; Literatures, William &amp; Mary, VA (2019-2021)<\/p>\n<h5>Teaching and Research Interests<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My teaching at Bates College spans nineteenth-century to present-day Russia, covering all periods of Soviet culture, Russian language at all levels, as well as Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literatures, cultures, and film. My research encompasses Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet, Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literatures and film, with a particular focus on technology and gender, the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, the Soviet history of science.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Recent Publications\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5>Book contributions:<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cNeo-Noir after Yugoslavia: <em>The Fourth Man<\/em> and <em>A Balkan Noir<\/em>\u201d in <em>The Haunted Present: Slavic Neo-Noir Cinema and Television, <\/em>edited by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, and Rima Salys. Academic Studies Press, Film and Media Studies Series. Boston, 2026, 27-48.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Recent Book\u00a0Reviews<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna Batori, <em>The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe: Rape, Art, (S)Exploitation<\/em>. Edinburgh University Press. 2024. Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, No. 20, 2025\u00a0 DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.17892\/app.2025.00020.384\">https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.17892\/app.2025.00020.384<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ilana Shub Sharp, <em>Esfir Shub: Pioneer of Documentary Filmmaking<\/em>, Bloomsbury, 2022, <em>Slavic<\/em><em> Review<\/em>, Vol. 82, No. 2, Summer 2023, p. 567-568.<\/li>\n<li><em>Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet\/Russian Cinema: Styles, Characters and Genres Before and After the Collapse of the USSR<\/em>, eds. Birgit Beumers and Eug\u00e9nie Zvonkine, New York: Routledge, 2018, <em>Slavic Review<\/em>, Volume 79, Issue 4, Winter 2020, p. 886-888.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Interviews and Public Scholar Events:<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LPPzWCkT5CE\">Staging the Real of Power: NSK History and Continuity<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 A Conversation with Neue Slowenische Kunst artist Eda \u010cufer. Bates College Museum of Art, September 19, 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h5>Courses Taught at Bates College:<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>RUSS 102<\/strong>\u00a0 Elementary Russian II<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS 201<\/strong>\u00a0 Intermediate Russian I<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS 301<\/strong>\u00a0 Advanced Russian I<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS 313 \/ EUS 313<\/strong>\u00a0 Hard &amp; Soft Socialism: Literatures, Films, and Cultures of the USSR and Socialist Yugoslavia<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS s27\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 Myths and Legends in Russian Culture<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS 247 \/ EUS 247 <\/strong>\u00a0Contemporary Russia on Film<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS 317 \/ <\/strong><strong>EUS 317 \/ GSS 317<\/strong>\u00a0 Beyond Human: Cyborgs and Technology<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS 233<\/strong> <strong>\/ EUS 233<\/strong>\u00a0 Russian Myths and Legends<\/li>\n<li><strong>RUSS 259<\/strong> <strong>\/ EUS 259<\/strong>\u00a0 Against Happy Endings: Love in Russian Literature (Winter 2027)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1379,"featured_media":8416,"template":"","class_list":["post-4269","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-specific-20th-century-russian-literature","expertise-specific-gender","expertise-specific-neo-noir","expertise-specific-post-yugoslav-cinemas","expertise-specific-russian-avant-garde","expertise-specific-russian-film","expertise-specific-russian-media","expertise-specific-socialist-realism","expertise-specific-soviet-cinema","expertise-specific-soviet-history-of-science","expertise-specific-stalinism","expertise-specific-technology","expertise-specific-yugoslav-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8422,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/4269\/revisions\/8422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}