Dina Khapaeva

Director of Russian Program, Professor of Russian

Member Of:
  • School of Modern Languages
  • ADVANCE IAC
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Overview

Dr. Dina Khapaeva is Professor at the School of Modern Languages, the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research comprises Russian studies, death studies, cultural studies, historical memory, and intellectual history. Dr. Khapaeva authored six monographs, including The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture (The University of Michigan Press, 2017 (Russian translation «Занимательная смерть: развлечения эпохи антигуманизма», The New Literary Observer, 2020), Nightmares: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project (Brill, 2013), Portrait critique de la Russie: Essais sur la société gothique (Les éditions de Aube, 2012). Her books were reviewed by Cultural Critique, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, The Russian Review, The Slavonic and East European Review, Journal of Russian Communications, The New Literary ObserverThe Polish Review, among others. Her numerous articles have appeared in journals including Communist and Post-Communist StudiesSocial ResearchAnnales: Histoire, Sciences SocialesLe DébatMerkurSocial Sciences InformationThe South Atlantic Quarterly, Russian Literature. In 2016, she received an Invited Professorship at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Interests

Research Fields:
  • Literary and Cultural Studies
  • Russian
Issues:
  • History and Memory
  • Language and Popular Culture
  • Literature

Courses

  • LMC-2823: Special Topics-Lit/Cult
  • LMC-3202: Studies in Fiction
  • RUSS-1250: Vampires International
  • RUSS-1813: Special Topics
  • RUSS-2001: Intermediate Russian I
  • RUSS-3001: Advanced Russian I
  • RUSS-3002: Advanced Russian II
  • RUSS-3005: Russian for Herit Spkrs
  • RUSS-3222: Russ 20th Cent Lit&Film
  • RUSS-4300: Imperial Imagination
  • RUSS-4500: Intercultural Seminar
  • RUSS-6500: Intercultural Seminar
  • RUSS-8804: Special Topics

Additional Information

Joined Faculty In 2012

Selected
Grants:
  • 2006–2009: Grants from the J.D. and C.T. McArthur Foundation to Smolny Collegium for the projects Reforming History Education in Contemporary Russia ($200,000) and Reforming Social Sciences Education in Contemporary Russia ($450,000)

  • 2007–2009: Two grants from the Ford Foundation to the Smolny Collegium for the development of research and teaching in the domain of Human Rights ($350,000)

  • Spring 2016 – Visiting Professor at Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

  • 2014 – 2016 – Dean’s Distinguished Researcher Award, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • 2014 – Participant of the grant for Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, funded by the European Commission

  • 2013 – Georgia Tech - FIRE grant to support Atlantic Slavic Studies Seminar, co-organized with Nikolay Koposov

  • 2009 – 2012 – Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies

Current and
Recent
Projects:
  • The New Gothic Age: Vampires and Nightmares
  • Neo-Medievalism in Putin’s Russia (current book project)
Professional
Associations: