Dina Khapaeva
Director of Russian Program, Professor of Russian
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 Observer, The Polish Review, among others. Her numerous articles have appeared in journals including Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Social Research, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Le Débat, Merkur, Social Sciences Information, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Russian Literature. In 2016, she received an Invited Professorship at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Interests
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Russian
- 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
Grants:
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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)
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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)
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Spring 2016 – Visiting Professor at Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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2014 – 2016 – Dean’s Distinguished Researcher Award, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
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2014 – Participant of the grant for Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, funded by the European Commission
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2013 – Georgia Tech - FIRE grant to support Atlantic Slavic Studies Seminar, co-organized with Nikolay Koposov
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2009 – 2012 – Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Recent
Projects:
- The New Gothic Age: Vampires and Nightmares
- Neo-Medievalism in Putin’s Russia (current book project)
Associations:
- Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages