Dina Khapaeva
Professor
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School of Modern Languages
Dina Khapaeva
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’s single-authored books include Putin’s Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia(Routledge, 2023), translated into Russian as Terror i pamyat’ by Dmitry Prokofyev (Eur’orbem Sorbonne, Paris, 2024), Crimes sans châtiment: Aux sources du poutinisme (Éditions de l’Aube, 2023, trans. from Russian by Nina Kehayan), The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture (The University of Michigan Press, 2018, translated into Russian asZanimatel’naya smert’: razvlecheniya epokhi postgumanizma, by Larisa Zhitkova (Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie,2020), Nightmare: From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project, English translation of Koshmar: Literatura I zhizn’, trans. by Rosie Tweddly (Brill, 2013); Koshmar: Literatura i zhizn’ (Text, 2010), in Russian; Goticheskoe obstchestvo; morfologiya koshmara (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2007; 2nd edition 2008), in Russian; Gerzogi respubliki v epohu perevodov (Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie, 2005), in Russian; Vremya kosmopolitizma (Zvezda, 2002), in Russian. She also edited a collective volume, Man-Eating Monsters: Human Exceptionalism in Popular Culture, ed. Dina Khapaeva(Emerald Publishing, 2020).
Khapaeva’s articles on post-Soviet memory have appeared in The New German Critique, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Social Research, Annales, Social Sciences Information, Russian Literature, The New Literary Observer, The Atlantic, Le Débat, Merkur, Libération, Project Syndicate, Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, and Radio Liberty, among other venues.
Her works have been reviewed in Cultural Critique, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mortality, The Polish Review, Slavic and East European Journal, The Russian Review, Ab Imperio, Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, The Slavonic and East European Review, Slavic and East European Journal, The Russian Review, Journal of Russian Communications, Inostrannaia literatura, Slavic Review, Novoye literaturnoye obozrenie, Znamya.
Khapaeva received a Fellowship at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies (2023), a Visiting Scholar position at the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Emory University (Spring 2023), a Visiting Professorship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2016), Dean’s Distinguished Researcher Award at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology (2014), Research Fellowship at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2009-2012). She serves on the Advisory Board for the book series Russian History and Culture (Brill Publishers, Leiden).