Vadim Besprozvany's fields of interest:
- Russian Literature of 18th -20th centuries
- Slavic Languages
- Russian and East European Cinema
- Russian and Ukrainian Contemporary Art
Vladimir Narbut: Poetics of Linguistic and Cultural Bilingualism
Vladimir Narbut and his Literary Dialog with the Fellow Acmeists
One-Story America: Ilia Il'f and Eugeniy Petrov's travelogue. Commentary and Interpretation
Late XVIII century Russian Literature: Karamzin and his Circle
Ukrainian Baroque: History and Historical Influence
Gogol's "Dead Souls": Reality of Poetics and Poetics of Reality
Mickiewicz and Russian Literature: The Poem “Dziady” by Adam Mickiewicz and its Russian Literary Context.
Tuwim’s “Bal w Operze” and Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita”. Typological Parallels and Similarity of Motifs.
LEF, Novy LEF, and Literature of Fact
A Mirrored History: Soviet Cinema in American Historiography
Kira Muratova, Soviet period
Sergei Parajanov: The Structure of the Cinematic Myth
Ukrainian Mythopoetic School (Parajanov – Il’enko - Mykolaichuk)
Soviet Cinema during the Thaw
- Russian, Ukrainian, Polish Languages
- Pushkin - Lermontov - Gogol
- Chekhov's Plays
- Reading Dostoevsky
- Russian Literature of the Silver Age (1890-1921)
- From Non-Conformism to New Imperial Classicism: Contemporary Russian
Culture through Literature, Visual Art and Cinema.
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- Soviet Empire: Literature, Film, Art
- Soviet Cinema during the Thaw
Curriculum
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