Dina Khapaeva

Dina Khapaeva is Professor at the School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of Russian studies, memory studies, medievalism, and death studies. Her recent books include Crimes sans châtiment: Aux sources du poutinisme (Éditions de l'Aube, 2023, trans. by Nina Kehayan), The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture (The University of Michigan Press, 2018, translated into Russian as «Занимательная смерть: развлечения эпохи постгуманизма», Новое литературное обозрение, 2020), and a collective volume Man-eating Monsters: Human Exceptionalism in Popular Culture, Dina Khapaeva ed. (Emerald Publishing, 2020).

Her articles have appeared in The New German Critique, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Social Research, Annales, Social Sciences Information, The South Atlantic Quarterly, Russian Literature, The New Literary Observer, The Atlantic, Le Débat, Merkur, Libération, Project Syndicate, Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, Radio Liberty, among other venues.

Khapaeva’s works were reviewed by Cultural Critique, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Journal of Books, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, The Russian Review, The Slavonic and East European Review, The Mortality, The Journal of Russian Communications, The New Literary Observer, and The Polish Review, among others.

Khapaeva received a USIAS Fellowship at the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies (2024), Invited Professorship at Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2016). She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Book Series Russian History and Culture, Brill Publishers (Leiden).