Eliot Borenstein

Eliot Borenstein[a] is professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University. His main interests are Russian contemporary literature and cultural studies, conspiracy theories, Internet culture.[2]

1988: B.A. (Russian language and literature), Oberlin College[2]
1989:M.A. (Slavic languages and literatures),University of Wisconsin–Madison[2]
1993: Ph.D. (Slavic languages and literatures), University of Wisconsin–Madison[2]

Borenstein joined the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science’s Department of Russian & Slavic Studies in 1995. Before that he was Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia (1993–95),[3] the residential director for study-away programs in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and was the director of the Fulbright Program for the Russian Federation. As of 2024 he is Vice Chancellor and Vice Provost for Global Programs at New York University.[4]

Books

  • Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929
    2001 AATSEEL book prize
  • Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
    2008 AWSS Heldt Prize
  • Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism
    "...analyzes Russian national myths and disturbingly popular beliefs in the internet age"... "Borenstein demonstrates how a sense of historical loss and post-1989 political traumas have shaped a significant part of Russian political consciousness in the 21st century."[5]
    2020 Wayne S. Vucinich book prize[5] and 2020 AATSEEL book prize
  • 2020: Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power
  • 2023:Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head
  • 2022:Meanwhile, in Russia…: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video
  • 2023:Soviet-Self-Hatred: The Secret Identities of Postsocialism
  • 2023:HBO’s The Leftovers: Mourning and Melancholy on Premium Cable
  • 2024: Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny
    The book is about Soviet nostalgia in Russian literary fiction[6]
  • 2024: Harry Potter in Russia: The Politics of Enchantment under Putin, and Russian Culture under Putin

Honors

Notes

  1. ^ The surname is pronounced rhyming with “Foreign wine”[1]

References

  1. ^ https://www.eliotborenstein.net/about
  2. ^ a b c d Eliot Borenstein, a NYU profile
  3. ^ a b c d Eliot Borenstein a Guggenheim Foundation profile
  4. ^ Vice Chancellor and Vice Provost for Global Programs
  5. ^ a b 2020 RECIPIENT / Eliot Borenstein / Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism
  6. ^ https://www.eliotborenstein.net/unstuck-in-time