ELIOT BORENSTEIN

Eliot BORENSTEIN received his doctorate in Slavic Languages and Literatures (with a minor in Comparative Literature) from the University of Wisconsin in 1993.  After directing the Fulbright Program in the Russian Federation and teaching for two years at the University of Virginia, he moved to New York University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Russian & Slavic Studies for six years, and spent four years as Director of the Morse Academic Plan, the undergraduate general education program for the College of Arts and Sciences at NYU. His first book, Men without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1919, won the AATSEEL award for best work in literary scholarship in 2000.  In 2007, he published Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture, which received the AWSS award for best book in Slavic Gender Studies in 2008. Recently, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to finish the companion volume,  Catastrophe of the Week: Apocalyptic Entertainment in Post-Soviet Russia.