MICHAEL KUNICHIKA

Michael KUNICHIKA joined New York University’s Department of Russian and Slavic Studies as an Assistant Professor. He earned his B.A. in Russian Literature from Reed College (1999), and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of California - Berkeley (2002, 2007). He has previously taught at Amherst College as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian.

His research interests include Russian literary and artistic modernism, with a particular emphasis on the interrelations between the two; silent Russian and Soviet cinema; Russian critical theory. He has published an article, "Landscape and Vision at the White Sea-Baltic Canal," in Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (Yale University Press). He is currently working on a book on the creation of an indigenous antiquity by Russian modernists, writers and artists, which examines how they transformed archaeological artifacts into aesthetic resources for their art and literature.