Dusan Radunovic

Dr Dusan Radunovic is an Associate Professor and Director of Studies (Russian) at the University of Durham's School of Modern Languages and Cultures. His research focuses on Critical Theory (Bakhtin, Formalism, Shpet's Circle), Russian, Georgian and Eastern European cinemas, and transnationalism studies. He leads the World Cinema and Cosmopolitics research group.

Research Interests
- Critical Theory (with focus on Bakhtin, Russian Formalism)
- Soviet and post-Soviet cinema (Georgian, Russian, Eastern European)
- Transnational cinema and national identity formations
- Film semiotics and aesthetics

Recent Scholarship Trends
His 2024 work explores decolonial aesthetics in Georgian cinema and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin's evolving interpretation. Recent articles analyze post-Soviet transnational cinema, memory in documentary film, and the avant-garde's cultural impact. He frequently publishes in Slavic and East European Journal, Cinema Journal, and Apparatus.

Student Supervision

• George Bocean (PhD)
• Ran Wei (PhD)
• Stepan Kachalin (PhD)

Labs/Teams - World Cinema and Cosmopolitics research group