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Elizabeth Papazian is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, affiliated with the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She holds dual roles as Program Head of Russian and Advisor in Cinema and Media Studies. Papazian earned her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University (2000) and has taught at UMD since that time. Her research spans literary/cinematic modernism, documentary modes, and the intersection of art/politics in Soviet culture, with a focus on early and post-Stalin eras. She co-edited *The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia* (2016) and authored *Manufacturing Truth: The Documentary Moment in Early Soviet Culture* (2009). Current projects include a book on Soviet cinematic realism.
Research interests emphasize temporal-spatial frameworks in post-Stalin cinema, including subjective experiences, localized histories, and pre-historical temporalities. Courses taught cover Russian literature/culture and cinema, as well as broader film studies, in both English and Russian.
Her work interrogates contradictions in Soviet cultural production, such as colonial functions of cinema and the clash between individual experience and state narratives. Recent scholarship explores poetic cinema’s disruption of Stalinist temporalities and the entanglement of ethnographic and aesthetic modes in 1960s Soviet art.
