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Irina Denischenko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Georgetown University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University (2018). Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century literature and visual arts in Central/Eastern Europe, emphasizing avant-garde and modernist aesthetics, gender politics, and women’s contributions to cultural movements. She co-edited Cannibalizing the Canon: Dada Techniques in East-Central Europe (2024) and is completing a book manuscript on Vladimir Mayakovsky’s democratic poetics.
Education: Columbia University, PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures (2018).
Research Interests: Irina’s work bridges literary theory, feminist critique, and visual studies. She explores how avant-garde practices reconfigure authorship (e.g., Bakhtin’s aesthetics), gender’s role in cultural production, and experimental cinema (e.g., Kira Muratova). Her recent projects interrogate transnational avant-garde networks and Marxist methodologies.
Teaching: Courses include Women's Writing After Socialism, Women and Resistance in Russia, and Radical Art in Eastern Europe. She organizes Georgetown’s annual Great Women Writers event, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on global women’s literary contributions.
Labs/Teams: Engaged with Georgetown’s Faculty of Literatures, Cultures, and Language Studies through collaborative events and pedagogical initiatives.
