Samuel Goff

Dr Samuel Goff serves as a Lecturer in Slavonic Studies within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. His academic base is the Raised Faculty Building on Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, United Kingdom, where he contributes to the university's Slavic language and culture curriculum.

Education

• PhD, University of Cambridge

Research Focus

Dr Goff's scholarship centers on visual and physical culture dynamics in the early Soviet Union, specifically examining cinema and sport as ideological battlegrounds during the transition from avant-garde experimentation to Stalinist cultural orthodoxy. His work reveals continuities between revolutionary artistic movements and later state-mandated aesthetics through rigorous analysis of film archives, athletic institutions, and embodied practices.

Teaching Profile

He serves as course contact for SL7: Soviet and Russian Cinema and SL14: Russian Culture from 1895 to the Death of Stalin, while also teaching SL1/SLA3 and CS5 (The Body). His instruction integrates primary source analysis with critical theory to explore twentieth-century Russian/Soviet historical trajectories, emphasizing how cultural production intersected with political power structures.