Our project integrates the expertise of five faculty members working on global mobility from the perspectives of anthropology, history, literature and film/media studies, as well as moving image production.
Yana Hashamova, is professor and chair of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University. She is working in the areas of Russian film, Russian and West European drama, comparative literature and the arts, critical theory and gender studies.
She is currently completing Screening Trafficking: Prudent or Perilous (New York/Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017). She is the author of Pride and Panic: Russian Imagination of the West in Post-Soviet Film (Intellect Press, distributed in the United States by University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Her other co-edited works include Embracing Arms: Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War (Central European University Press, 2012), Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film (Indiana University Press, 2010), Transgressive Women in Modern Russian and East European Cultures: From the Bad to the Blasphemous (Routledge, 2016), and Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkan (Central European University Press, 2016).