Education

Eliot Borenstein is a Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Collegiate Professor at New York University. His early publications dealt largely with issues of sexuality and masculinity in Slavic literature. Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929 (Duke UP, 2000), which was an outgrowth of his dissertation, won the 2001 award for best book in literature or cultural scholarship from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Mr. Borenstein’s current research is on popular culture and among his publications are Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture (Cornell UP, 2008), Iteration through Innovation: Russian Popular Culture Today (Slavic and East European Journal, 48, No. 1 [2004]), Russia’s Alien Nations: Imagining the Other after Socialism, and Catastrophe of the Week: Apocalyptic Entertainment in Post-Soviet Russia. He is currently at work on Plots against Russia which is both a blog and a book in progress.