Graduate researcher working on film and media networks across (and beyond) postwar Europe, 1945-1968.

I’m Katya Lopatko, instructor and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara. I study 20th-century film and literature in English, French and Russian, and teach in Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies, with an emphasis on film, media studies approaches, and analytical writing skills.

My research interests include:

• Theories of modernism and modernity

• Spatial studies: cities and other built and natural environments, and how they reflect and shape social life

• Soviet and Eastern European cinema: how films from the USSR and the Eastern Bloc express and construct socialist modernity

• The gendered body in the world, on the screen, and on the page: how does identity affect our embodied experiences? How do film and literature record and shape these experiences?

My updated CV is here, and earlier professional experience is available on LinkedIn here.