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Olga Solovieva, University of Chicago - "War photography and avant-garde performance in Kurosawa Akira’s 'The Lower Depths (1957)'"

Olga V. Solovieva is assistant professor of comparative literature at The University of Chicago. Her work brings into dialogue texts and concepts from numerous disciplines, including literature, film, religious studies, art history, philosophy and law. Her work focuses on the history of rhetoric, performance, communication, interdisciplinary narratology, and media studies, particularly in their material and corporeal aspects. Her current book projects, The Russian Kurosawa and Thomas Mann's Russia, examine the political, philosphical and mediating function of the reception of Russian literature in East and West.