Robyn Jensen

Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Russian

Robyn.Jensen@pomona.edu

Office:

Mason Hall

103

With Pomona since:

2019

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Expertise

Robyn Jensen is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature and culture. Her research and teaching take an intermedial approach to the study of Russian culture. Her work embraces a range of topics including photography theory, aesthetics and interart studies, visual culture, theater and performance studies, and theories of self-representation. She is currently writing a book about Russian émigré culture’s skeptical fascination with the banal, everyday family photograph.

Areas of Expertise

Russian Literature and Culture
Russian Émigré Culture
Photography Theory
Autobiography Studies

Research Interests

Photography and Literature
Aesthetics and Interart Studies
Visual Culture
Russian Theater
Moscow Conceptualism
Nabokov

Work

Articles

“Authorizing the Image: Photography in Nabokov’s Speak, Memory,” Slavic and East European Journal 63.2 (Summer 2019)

Film Reviews

Core of the World (Serdtse mira), dir. Natalia Meshchaninova, Kino Kultura 65 (July 2019)

Pomegranate Orchard (Nar bağı), dir. Ilgar Najaf, Kino Kultura 60 (April 2018)

Dream-fish (Ryba-mechta), dir. Anton Bilzho, Kino Kultura 56 (April 2017)

Anna Karenina, dir. David Blair, Tolstoy Studies Journal: Anna Karenina for the Twenty-First Century (2016)

Kurai-Kurai: Tales on the Wind, dir. Marjoleine Boonstra, Kino Kultura 52 (April 2016)

“Indictment or Endorsement: Leviathan in Putin’s Russia” (Roundtable), Ulbandus Online (Spring 2015)

Public Writing

“On Photography, Protests, and Citizenship,” Los Angeles Review of Books Blog. July 14, 2020

“Moscow-Beijing: A Journey Across Eurasia,” Harriman Magazine. Winter 2015.

Education

Ph.D., Columbia University

M.Phil., Columbia University

M.A., Columbia University

B.A., Barnard College

Recent Courses Taught

Modern Russian Culture: From Pagan Rus to Pussy Riot
Building the Future: Revolution, Imagination, Utopia (Critical Inquiry Seminar)
Women in Soviet Film
Elementary Russian

Awards & Honors

Robert L. Belknap Dissertation Prize, Columbia University, 2019

Summer Teaching Scholar, Columbia University, 2016

Lead Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 2015–16