Justin Wilmes

Academic Publications

• “The Civic Documentaries of Vitaly Mansky: Text and Subtext.” Forthcoming in Contemporary Russian Documentary: Negotiating the Personal and the Political (ed. Masha Shpolberg and Anastasia Kostina), University of Edinburgh Press, 2024.
• “Postmodernity, Freedom, and Authenticity in Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto (2018).” Singing a Different Tune: The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context. Ed. Helena Goscilo, Academic Studies Press, 2023.
• “Chekhov and Film.” Chekhov in Context. Ed. Yuri Corrigan, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• “Neo-Romanticism and Authorial Myth in the Works of Valeria Gai Germanika,” co-authored with Anzhelika Artyukh, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2020
• “Empire Reloaded: Sacred Power in a Postmodern Era” for Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context , ed. Nancy Condee, et al. (2020)
• “My Joy (Dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2010).” Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader, Volume Three (2005-2016). Ed. Rimgaila Salys. 2019 (p. 157-175)>
• “‘Stability Amidst Chaos’: Affective Language and Performance in Ivan Vyrypaev’s ‘Delhi Dance’ (2012) and ‘Unbearably Long Embraces’ (2015),” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (Vol. 12:3, August 2018)
• “From Tikhie to Gromkie: The Discursive Strategies of the Putin-era Auteurs.” Russian Literature (guest ed. Mark Lipovetsky and Klavdia Smola) (Vols. 96-98, Feb-May, 2018, p. 297-327)
• “Dramatizing Dualism: The Use of the Literary Double in Prus’s The Doll.” The Polish Review (Vol. 62.4, 2017, p. 3-20)
• Translation of Maciej Miłkowski’s short story “The Week of German Cinema,” New England Review (Vol. 37, No. 4, December 2016). Translation was performed by students at Middlebury College for “NER Out Loud” on February 24, 2017. http://www.nereview.com/ner-out-loud/february-24-2017/
• “National Identity (De)Construction in Recent Independent Cinema: Kirill Serebrennikov’s Yuri’s Day and Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (Vol. 8:3, November, 2014, pp. 218-232)
• “In Between and Beyond: Hybrid Genre and Multicultural Perspective in Sergei Dvortsevoi’s Tulpan.” Australian Slavonic and East European Studies (Vol. 26, 2012, pp. 77-97)
• “Anticipating Chekhov: Tragicomic Elements in Griboedov’s Woe from Wit,” The Pushkin Review (Vol. 15, 2012, pp. 125-142)

Editorships

• Co-Editor of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media
• Guest Editor for Cluster “Ivan Vyrypaev: Between Cinema and Theatre” (Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Aug 2018)
• Guest Editor for Cluster “Women and Tech in the Post-Soviet Context: Intelligence, Creativity, Trangression” (with Saara Ratilainen and Marielle Wijermars for Digital Icons, forthcoming)

Book and Film Reviews

• “Film Review: ‘By the White Sea’ (Zachinaev, 2022).” KinoKultura No. 83 (2024): https://www.kinokultura.com/2024/83r-u-samogo-belogo.shtml
• “Film Review: ‘Kath’ (Akopov, 2022). KinoKultura No. 80 (2023): https://www.kinokultura.com/2023/80r-ket.shtml
• “Film Review – ‘Scarecrow’ (2020, Davydov).” Slavic Review, 2021.
• “Book Review – Alyssa Deblasio’s ‘The Filmmakers Philosopher’ (2019).” Slavic Review, 2020.
• “Film Review: ‘Selfie’ (Khomeriki, 2017).” KinoKultura No. 61 (2018). http://www.kinokultura.com/2018/61r-selfie.shtml
• “In Memoriam: Three 2016 Documentaries about Boris Nemtsov.” The New Contemporary: Notes from the Havighurst Center, 2017. https://blogs.miamioh.edu/havighurst/2017/03/14/in-memoriam-three-2016-documentaries-about-boris-nemtsov/
• “Film Review: ‘I Know How to Knit’ (Stepanova, 2016).” KinoKultura No. 56 (2017). http://www.kinokultura.com/2017/56r-umeyu-vyazat.shtml
• “Book Review: ‘Networked Affect’ by Hillis, et al. (2015).” Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (2016). http://www.digitalicons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DI_14_BR_7_Wilmes.pdf (PDF)
• Film Review – “Brother Dejan” (Bakuradze, 2015) – KinoKultura No. 52 (2016). http://www.kinokultura.com/2016/52r-dejan.shtml

Awards and Grants

• Start-up Research Grant, East Carolina University (2015)
• Diploma for Best Postgraduate Article, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2014)
• OSU Presidential Fellowship (November, 2013)
• Polish Studies Initiative Research Grant, OSU Slavic Dept. (2013)
• OSU College of Arts & Science Graduate Teacher of the Year (2013)
• University Fellowship, OSU (2008-2009)
• Fulbright Scholar, Novosibirsk, Russia (2007-2008)