Justin Wilmes

Associate Professor
Russian

252-328-6045 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
wilmesj15@ecu.edu
Ragsdale 116 A (office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University Mailstop #556
Greenville, NC 27858-4353

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Education

  • BA Russian / BS Computer Science, Miami University (Ohio)
  • MA Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University
  • PhD Slavic and East European Languages & Literatures, The Ohio State University

Areas of Interest

  • Post-Soviet Cinema and Culture
  • 19th-century Russian Literature and Drama
  • 19th and 20th century Polish Culture
  • Cultural Studies, Identity Construction, Nationhood and Memory Studies
  • Translation

Courses Taught

  • RUSS 1001, 1002, 2003, 2004: Russian Language
  • RUSS 3230: Contemporary Russian Film
  • RUSI 4000: Senior Capstone: The Fantastic in Russian Literature
  • RUSI 4000: Senior Capstone: Russian History, Memory, and Identity Through Film
  • FORL 2220: Sci-Fi: East and West
  • GLST 1000: Intro to Global Studies
  • ECU Study Abroad program “White Nights in St. Petersburg: Past and Present” (2017-2019)

Academic Publications

  • “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

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)