Amherst Center for Russian Culture Michael Kunichika, Amherst College

Michael Kunichika is an Associate Professor in the Department of Russian and the Director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture at Amherst College. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, with a designated emphasis in Film Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley. His teaching and research interests draws material from all periods of modern Russian and Soviet Literature and culture, with special emphases on the interdisciplinary study of Russian modernism, critical theory, and Russian and Soviet cinema, particularly of the silent era. Professor Kunichika’s first book “Our Native Antiquity" (2015) received honorable mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize (2016) sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies and Stanford University's Center for Russian and East European Studies. It was also short-listed for the AATSEEL Best Book in Literary and Cultural Studies (2016).