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“He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017) (2021)
Journal Article

Closeness (Tesnota, dir. Kantemir Balagov, 2017), is a striking example of contemporary Russian cinema due to its sustained focus on two groups of ethnic “others” (Jews and Kabardians) living in one of the poorest and most conflict-ridden areas of Ru... Read More about “He’s Not from Our Tribe!”: Jewish and Kabardian Identities in the Post-Soviet Russian Space(s) of Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness (Tesnota, 2017).

‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film (2021)
Book Chapter

Since Putin's third term as president, official discourse of Russian nationhood has become increasingly statist, ethnonationalist, traditionalist and anti-Western in tone and substance. This chapter analyzes the three films, Long and Happy Life, Levi... Read More about ‘We live like swine and die like swine, because we mean nothing to each other’: The little person, the state and nationhood in contemporary Russian film.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
Journal Article

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages (2021)
Journal Article

This special issue provides new perspectives on how standard language ideology (SLI) informs and influences attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ language varieties. Standard languages are commonly viewed as uniform, minimally varying (homogeneous) forms... Read More about Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages.

Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing (2021)
Journal Article

This article addresses the morpholinguistic and stylistice devices underwriting Freyre’s writing as the notion of “lusotropicalism” is advanced, mainly in the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953) and the accompanying volume Um brasileiro em terras por... Read More about Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing.

Deconstructing Gendered Norms and Reclaiming Gendered Spaces in Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011) (2021)
Journal Article

This article focuses on Angelina Nikonova's debut film Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011) and analyses the trajectory of the 'difficult' female protagonist, Marina (Ol'ga Dykhovichnaia), in relation to the spaces she inhabits and reclaims... Read More about Deconstructing Gendered Norms and Reclaiming Gendered Spaces in Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait (Portret v sumerkakh, 2011).

“Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness, and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality (2021)
Journal Article

Psychological theory and research suggest that religious individuals could have differences in the appraisal of immoral behaviours and cognitions compared to non-religious individuals. This effect could occur due to adherence to prescriptive and invi... Read More about “Speak of the Devil… and he Shall Appear”: Religiosity, Unconsciousness, and the Effects of Explicit Priming in the Misperception of Immorality.