Elena Yushkova

In 2020-2022, she was a Research Associate at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center (MA), in 2007-2008 - a Scholar in Residence at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., USA, investigating Isadora Duncan’s influence on Russian art and mentality. Elena is author of two Russian-language monographs (including the first monograph on Isadora Duncan published in Russia, and the monograph on the history of Russian plastique/interpretative/dance theater). Elena has published more than sixty academic articles in Russian and foreign academic journals, collective monographs, and conference proceedings. Her recent publications appeared in Journal of Russian American Studies, Dance Chronicle, Forum Modernes Theater, Toronto Slavic Quarterly, Literature of Two Americas, Voprosy Literatury, and others. Elena was an organizer of three academic conferences in a series Dialogues and Meetings devoted to intersections of Russian and American culture, and editor of three collections of conference proceedings. Member of Association for Women in Slavic Studies, Russian Association for American Studies, Russian Union of Writers, and others. Elena is currently working on her English-language book on Isadora Duncan and Russian/Soviet culture.