Michael Kunichika

Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies
B.A. 1999 Reed College M.A. 2002 University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. 2007 University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Research/Interest
Michael Kunichika's research interests include Russian modernism, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between painting and literature; Russian cinema and visual culture; literary theory, rhetoric, and Russian archaeology.

Select Publications:
- "Landscape and Vision and the White=Baltic Sea Canal," in Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (New Haven: Yale 2008).

He is currently at work on a book examining the creation of an indigenous antiquity during the Russian modernist period.