Anastasia Kostina

Anastasia Kostina is a PhD candidate in the joint program in Film and Media Studies & Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. Her dissertation research focuses on the career of Soviet documentary pioneer Esfir Shub. Anastasia's broader academic interests include documentary history and theory, Soviet and post-Soviet documentary, transgressions between documentary and fiction, history of women’s cinema, environmental film. In recent years Anastasia published her works in Feminist Media Histories, Film Quarterly, Senses of Cinema and KinoKultura.