Eliot Borenstein (NYU): Speak of the Devil. The Putinist Crusade against Satan at Home and Abroad

Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies and Vice Chancellor and Vice Provost for Global Programs at New York University. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993 and has since held various positions at New York University, including advisor for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies since 2021 and global coordinator for East Asian Studies from 2014 to 2019. In 2020, Borenstein’s Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism was awarded the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize.

Publications (selection):

• Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press 2024
• Soviet Self-Hatred. The Secret Identities of Postsocialism in Contemporary Russia. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press 2023
• Meanwhile, in Russia: Russian Memes and Viral Videos. London et al.: Bloomsbury 2022
• Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power. London: Bloomsbury 2021
• Plots against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2019
• Overkill: Sex Violence, and Russian Popular Culture after 1991. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2008
• Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917–1929. Durham: Duke University Press 2001

For more information, see www.eliotborenstein.net

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