Svetlana Boym
A
native of St. Petersburg, Russia, the theorist, writer and video artist
Svetlana Boym today lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts.
She is a Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature and an associate of the
Graduate School of Design and
Architecture at Harvard University.
Her work explores the relationship between utopia and kitsch, memory and
modernity, nostalgia and homesickness. She is the author of numerous books and
papers, including Death in Quotation
Marks (1991), Common Places:
Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (1994), Kosmos: Remembrances of the Future (in conjunction with the photographer Adam Bartos, 2001), The Future of Nostalgia (2001), and the
novel Ninochka (2003).