Kaufman Hall 222
Profile:
Dustin Condren is a scholar of Russian literature and culture with a primary research focus in early Soviet cinema. He earned his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University and joined OU's Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics in 2019. He is a core faculty member of the OU Romanoff Center for Russian Studies and an affiliated faculty member in Film and Media Studies.
He is the author of An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film (Cornell University Press, 2024). The book tracks the remnants of great Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s unmade projects against the backdrop of the political realities of early Stalinist Russia and the practical contingencies of film production, and is concerned with questions of the unfinished, of failure, and of the infinite.
His current book project is an exploration of the ways in which early Soviet films employed animals and images of them in their construction of new economic and political realities in the post-revolutionary and early-Stalin era.
An active translator, he has published multiple book-length translations from Russian.
He regularly teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose, poetry, and dramatic literature; Russian and Soviet cinema; film history and theory; and upper-level Russian language.
Selected Publications:
Dustin Condren, “Odd or Even: Eisenstein and Unfinished Work,” The Eisenstein Universe, eds. Ian Christie and Julia Vassilieva. London: Bloomsbury, 2021, 15–25.
Dustin Condren, “Notes Toward an Untimely Soviet Comedy: Eisenstein’s MMM,” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, v. 15.1 (2021): 2–22.
Dustin Condren, “Sub’’ektiv: Eizenshtein i ozhivlenie veshchei,” Eizenshtein dlia XXI veka, ed. Naum Kleiman. Moscow: Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 2020, 96–111.
Translations:
Sergei Eisenstein, The Primal Phenomenon: Art, tr. Dustin Condren, eds. Oksana Bulgakowa and Dietmar Hochmuth. Berlin: Potemkin Press, 2017, 344 pp.
Sergei Eisenstein, Disney. eds. Oksana Bulgakowa and Dietmar Hochmuth. Berlin: Potemkin Press, 2013, 183 pp.
Leo Tolstoy, The Gospel in Brief, tr. Dustin Condren. New York: HarperCollins, 2011, 224 pp.
Education:
Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Stanford University. 2018
M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Stanford University. 2004
Dual B.S. in Russian and Theater & Media Arts. Brigham Young University. 2001
Teaching Schedule for Fall 2023:
MLLL 3523-001 Russian Lit to 1917 in Trans, KH-105, T/R 13:30-14:45
