Dr. I.S. (Irina) Souch
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Profile
Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film
Irina Souch is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Cultures of the University of Amsterdam and holds a position of Affiliated Researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) . Her monograph Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film (Bloomsbury 2017) focuses on the relation between the Soviet past and the state of Russian society today, public and scholarly discourses on Russian national identity, Russia’s relation to the West and the ways these questions are represented in popular media. She is also coeditor of the contributed volume Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge 2020).
Her current work addresses narrative, aesthetic and political functions of landscape in serial television drama and film which requires exploration of various aspects of contemporary critical theory, philosophy, cultural geography, and film and television studies.
Teaching
In the academic year 2021- 2022 Irina is teaching the following courses
Master's Thesis Seminar Compararive Cultural Analysis
Concepts for Cultural Analysis (MA)
MA and BA thesis supervision in comparative literature and cultural analysis
Courses taught previously
Key Concepts / Literary Masterpieces / Literature, Crisis and the Contemporary / Contemporary Critical Theory / Literary and Cultural Theory / Thesis Writing Workshop / Analysis and Interpretation / Inleiding Literatuurwetenschap / Contexts and Frames / Contemporary Literature: the Extreme Contemporary Novel / Russian 19th Century Literature
Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Simon Ferdinand, Irina Souch and Daan Wesselman -
Publications
2023
- Souch, I. S. (2023). Troubling the Water: Hydro-imaginaries in Nordic Television Drama. Akademisk Kvarter, 25(1), 51-63. [5]. https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/7635/6311
- Souch, I. S., & Kenny, I. (2023). When a Real Storm Hits the Shores: Representing Climate Crisis in the Television Series 'The Swell'. Interférences litteraires/literaire interferenties, 27(2), 77. [6]. http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/index.php/illi/article/view/1231
- Souch, I. S., Mikhailin, V., & Belyaeva, G. (2023). The waning of the young sincere hero in Averbakh and Maslennikov’s The Private Life of Kuziaev Valentin. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2023.2163960
2021
- Noordenbos, B., & Souch, I. (2021). Nostalgic Mediations of the Soviet Past in Nikolai Lebedev’s Remake of The Crew (2016). In E. Cuelenaere, G. Willems, & S. Joyce (Eds.), European Film Remakes (pp. 149-162). (Screen Serialities). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474460668-015 [details]
- Souch, I. S. (2021). Community, Myth, and Metaphor in Pavel Kostomarov’s Outbreak Thriller Series Epidemiia / To the Lake (2019). Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, 12, [4]. https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/252
- Souch, I. S. (2021). Reincarnations of Miss Marple on Russian TV: Challenging the Tropes of Female Ageing . MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, 7(1), [10]. https://maifeminism.com/reincarnations-of-miss-marple-on-russian-television/
2020
- Ferdinand, S., Souch, I., & Wesselman, D. (Eds.) (2020). Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290732 [details]
- Souch, I. S. (2020). Transformations of the Evil Forest in the Swedish Television Series Jordskott. Nordicom Review, 41(s1), 107-122. https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0011
- Souch, I. S. (2020). Without Witness: Privacy and Normal Life in Late Soviet Cinema. In T. Klepikova, & L. Raabe (Eds.), Outside the "Comfort Zone": Performances and Discourses of Privacy in Late Socialist Europe (pp. 203). (Rethinking the Cold War). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110606874-009
- Wesselman, D., Ferdinand, S., & Souch, I. (2020). Introduction: Interrupting Globalisation - Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century. In S. Ferdinand, I. Souch, & D. Wesselman (Eds.), Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century (pp. 1-18). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290732-1 [details]
2019
Peeren, E., & Souch, I. (2019). Romance in the cowshed: Challenging and reaffirming the rural idyll in the Dutch reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife. Journal of Rural Studies, 67, 37-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.02.001 [details]
2017
- Souch, I. S. (2017). Notes on Sincerity in Russian Auteur Cinema of the 2010s. Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe, 4, [4]. https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/18
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Peeren, E., & Souch, I. (2019). Romance in the cowshed: Challenging and reaffirming the rural idyll in the Dutch reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife. Journal of Rural Studies, 67, 37-45.