dr. I.S. (Irina) Souch
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Profile
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 (forthcoming at Routledge in 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 2019- 2020 Irina is teaching the following courses
Literary and Cultural Theory
Thesis Writing Workshop
MA and BA thesis supervision in comparative literature and cultural analysis
Courses taught previously
Analysis and Interpretation
Literary Masterpieces
Inleiding Literatuurwetenschap
Contexts and Frames
Contemporary Literature: the Extreme Contemporary Novel
Russian 19th Century Literature
Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film
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Publications
2020
- Ferdinand, S. R., Souch, I. S., & Wesselman, D. V. (Accepted/In press). Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge.
- Wesselman, D. V., Souch, I. S., & Ferdinand, S. R. (Accepted/In press). Introduction - Interrupting Globalisation: Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century. In Heterotopia and Globalisation in the Twenty-First Century Routledge.
2019
Peeren, E., & Souch, I. S. (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.
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Ancillary activities
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Peeren, E., & Souch, I. S. (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.