Christina Kiaer

Christina Kiaer is a professor at Northwestern University, specializing in Russian and Soviet art, the politics of realism and the avant-garde, Comintern aesthetics, the visual culture of anti-racism, and feminist theory. She is the author of Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (MIT Press). She has co-edited Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (Indiana University Press) with Eric Naiman, an interdisciplinary volume of essays on Soviet cultural history. Her book Collective Body: The Lyrical Prospects of Socialist Realism is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, and she is at work on a new project, An Aesthetics of Anti-racism: African Americans in Soviet Visual Culture.