Maya Vinokour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies. Her forthcoming book, Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture (Cornell University Press, 2024), investigates the metaphor of flow as a central figure in Russian labor discourse since 1870. She has written on contemporary Russian politics and culture for the Jordan Center Blog, which she edits; for the Los Angeles Review of Books; and for Foreign Policy. Currently, she and several collaborators are creating a bilingual, public-facing multimedia sourcebook of the post-Soviet 1990s, which charts the rise and fall of Russia's only independent public sphere to date. This work is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Jordan Center, and an NYU University Research Challenge Fund grant. She is co-editor (with Ainsley Morse and Maria Vassileva) and -translator of Found Life: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and An Interview (Columbia University Press, 2017), a collected volume by the contemporary fiction author and Runet pioneer Linor Goralik. She is also the translator of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Lame Fate | Ugly Swans (Chicago Review Press, 2020).

Maya Vinokour
Assistant Professor
My research interests span Russian literature and cultural history from the late nineteenth century to the present, and include Soviet labor culture, science fiction and film, and post-Soviet media.
Fellowships and Honors
- 2019-2022 Collaborative Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
- 2018 Summer Research Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2015-2016 Fulbright Research Grant (Konstanz, Germany)
- 2013-2014 Hopkinson Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
- 2013-2014 Mellon Humanities Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
- 2012 DAAD German Studies Research Grant for study at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM)
- 2011 Academia Rossica Young Translators Prize
Publications
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“Gig Authoritarians.”Public Books, September 3, 2019
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Los Angeles Review of Books, August 23. 2017
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FOUND LIFE: Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interviewby Linor Goralik, co-edited with Ainsley Morse and Maria Vassileva (Columbia University Press). 2017
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“Daniil Kharms and the Liquid Language of Stalinism,”Slavic and East European Journal, 60 (4): 676-699. 2016
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“Books of Laughter and Forgetting: Satire and Trauma in the Novels of Il’f and Petrov,”Slavic Review, 74 (2): 334-353. 2015