Olga Bryukhovetska, PhD in History and the Theory of Culture, Kyiv National Tares Shevchenko University, dissertation on Apparatus Theory (Psychoanalytic Concept of Subject in Film Theory). Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine, specializing in cinema and visual culture with methodological grounding in psychoanalysis and Marxism, teaches courses in visual culture, communication and mass culture, film critic and organizer of cinema screenings. Co-founder together with Sean Snyder of the Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv, and coordinator of the project Art/Knowledge/Politics. Current research focuses on Soviet and Post-Soviet visual culture in regard to sexual, national, and colonial identity issues. [Last updated 2010]
