ellen rutten: russian literature & culture

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Welcome to this website. My name is Ellen Rutten, and I coordinate a research project at the University of Bergen on what I call "web wars": discussions of the Soviet past in Russian and Ukrainian social media. At the same university, I work as a postdoctoral researcher for a team that explores the impact of new media on Russian literature & language. My research interests include social media, post-Soviet culture, literature and art, and memory discourse. At the moment I study a trend to embrace imperfection in contemporary (Russian) culture and I am writing a book on post-Soviet sincerity rhetoric. Together with my Web Wars colleagues, I am preparing both an edited volume and a film on online commemorations of the socialist experience. For more information on my work, feel free to browse this site—or to contact me in person.

PRESS: read my recent interviews—in Dutch—on Russian new media & anti-Putin satire in nrc.next or in NRC, on creative imperfections in Het Parool, and post-socialist social media in De Pers. For a radio interview on the Duma elections for the Dutch Radio 1/VPRO, click here and opt for December 4, 19:00.

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