Issue 6.

Ellen Rutten

Ellen Rutten studied Russian literature at the Universities of Groningen, St. Petersburg and Berlin (Humboldt). She was affiliated as lecturer and researcher to the universities of Amsterdam, Leiden, and Cambridge, and now works at the University of Bergen as a principal investigator of the HERA-funded project Web Wars: Digital Diasporas and the Language of Memory in Russia and Ukraine, and a postdoctoral researcher in The Future of Russian, a research project on digital media and Russian language culture. Rutten’s work appeared in The Slavonic & East European Review, Osteuropa, and the Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, among others. Her monograph Unattainable Bride Russia: Gendering Nation, State & Intelligentsia in Russian Intellectual Culture was published by Northwestern University Press in 2010; she is currently completing a second monograph on post-Communist sincerity.