Teaching Russian Culture, and New Ways of Approaching Pushkin

Michael Kunichika is a Professor of Russian and the Director of the Amherst Center for Russian Culture at Amherst College. His research interests include Russian modernism, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between painting and literature; Russian cinema and visual culture; literary theory, rhetoric, and Russian archeology. After growing from Berkeley, Michael Kunichika taught at New York University and Harvard before arriving at Amherst. In 2015-16, he was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. His first book, “Our Native Antiquity”: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism was published by the Academic Studies Press in 2015.