Irina Vasilyeva Meier

Senior Lecturer of Russian

Email: imeier@unm.edu
Phone: 505-277-4771
Curriculum vitae
Office: 323B
Hours: M W F 11:00 - 2:00 or by appointment

Research Area/s:

Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Russian

Biography:

Irina Meier teaches Russian language courses and a range of interdisciplinary courses in translation, for majors and non-majors alike, on 19th, 20th and 21st-century Russian culture and literature through film as well as courses on Russian terrorism and Russian immigration. She also serves as the Director of the Russian program. Her research explores complex manifestations of collective and individualized violence in modern society. Her main areas of scholarly expertise focus on cultural studies, including Russian terrorism from the nineteenth century to the present, postcolonial collective memory in the Chechen culture, Russian film, and digital humanities methods.

Educational History:

2016, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina

Dissertation: Evil Men Have No Songs: The Terrorist and Littérateur Boris Savinkov, 1879-1925.

2010, M.A. in English, Eastern New Mexico University

2008, B.S. in Political Science, Eastern New Mexico University

2006, Specialist (equivalent to Master's) in Translation and Theory of Translation, Linguistics, Vyatka State University of Humanities, Kirov, Russia.

Research Interests:

Violence in modern society
Culture of Russian terrorism
Russian and Chechen film
Postcolonial collective memory in Chechen culture
Digital Humanities

Representative Courses:

Immigration: The Russian Factor (remote learning)
Culture of Russian Terrorism
19th Century Russian Culture and History Through Film
Saints and Sinners in Russian Culture
Modern Russia: Digital Humanities Methods
Intermediate Russian
Advanced Russian
Approaches to Modern Languages and Cultures (remote learning)
Immigration, Languages, Cultures (in-person and remote learning)

Publications:

“Mass Shooters as Underground Men of the Twenty-first Century.” Cognitive Approaches to Slavic Cultures. Ed. Tom Dolack. Lexington Books. In press. Forthcoming in November 2024.

“ ‘The Greatest Monsters’: Re-writing Russian History through Cinematic Representations of Revolutionary Terrorism.” NYU Jordan Center Blog. October 19, 2022.

Zagrai, E., Ivanova-Sullivan, T., Meier, I., Patterson, L., & Shkireva, A. Teaching and learning Russian language and culture in New Mexico (In Russian). Russian Language Abroad. Special issue on Russian Studies in the USA: pp. 9-15, 2017.