Ilya Kukulin
Dr. Ilya Kukulin is a literary critic, cultural historian, and historian of education. He authored a book Machines of the Noisy Time: How the Soviet Montage Became an Aesthetic Method of the Unofficial Culture (2015) and co-authored a monograph A Guerilla Logos: The Project of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov (2022, with Mark Lipovetsky); in 2019, he also published a volume of his selected articles and essays The Breakthrough to an Impossible Connection.
He has been a co-editor of five collections, including (Counter-)Archive: Memorial Practices of the Soviet Underground (with Klavdia Smola and Annelie Bachmaier, forthcoming), Utopian Islands: Social and Pedagogical Projects in the Postwar School (with Maria Mayofis and Piotr Safronov, 2015), and There, Within: Practices of Internal Colonization in the Cultural History of Russia (with Alexander Etkind and Dirk Uffelmann, 2012).
He was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize in 2015, the International Prize Bella for the best article on poetry of the year in 2017, the prize "Furious Vissarion" in 2020, and the prize "Poetry" in nomination "Criticism" in 2021.
Photo by Prof. Ilya Vinitsky of Dr. Kukulin after guest lecture at Princeton University in 2019.