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Vlad Strukov
Vlad Strukov is an associate professor in film and digital culture at the University of Leeds, specializing in contemporary visual culture, media and digital culture. He is the author of many books on Russian culture, including Contemporary Russian Cinema: Symbols of a New Era, Russian Culture in the Age of Globalisation and others. He is the founding and principal editor of a journal Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (http://www.digitalicons.org). He is currently a researcher on a project on Russian queer visual culture funded by the Swedish Research Council. He has previously been a visiting professor/researcher at the Universities of Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Helsinki, London and Pittsburgh. He makes regular appearances in international media such as Al Jazeera, American Public Radio, BBC and RBK. He is also an art and film curator, showing emerging artists at exhibitions in London, St. Petersburg and Venice.