Nancy Condee is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and served as the head of the Cultural Studies department from 1995 to 2006. [1] Her field is contemporary Russian cinema and cultural politics. [2]
Condee received her Ph.D. at Yale University. [2]
She is co-organizer, with Vladimir Padunov, of the Pittsburgh Film Symposium, held each year in May at the University of Pittsburgh. [3] Her most recent book, The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema, won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award. [4] The book, published by Oxford University Press, focuses on contemporary Russian cinema.