Irina Dzero
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Associate Professor
Campus:
Kent
Office Location:
306-C Satterfield Hall
Biography
Research Interests
- I study how people collaborate in their own domination, with a focus on authoritarianism in Latin America and Russia. I am the author of Fathers, Masculinity and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema (2025).
Current projects:
- Book on the representation of authoritarian mothers in the Americas.
- Series of articles on how gamification and algorithmic control in food delivery apps like DoorDash foster compulsive engagement and accelerate the precarization of work.
Recent Publications
Book(s): , University of Florida Press, 2025
Articles:
- Freedom, Free Market, and Precarious Jobs in Chile in the Film Adaptation of Subterra,Latin American Perspectives, forthcoming
- Dzero, Irina. Under-the-Skin Cinema: Alejandro Jodorowsky Tells Abject Secrets, Film International, 2024
- Indifference in Recent Russian Films: The Gulag Face of Cruelty Returns, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2024
- Failed Democratic Transitions: Clientelism and Hand-Kissing in Contemporary Mexican Film. Periphrica, 2022.
- Fly in the Soup: Gibberish in Russia as Aesthetic Resistance, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2021
- Pussy Riot and Translatability of Cultures, Transcultural Studies, 2017
- La fiesta del chivo, Novel and Film, on the Transition to Democracy in Latin America,Latin American Research Review, 2016
Research Interests
- I study how people collaborate in their own domination, with a focus on authoritarianism in Latin America and Russia. I am the author of Fathers, Masculinity and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema (2025).
Current projects:
- Book on the representation of authoritarian mothers in the Americas.
- Series of articles on how gamification and algorithmic control in food delivery apps like DoorDash foster compulsive engagement and accelerate the precarization of work.
Recent Publications
Book(s): , University of Florida Press, 2025
Articles:
- Freedom, Free Market, and Precarious Jobs in Chile in the Film Adaptation of Subterra,Latin American Perspectives, forthcoming
- Dzero, Irina. Under-the-Skin Cinema: Alejandro Jodorowsky Tells Abject Secrets, Film International, 2024
- Indifference in Recent Russian Films: The Gulag Face of Cruelty Returns, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2024
- Failed Democratic Transitions: Clientelism and Hand-Kissing in Contemporary Mexican Film. Periphrica, 2022.
- Fly in the Soup: Gibberish in Russia as Aesthetic Resistance, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2021
- Pussy Riot and Translatability of Cultures, Transcultural Studies, 2017
- La fiesta del chivo, Novel and Film, on the Transition to Democracy in Latin America,Latin American Research Review, 2016
Education
Ph. D., Yale University, 2010
