Robert Efird

• Russian Literature
• Philosophy
• Narrative Theory
• Theology
• Cinema

• PhD, University of Virginia

• Russian Study Abroad Coordinator
• FLL Teaching Committee Co-Chair

• Certificate of Teaching Excellence

Journal Articles

“Isochrony and the Story/Discourse Distinction in Aleksandr Sokurov’s Russian Ark.” Journal of Narrative Theory 41.2 (2011)

“Solzhenitsyn, Tarkovsky and the Coarse Spirituality of Carlos Reygadas’s Japón.” Transnational Cinemas5.1 (2014)

“Amorphous Forms: Time and Subjectivity in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 8.1 (2014)

“Deleuze on Tarkovsky: The Crystal-Image of Time in Steamroller and Violin.” Slavic and East European Journal 58.2 (2014)