Ellen Rutten

Ellen Rutten is Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Russian & Slavic Studies at the University of Amsterdam and, in the academic year 2019-2020, Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. Her research interests include Russian and global contemporary literature, art, design, and media. She is the author of Unattainable Bride Russia: Gendering Nation, State, and Intelligentsia in Russian Intellectual Culture (Northwestern University Press, 2010) and Sincerity after Communism: A Cultural History (Yale University Press, 2017), among other publications. Rutten leads the research project ‘Sublime Imperfections: Creative Interventions in Post-1989 Europe’ (University of Amsterdam, 2015–20) and is editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Russian Literature.