Alexandra Heidi Karriker

Alexandra Heidi Karriker, Associate Professor of Russian, received her Ph.D. from Brown University and taught at Stanford University and the University of Wyoming before coming to the University of Oklahoma in 1975. She teaches Russian language, literature, and film courses, and she is a member of the Women's Studies Faculty. From 1991-1999 she served as the Director of Film and Video Studies, an interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts and Sciences. She has organized many colloquia and symposia, not only at the University of Oklahoma, but in Graz, Austria, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Haifa, Israel. The recipient of numerous grants, Dr. Karriker has published articles, essays, and monographs on women's writing, contemporary Russian film, glasnost and cultural change, and the Russian iconclastic filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky. Her articles, translations, and reviews have appeared in "The Russian Review," "Iskusstvo kino," "Kinovedcheskie zapiski," "Canadian-American Slavic Studies," "Ekran," "South Central Review," "World Literature Today," and "Philological Papers," among others. Her most recent publication was "Examining the Evidence: Gendered Violence in Post-Communist Cinema," in "Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium" in 1998. Alexandra Heidi Karriker, Associate Professor of Russian, received her Ph.D. from Brown University and taught at Stanford University and the University of Wyoming before coming to the University of Oklahoma in 1975. She teaches Russian language, literature, and film courses, and she is a member of the Women's Studies Faculty. From 1991-1999 she served as the Director of Film and Video Studies, an interdisciplinary program in the College of Arts and Sciences. She has organized many colloquia and symposia, not only at the University of Oklahoma, but in Graz, Austria, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Haifa, Israel. The annual Women in Film conference, which has attracted international scholars to the campus for the past five years, is scheduled for March 2000. The recipient of numerous grants, Dr. Karriker has published articles, essays, and monographs on women's writing, contemporary Russian film, glasnost and cultural change, and the Russian iconclastic filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky. Her articles, translations, and reviews have appeared in "The Russian Review," "Iskusstvo kino," "Kinovedcheskie zapiski," "Canadian-American Slavic Studies," "Ekran," "South Central Review," "World Literature Today," and "Philological Papers," among others. Her most recent publication was "Examining the Evidence: Gendered Violence in Post-Communist Cinema," in "Memory, History and Critique: European Identity at the Millennium" in 1998.