Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and The Interstices of Cinema, Book manuscript under contract at Oxford University Press.

This Video Does Not Exist, an essay film.

Anonymous Cinema in the Global Age, Book manuscript.

“Her Black Screens: Withholding as Creative Strategy in Marguerite Duras’s Cinema.” Under consideration for Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, De Gruyter.

“‘If censorship is still with us, then maybe this is how we should watch the movies’: Black Screen Footage in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century.” Under consideration for The Controversial Film in a Global Context, Bloomsbury.

Tanya Shilina-Conte (with Bruce Jackson), Yevtushenko in Buffalo, Center Working Papers, 2020. Book.

Tanya Shilina-Conte, “Midway upon the Road”: A Study of Openings in Contemporary Short Fiction. University of Kostroma Press. Kostroma, Russia, 2011. In Russian. Book.

Articles:

“The Sartorial Islamic Baroque: Folded Feminisms in Mania Akbari’s and Ana Nyma’s (Anonyme) Experimental Cinema.” Forthcoming in Screen 63, no. 1 (2022), Oxford University Press.

“Silence as Elective Mutism in Minor Cinema.” Forthcoming in Film-Philosophy 25, no. 2 (2021), Edinburgh University Press.

“Phone Footage as Anonymous Cinema: Peter Snowdon’s and Ana Nyma’s (Anonyme) Documentary Practice.” Forthcoming in Frames Cinema Journal 18 (Summer 2021), University of St. Andrews, UK.

 “Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Lessons of Darkness’: Affect, Non-Representation, and Becoming-Imperceptible.” Iran Namag, A Quarterly of Iranian Studies 2, no. 4 (Winter 2018): 94–123. University of Toronto, Canada.

“Filmmaking Machine and the Black Screen as a Tool of Deterritorialization.” Leitura: Teoria & Prática 36, no. 72 (2018): 15–28. Associação de Leitura do Brasil. Translated into Portuguese.

“’How it Feels:’ Black Screen, Negative Event, and 9/11 Cinema.” Studia Phaenomenologica, Vol. XVI, Special Issue on “Film and Phenomenology,” 2016

“Black Screen, White Page: Ontology and Genealogy of Blank Space.” Special issue on “Writing in Film.” Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, Routledge, 2015

“Imaginal Border Crossings and Silence as Negative Mimesis in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention.” Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film. Scarecrow Press, 2013

Articles in Russian

“Reconstruction and Retardation in Literary Narrative.” Language, Literature, Culture:  Dialogue of Generations, Chuvash State University Press, 2004.

 “Expositional Retardation in Contemporary Literary Discourse and ‘In Medias Res’ Device in Ancient Epic Poem.” Readings of Saint-Petersburg Herzen State University, 2003.

 “Initial Predicative Semantic Gaps and Peculiarities of Text Perception.” Studia Linguistica XII, 2003.

“Expositional Retardation as a Stylistic Device.” Readings of Saint-Petersburg Herzen State University, 2002.

 “‘The Gapping Effect’ and Expositional Retardation.” Studia Linguistica XI, 2002.

“To the Problem of the Pre-text and Fore-text Distinction.” Interconnection of Literature and Art in the Culture of the XX Century, 2001.

Faculty Research Fellowship. Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo. 2021-22

The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy Research Grant. 2021-22

The Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Program Award. SUNY and United University Professions. Fall 2020

Centro Congressi Stefano Franscini Grant. Media History from the Margins Summer School. Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. August 2018

New York Council for the Humanities Action Grant. New York, NY. October 2016

Best Paper Award. Lisbon Consortium on Transvisuality. Catholic University of Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal. July 2016

riverrun Liberal Arts Fellowship. Arts and Culture in Western New York, non-profit organization. Buffalo, NY. Fall 2015

Princeton-Weimar Grant. International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy. Bauhaus-Universität. Weimar, Germany. June 2013

Philipps University and Central Connecticut State University Travel Grant. Marburg, Germany. June 2013

Best Experimental Video Award for Abstract Visions. Delta International Film and Video Festival. Delta State University. Cleveland, Mississippi. March 2012

Canadian-American Studies Grant. University at Buffalo. Spring 2012

Russian National Award. Russian Ministry of Culture and Cinematography. Moscow, Russia. 2006

George Soros Professional Development Travel Grant. Open World Society. Central European University, Curriculum Resource Center. Budapest, Hungary. 2002

American Councils for International Education Travel Grant. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States, Office of Global Educational Programs. Oregon, USA. 2001

National Council for Economic Education Travel Grant. United States Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Kiev, Ukraine. 2004; Prague, Czech Republic. 2000; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 2000; Latvia-Russia-Kyrgyzstan. 1996-1997

Curriculum Vitae