Irina Dzero
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Associate Professor
Campus:
Kent
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): Fathers, Masculinity, and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema, 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.” Periphērica, 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
Expertise
French
Spanish
cultural linguistics in English
and Russian
political and cultural expectations in film and fiction of Latin America
cultural identity
Spanish
cultural linguistics in English
and Russian
political and cultural expectations in film and fiction of Latin America
cultural identity
Research Institutes and Initiatives
Global Understanding Research Initiative