Irina Dzero
Modern and Classical Language Studies
Associate Professor
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