Natalia Plagmann

Natalia Plagmann is a Lecturer in the Department of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies. Before joining Dartmouth, she taught a variety of courses at the University of Colorado Boulder, and at Princeton University, NYU, and Saint Petersburg State University, while pursuing her graduate and doctoral degrees. Her research interests include contemporary Russian literature and culture, post-Soviet documentary cinema and theater, and media and performance studies. Her dissertation, Human Documents on Screen and Stage: A Contrapuntal Reading of Post-Soviet Documentary, explores documentary films and theatrical productions in Russia in the 1990s-2010s. She has been teaching languages at the university level since 2003 and is interested in language pedagogy, focusing on technology-enhanced and student-centered instruction. A native speaker of Russian, Natalia Plagmann teaches courses in all levels of Russian language, as well as courses in Russian and East European literature and culture. While revising her dissertation as a monograph, she is working on her second book-length project,Theater for the Masses: Media Forms, Publics, and Politics of Mediatized Performance (1934-2024), which centers on the intermedial relationship between theater and technology. In parallel to these projects, she is exploring how labour is thematized, dramatized, and staged in late-Soviet and post-Soviet theater.