Gabriella A. Ferrari

Gabriella A. Ferrari, is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Gabriella holds a B.A. in Classics and Slavic Studies from Brown University and has previously worked as a Russian art cataloguer and researcher in London. Her research interests focus on modernist aesthetics and the intersection of image and text in Soviet culture. Her work has recently focused on Soviet propaganda books from the 1920s and 30s, Soviet cinema, and Moscow Conceptualism. Her dissertation, titled Propaganda Matters: On the Material Properties of Soviet Ideology, looks at the importance of materials in shaping Soviet ideological narratives.