Focusing on the Soviet Union during the Stalin era, my research spans film studies, cultural history, and critical theory. I am particularly interested in the emotional repertoire of Stalin-era mass culture. I am currently completing a monograph on genre film and the emotional and affective education of the New Soviet Person under Stalin. I have also recently begun a new research project on psychological studies of Soviet film audiences in the 1930s, which aims to shed new light on the intersection of cinema and biopolitical modernity. My wider research interests include theories of affect and emotion, psychoanalysis, and biopolitics.