Dr. Erin Alpert Holmes is a part-time instructor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She has been teaching online classes, including Russian Fairy Tales, Sci-Fi: East and West, and Vampire: Blood and Empire, for the department since 2012. Her research interests include Soviet and Post-Soviet culture and documentary cinema. Dr. Alpert Holmes resides in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and serves as a new teacher mentor in the Aspire program at Cuyahoga Community College.
Courses Taught at Pitt
- RUSS 0090 - Russian Fairy Tales
- SLAV 0660 - Sci-Fi: East and West
- SLAV 0880 - Vampire: Blood and Empire
Education & Training
- PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures - University of Pittsburgh
- MA, Slavic Languages and Literatures - University of Pittsburgh
- BA, Russian Studies and Film Studies minor - College of William and Mary
Representative Publications
“Reinventing Soviet visual memory: a case study of Marina Goldovskaya’s documentary Solovki Power.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 7.2 (July 2013): 207-226.
“The visual in documentary: Sergei Loznitsa and the importance of the image.” Studies in Documentary Film 7.2 (June 2013): 135-146.
Review: “Egor Baranov: Nightingale the Robber.” KinoKultura 40 (April 2013)
Review: “Marek Haltof: Polish Film and the Holocaust.” Slavic and East European Journal 57.1 (Spring 2013): 129-130.
“Survival and Community in Memoirs of the Holocaust in Poland.” Studies in Slavic Cultures 9 (2010): 26-41.