Alina Parker
Lecturer, Writing Program
OFFICE HOURS:
Wednesday 1:00-3:00PM or by appointment
Alina Parker (Ryabovolova) is a full-time lecturer teaching in the Writing Program and in the Russian, Eurasian, and Polish Studies Program at UMass Amherst. She holds an MA in Communication from Washington State University and a PhD from UMass (2022). Her interdisciplinary dissertation discusses politics of history in Russia after the Crimean annexation. Her research interests include postsocialism, Eastern Europe, political contention, far-right politics, and historical memory, which she examines using discursive, performative, and institutional methods of analysis. Her research has been published in East European Politics and Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research. She also taught at Smith College, the University of Tampa, and the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, Russia. She is originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
DISSERTATION
Parker, A. (2022). Russia—My History: The Amazing Transformations of a History Exhibit in Post-Crimean Russia. UMass Amherst.
PUBLICATIONS
- Ryabovolova, A., & Hemment, J. (2019). “Je suis Satisfaction:” Russian politics in the age of hybrid media. East European Politics, 1-18.
- Ryabovolova, A. (2018). We have been to Bolotnaya: Russian protest, the online public sphere, and the discourse of division. In P. Surowiec & V. Štetka (Eds.). Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge.
COURSES RECENTLY TAUGHT
- Russian 297P: Special Topics - Memory Wars: Culture, Identity and Narrative in Ukraine and Russia
- Russian 390A: Memory Wars: Politics, Identity, and Narrative in Ukraine and Russia