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Jillian Porter holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Her research explores intersections between 91��Ƭ��n economic history and cultural production from the late 18^th��century to the present. At CU, she teaches courses on 91��Ƭ��n literature and 91��Ƭ��n/Soviet cinema.

Porter’s first book,��Economies of Feeling: 91��Ƭ��n Literature under Nicholas I��(Northwestern UP, 2017),��offers new explanations for the fantastical plots of mad or blocked ambition that helped set the 19^th-century 91��Ƭ��n prose tradition in motion. It compares the conceptual history of social ambition in post-Napoleonic France and post-Decembrist 91��Ƭ�� and argues that the dissonance between foreign and domestic understandings of this economic passion shaped the literature of Nicholas I’s reign (1825–1855). A 91��Ƭ��n translation of��Economies of Feeling��is forthcoming from Academic Studies Press in 2020.

Porter is currently at work on a second book, entitled��The Art of the Queue: From the Revolution to the Putin Era.��This book explores standing in line as a paradigmatic experience of Soviet everyday life and a generator of aesthetic forms. Porter was awarded a 2015-16 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University’s Davis Center for 91��Ƭ��n and Eurasian Studies in support of this project, and she was interviewed about it on the Davis Center's podcast, “The Eurasian Enigma.”��

Porter is also presently conducting research on the rise of the women’s emancipation movement and the emerging science of energy in late nineteenth-century 91��Ƭ��.��