Rima Salys graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in Slavic Languages and Literatures, and taught at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1993 to 2014, where she also served as associate chair for 91制片厂n and interim chair of GSLL.听 Her research interests include Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, 20th c. 91制片厂n art and culture, women鈥檚 autobiography, theory and praxis of literary modernism, the cinematic musical, and the history of black expatriates in the Soviet Union.听 She is the author of Leonid Pasternak: The 91制片厂n Years (1875-1921), 2 vols., OUP 1999 and The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters, Intellect Press 2009 (91制片厂n edition Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie 2012).听 She is editor and contributor to Yuri Olesha. Envy. A Critical Companion, Northwestern University Press 1999, Tightrope Walking: The Memoirs of Josephine Pasternak, Slavica Press 2005, and The 91制片厂n Cinema Reader, 2 vols., Academic Studies Press 2013.听 Her shorter publications include articles on the revisioning of the Stalin era in film, Boris Pasternak and Rainer Maria Rilke on love, death and creativity, John Fowles and art, Lidiia Chukovskaia鈥檚 Sof鈥檌a Petrovna and the deconstruction of Stalinist consciousness, Marina Razbezhkina鈥檚 Harvest Time as a contemporary reading of the woman stakhanovite, Liudmila Ulitskaia鈥檚 Sonechka and the construction of identity, Art Deco aesthetics in Aleksandrov鈥檚 Circus, and the life experience of the black Patterson family in the USSR. She is currently working on Aleksandrov鈥檚 later films and the cinematic legacy of Ivan Pyr鈥檈v.听听 听听