Professor Dr. Anna Toropova

Biography

Anna Toropova is a researcher at the University of Copenhagen, focusing on cultural medical history, particularly concerning Russia and the Soviet Union. Her primary research interests lie in examining how cinema played a significant role in the transformation of the human subject during the Soviet era and how Soviet political and cultural agendas overlapped with psychological disciplines. She authored a monograph titled 'Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre Politics Affect Stalin,' published in 2020, which sheds light on the emotional revolution facilitated by Stalin-era cinema, exploring its crucial influence in cultivating emotional norms associated with happiness and antagonism towards enemies. Toropova has co-authored the edited volume 'Technologies Mind Body,' which investigates the techniques of psycho-physiological transformation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. She is currently writing a book that addresses the intersection of medical knowledge with cinematic technology in revolutionary campaigns aimed at the psycho-physiological reforging of the early Soviet Union. Additionally, she is conducting research on the history of scientific and cultural engagements concerning traumatic neurosis in the Soviet context.

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