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Nina Gurianova is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from Moscow State University in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Columbia University in 2001. Her scholarship fields include literature and art history, with a particular focus on the interrelation and mutual influence of aesthetics and politics within Russian and European modernist avant-garde movements. Gurianova has contributed significantly to the understanding of the profound symbiosis between literary and visual arts. She served as the primary curatorial consultant for the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition on Russian Futurist Constructivist books in 2002 and has participated in organizing notable exhibitions, such as 'Amazons Avant-garde' in 1999 and 'Kazimir Malevich' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2003. Nina has published extensively in Europe, the United States, and Russia, including her influential monograph 'Exploring Color: Olga Rozanova and the Russian Avant-Garde' which was recognized by critics. Her recent book 'Aesthetics Anarchy' won the AATSEEL Book Prize for Literary/Cultural Studies.
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