John MacKay is Professor of Film and Media Studies and Professor and Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures and at Yale University. He teaches a wide variety of courses on literature, Russian culture, cultural theory, and film and moving image media. His current research interests include documentary and experimental film, early Soviet culture and its later reception, Marxist theory, the comparative and cross-linguistic study of film and media concepts, and the comparative study of the short story form. He has published among many texts: True Songs of Freedom: Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Russian Culture and Society (2013) and DZIGA VERTOV Life and Work (2018).

Prof. John MacKay will give a lecture on “Dziga Vertov and Man with a Movie Camera (1929),” perhaps the most celebrated non-fiction film ever made.