Dr. Dustin Condren

Dustin Condren is a 2025-2026 Fulbright Professor in Germany and a visiting researcher at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. He holds a PhD from Stanford University and is an Associate Professor of Russian, affiliate faculty in Film and Media Studies, and a core member of the Romanoff Center for Russian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA. His publications include the recent monograph An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film (Cornell University Press, 2024), a technical and theoretical exploration of the unfinished work of cinema, and the first in-depth analysis of the Soviet filmmaker’s unrealized body of work. He is also the translator into English of two book-length theoretical works by Eisenstein—Disney (2014) and The Primal Phenomenon (2017)—as well as of Leo Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief (HarperCollins, 2012). The research project that he is pursuing at the Filmuniversität analyzes the broad corpus of Soviet films of the 1920s and 1930s to consider the aesthetic, political, and ecological implications of their employment and depiction of non-human animals.