Hazel Boxhall, who joined KiKu in August 2008, is the editor's assistant and manages the correspondence for the journal. Any queries should be directed to her at KinoKultura.
Birgit Beumers is based at the University of Bristol and specialises on contemporary Russian culture, especially cinema and theatre. She is the author of A History of Russian Cinema and the editor of the journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema.
The Co-Editors share the assessment and editing of articles and film reviews. At present they are:
Anthony Anemone is the Chair and Associate Provost of Foreign Languages at The New School University, New York, where he also teaches Russian literature and cinema.
Seth Graham is a lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Languages, University College London. His research focus is on contemporary Russian culture, especially film, as well as Central Asian film, gender studies, and humour theory.
Jeremy Hicks is Senior Lecturer in Russian at Queen Mary University of London, where he teaches courses on Russian literature and cinema. His research focuses on issues of documentary film, and he is currently researching Soviet wartime film of the Holocaust.
David MacFadyen is Professor and Chair at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles. As the author of eleven books on various aspects of Russia 's visual arts and literature, he maintains a particular interest in popular culture.
Stephen M. Norris is Associate Professor of History and Director of Film Studies at Miami University (OH). He is currently finishing a book on post-Soviet historical films and researching the life of the Soviet cartoonist Boris Efimov.
Rimgaila Salys is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and teaches 20th-century literature, art and film. Her latest book is on the musical comedy films of Grigorii Aleksandrov (2009).
KinoKultura was founded by Birgit Beumers in 2003 as a quarterly online journal, which is ISSN registered and hosted in the UK. In the summer 2003 Vladimir Padunov of the University of Pittsburgh joined as Deputy Editor and held this post until July 2008.
In November 2006 the KiKu-Forum was launched with support from Professor David Punter, Research Director for the Arts Faculty at the University of Bristol; it was moderated by Gerald McCausland from the University of Pittsburgh. In September 2008
Ulrike Hartmann took over the forum management and moved it to LiveJournal.
In 2006 KinoKultura was awarded a diploma by the Filmmakers' Union Critics Guild.
People who served on the editorial team: Christina Stojanova (2009);
Dr Beumers, KinoKultura, 17 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TE, UK. Email: KinoKultura