Julie Cassiday

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'''Julie A. Cassiday''' is an American literary scholar and Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian at Williams College. She is known for her expertise in comparative literature. Cassiday is a former president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Julie A. Cassiday |url=https://dlcl.stanford.edu/people/julie-cassiday |website=dlcl.stanford.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Julie A Cassiday |url=https://sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/iccees/en/iccees2020/people/389/Julie%20A%20Cassiday}}</ref>

In 2024, her book ''Russian Style! Performing Gender in Putin’s Russia'' was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, <ref>{{cite web |title=Julie A. Cassiday’s ‘Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power and Putinism’ Shortlisted for Pushkin House Book Prize |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/12/julie-a-cassidays-russian-style-performing-gender-power-and-putinism-shortlisted-for-pushkin-house-book-prize-a85381 |website=The Moscow Times |publisher=The Moscow Times |date=12 June 2024 |access-date=19 February 2026 }}</ref> and won The Svetlana Boym Best Book in Cultural Studies prize by AATSEEL.<ref>{{cite web |title=Book Prize Winners for 2024 |url=https://www.aatseel.org/about/prizes/recent-recipients/book-prize-winners-for-2024.htm |website=American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) |publisher=AATSEEL |date=2024 |access-date=19 February 2026 }}</ref>

==Books== * ''Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action''. Co-edited with Julie A. Buckler and Boris Wolfson, University of Wisconsin Press, 2018 * ''The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen'', Northern Illinois University Press 2000 (Russian translation, Academic Studies Press 2021) * ''Russian Style! Performing Gender in Putin’s Russia'', University of Wisconsin Press, 2024

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==External links== {{More categories needed|date=May 2026}} * [https://russian.williams.edu/profile/jcassida/ Cassiday at Williams College] {{authority control}}

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