Alyssa DeBlasio is Assistant Professor in the Russian Department at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, where she also contributes to the Philosophy Department and the Film Studies program. Her work on Russian philosophical thought has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright-Hays, the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, and the American Council of Teachers of Russian. She has published articles and film reviews in the Russian Review, Studies in East European Thought, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, Kinokultura, and Epistemologiia i filosofiia nauki (Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science).