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Lilya Kaganovsky is Professor of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles 








Kaganovsky received her B.A. in Literature from U.C. Santa Cruz in 1992, with a specialization in English, American, and Russian Literature. She received her M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Columbia University in 1994; and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with an Emphasis in Film Studies from U.C. Berkeley in 2000

From 2001-2022, Kaganovsky was a faculty member in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures and the Program in Comparative & World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she was also affiliated with the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory, the College of Media, the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, and the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies

In 2020, she joined the editorial collegium of the The Russian Review  as Associate Editor for Film & Media

In 2022, she joined the Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages and Cultures at UCLA

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