People > Center Associates

Expertise / Renaissance of 'national cultures' in their various forms; film, art, traditional music, oral tales, and folk art performances in Yakutia/Sakha, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgystan.

Current Project / "Kazakh Cinema: Problematizing National Identity"

Foreign Languages / Russian

Education / Ph.D., Slavic Languags and Literatues, University of Texas

Selected Publications

• "Young Kazakh Filmmakers: New "New Wave" on the Road." KinoKultura: Issue 27 (2010). http://www.kinokultura.com/2010/27-knoxvoina.shtml.
• "Is it Easy to be Young in Kazakhstan" 50-minute film of short films by Kazakh Youth, edited and produced by Jane Knox-Voina, Silkway Films and The American Corners Kazakhstan, 2010.
• New 'New' Wave Filmmakers Welcome Their Audiences' Discomfort(Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan), Kinokultura, April 2009. http://www.kinokultura.com/2009/24-knox.shtml.
• "'Uncomfortable' Cinema of the Younger Generation" (Nekomfortnoe' kino molodezhi). Kinoman. Kazakhstan, September, 2008, No. 9 (43), 24-26.
• "Some-where in the steppe" (Gde-to v stepi). Interview with Rustem Adrashev about A Gift to Stalin (Podarok Stalinu), Kinoman, No. 5, May 2008, 5-7.

T / 207-725-3355

E / jknox@bowdoin.edu