Dr. Maria Taroutina

Maria Taroutina is Associate Professor of Art History at Yale–NUS College in Singapore and specializes in the art of Imperial and early Soviet Russia. She is the author of The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival, which was awarded the 2019 USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). She has also co-edited two volumes, Byzantium/Modernism: The Byzantine as Method in Modernity and New Narratives of Russian and East European Art: Between Traditions and Revolutions. Her work has been featured in the Slavic Review, The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine, and Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, for which she guest-edited an issue in 2019. She is currently working on two new book projects: a monograph on Mikhail Vrubel and a study of Russian Orientalist painting, tentatively titled Exotic Aesthetics: Art, Race, and Representation in Imperial Russia. She currently serves as the President Elect of the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture (SHERA).