{"631891":{"#nid":"631891","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Death Studies Scholar Khapaeva\u2019s \u2018Celebration of Death\u2019 Gains New Notice","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy Michael Pearson\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Dina Khapaeva\u0026rsquo;s 2017 book \u003Cem\u003EThe Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture\u003C\/em\u003E has been noted by a Russian-book writer for Forbes\u0026rsquo; Russian-language edition as one of the country\u0026rsquo;s most anticipated books of 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EForbes freelancer Natalya Lomykina included Khapeava\u0026rsquo;s book, newly translated into Russian, in her list for the Russian-language version of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.forbes.ru\/forbeslife-photogallery\/391125-tramp-i-chernobyl-samye-ozhidaemye-novinki-non-fikshn-2020-goda?photo=5\u0022\u003EForbes\u003C\/a\u003E for its rigorous approach to the examination of society\u0026rsquo;s fascination with death. Khapaeva\u0026rsquo;s book has also been mentioned in several recent reviews or interviews in Russian media.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/khapaeva\u0022\u003EKhapaeva\u003C\/a\u003E, a faculty member in the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/iac.nas.gatech.edu\/mpearson34\/Editorial\/Current%20Stories\/modlangs.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/a\u003E at the Georgia Institute of Technology and frequent commentator on Russian culture and politics, teaches Russian and specializes in death studies and Russian and American popular culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture \u003C\/em\u003Einvestigates cultural fixations with monsters and how those attitudes shape cultural views towards humanity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I argue that the cult of death reinvents death as entertainment and results from a disillusionment with humanity that renders monsters attractive,\u0026rdquo; Khapaeva wrote in the introduction to the book. \u0026ldquo;The cult of death signifies a rejection of the idea of human exceptionalism and is grounded in a long-standing tradition of the critique of humanism.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2019, Khapaeva edited and contributed to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gmc.iac.gatech.edu\/news\/item\/624164\/professor-khapaeva-publishes-book-eating-monsters-anthropocentrism-popular\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMan-Eating Monsters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, which examines representations of humans as food sources in the modern imagination.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Modern Languages is a unit of the \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/iac.nas.gatech.edu\/mpearson34\/Editorial\/Current%20Stories\/iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Dina Khapaeva\u0026rsquo;s 2017 book \u003Cem\u003EThe Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture\u003C\/em\u003E has been noted by a Russian-book writer for Forbes\u0026rsquo; Russian-language edition as one of the country\u0026rsquo;s most anticipated books of 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dina Khapaeva\u0027s book \u0027The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture\u0027 has just been translated into Russian and is attracting notice in Russia."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2020-01-30 16:22:27","changed_gmt":"2020-01-30 16:52:48","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"441101":{"id":"441101","type":"image","title":"Dina Khapaeva","body":null,"created":"1449256190","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:50","changed":"1539024312","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:45:12","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Dina Khapaeva","file":{"fid":"203074","name":"dinakhapaevaweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":34304,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dinakhapaevaweb_0.jpg?itok=WXfe7j-L"}}},"media_ids":["441101"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"183767","name":"death studies"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmichael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.2290\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}