Madelyn Scarlett

Madelyn Scarlett is a doctoral student in the Slavic Languages and Literatures program and holds a B.S. in Russian from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Russian from the University of Colorado. Her master’s thesis explored conceptions of the oil industry and national identity in diaries and journalism from the period of the Chechen Wars. During her doctoral research she plans to continue engaging with documentary media from the periphery of the former Soviet empire, considering how narratives of energy infrastructures and extractive economies are integrated into decolonial political and cultural movements.