Svetlana Boym

Svetlana Boym (Russian: Светла́на Ю́рьевна Бо́йм; 1959^[1] – August 5, 2015)^[2] was a Russian-American cultural theorist, visual and media artist, playwright and novelist. She was the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University.^[3] She was an associate of the Graduate School of Design and Architecture at Harvard University. Much of her work focused on developing the new theoretical concept of the off-modern.