Gerald McCausland is an Associate Professor of Russian at the Defense Language Institute where he has taught since October 2017. He holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., Russian), Middlebury College (BA, Political Science; MA Russian) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (MA, German). His publications include articles on Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Pelevin, and Andrei Platonov as well as translations and film reviews. His current research focuses on post-Soviet Russian identity in contemporary literature and film, particularly on the ways in which that identity is increasingly complicated along allegiances of class, ethnicity, and sexuality.