Andrew Chapman
Russian Program Director, Modern Languages and Literatures
Director of the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards
Contact
- GSR 2.210
- 210-458-2935
- andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu
Bio
Dr. Andrew Chapman joined the UTSA Modern Languages department in the Fall of 2021. He directs the Russian program and teaches courses in Russian language as well as comparative studies in the humanities in English (under the CSH course designation). Dr. Chapman also works at UTSA as the Director of the UTSA Office of Nationally Competitive Awards.
Dr. Chapman studied Russian in college, a language that his family once spoke before coming to the United States. After studying abroad in Russia, he became a Russian language major, and following graduation he worked in Russia in the Republic of Buryatia for an ecotourism and education non-profit organization. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, conducting research on topics in Russian literature, culture, and digital media.
His research looks at how media is produced by amateur filmmakers in Russia, from drivers filming the road with their dashcams to citizen journalists covering protests on YouTube. He is a lead editor of the academic journal Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media, which features professors, graduate students, and non academics from all over the world writing about the impact of the internet and digital technology on politics, economics, society, culture and the arts in Russia, Eurasia, and Central Europe.
In the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, he advises students of any major on applications to a number of international awards, including the Fulbright Student Program, the Critical Language Scholarship, and the Gilman Scholarship for Study Abroad. Students are encouraged to contact Dr. Chapman for support on these awards that forward the goals of life-long language learning, experiential learning, and mutual cultural understanding through international travel.
Before coming to UTSA in 2019, he directed the Office of Study Abroad at St. Mary’s University and taught Russian language and literature at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and the College of William and Mary in Virginia.
Teaching
- RUS 4213/CSH 3823: Monumental Cities – St. Petersburg and Moscow in Russian Literature and Film
- RUS 4213/CSH 3823: Russian Pop Music
- RUS 4213/CSH 3823: Russia in the Fake News
- RUS 1014: Elementary Russian I
- RUS 1024: Elementary Russian II
Degrees
- Ph.D., Russian Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh (2013)
- M.A., Russian Literature and Culture, University of Pittsburgh (2007)
- B.A., Russian, University of Rochester (2004)
Honors and Awards
UT San Antonio Library Adopt a Textbook OER grant
Grant to redesign 1st and 2nd year Russian language curriculum to utilize open educational resources. 2024-2026.
One of 30 university faculty/administrators selected to attend two in-person training sessions at Institute for International Education headquarters in New York. 2023.
Presentations
Honors Education at Research Universities, Arizona State University
“College-based Programs as Pathways to Honors: The COLFA Honors Program within the UT San Antonio Honors College.” 2026.
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Conferences
“Simulation of Open Source Intelligence Careers in Russian Media Courses.” 2026.
Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars Teaching Showcase.
“Simulation of Open Source Intelligence Careers in Russian Media Courses.” 2025.
University of Houston Honors College
“Queuetopia: The Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Late Soviet Culture and Beyond.” 2019.
Grants, Patents and Clinical Trials
Publications
Slavic and East European Journal
“‘Let there be Abundance! But Leave a Shortage of Something!’: Distinction, Subjectivity, and the Brezhnev’s Culture of Scarcity.” Slavic & East European Journal 61.3 (2017): 519-541.
Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (Digital Icons)
“The Digital Queue: Flashmobs in Line, Online and the New Aesthetics of Community Building.” Digital Icons 17 (2017): 19-32.
“Car With a Movie Camera: Theorizing the Dash-cam, Cameraman Surrogates, and the Cameraman Caught Unaware.” Digital Icons 15 (2016): 1-20.
“Changing the Terms of Engagement: Recruiting and Politicizing the Cameraman and the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking in Recent Projects by Pavel Kostomarov, Aleksandr Rastorguev and Aleksei Pivovarov.” Digital Icons 11 (2014): 96-112.
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
“Performing ‘Soviet’ Film Classics: Tajik Jimmy and the Aural Remnants of Indian Cinema.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 7.2 (2013): 227-242.
Studies in Slavic Cultures (SISC)
“Trofeinost' and the Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Late Soviet Culture.” Studies in Slavic Cultures 11 (2013): 24-49.
“‘Let there be Abundance! But Leave a Shortage of Something!’: Distinction, Subjectivity, and the Brezhnev’s Culture of Scarcity.” Slavic & East European Journal 61.3 (2017): 519-541.
Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media (Digital Icons)
“The Digital Queue: Flashmobs in Line, Online and the New Aesthetics of Community Building.” Digital Icons 17 (2017): 19-32.
“Car With a Movie Camera: Theorizing the Dash-cam, Cameraman Surrogates, and the Cameraman Caught Unaware.” Digital Icons 15 (2016): 1-20.
“Changing the Terms of Engagement: Recruiting and Politicizing the Cameraman and the Aesthetics of Amateur Filmmaking in Recent Projects by Pavel Kostomarov, Aleksandr Rastorguev and Aleksei Pivovarov.” Digital Icons 11 (2014): 96-112.
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
“Performing ‘Soviet’ Film Classics: Tajik Jimmy and the Aural Remnants of Indian Cinema.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 7.2 (2013): 227-242.
Studies in Slavic Cultures (SISC)
“Trofeinost' and the Phantasmagoria of Everyday Consumption in Late Soviet Culture.” Studies in Slavic Cultures 11 (2013): 24-49.
