Dr. Anna Krivoruchko is a specialist in Russian cinema, visual arts and literature. She has taught language, literature and culture at university level for many years and has published and continues to research in the areas of Russian and comparative literature, law and literature and visual culture. Her M.A. thesis from the Department of Art History at the European University at Saint Petersburg is on the ekphrasis of icons. Her PhD dissertation (University of Southern California) focuses on literary and cinematic texts, which, counter to the Russian legal canon’s pessimistic treatment of law-related themes, see justice prevail. She is a devoted cinephile, with admiration for the films of Wong Kar-wai, Peter Greenaway, Tarkovsky and Andrey Zvyaginstsev.