Her main research focus is the Soviet avant-garde, and her broader interests lie at the juncture of early film history and media theory, with an emphasis on historical configurations of sensory experience, emotional response, embodiment, and immersive environments. Dr. Hedberg Olenina is currently finalising her monograph, entitled Psychomotor Aesthetics: Movement and Affect in Russian and American Modernity. Her essays on the Russian Formalists, modern dance, and film spectatorship have appeared in Film History, Discourse, Kinovedcheskie zapiski, and several anthologies in Russia and the USA. She holds a PhD. from Harvard, and an M.Phil. from Cambridge University.