Rimgaila Salys

{{Short description|Russian literature researcher}}

Rimgaila "Rima" Salys is professor emerita of Russian Program at the University of Colorado Boulder and an expert in 20th century Russian literature, film, and culture.{{cite web|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/S/R/au8364246.html|title=About the Author: Rimgaila Salys|publisher=University of Chicago Press books}} Her research interests include Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, 20th century Russian art and culture, theory and praxis of literary modernism, and Soviet cinematic musical.{{cite web|url=https://www.colorado.edu/gsll/rima-salys|title=Rima Salys|website=UCB website|date=28 April 2015 |accessdate=August 18, 2019}}

Of note is her research in the history of the Patterson family of black expatriates in the Soviet Union, which included James Patterson, who played the black baby boy in the famous soviet musical Circus.{{cite journal|author=Rimgaila Salys|title=The Pattersons: Expatriate and Native Son|journal=The Russian Review|volume=75|issue=3|year=2016|pages=434–456|doi=10.1111/russ.12084}}

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in Slavic Languages and Literatures.

From 1994 to 2014 she taught at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she served as Associate Chair for Russian and Interim Chair for Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.