About Tatiana Klepikova

Tatiana Klepikova is a Freigeist Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Regensburg, where she leads a research group on queer literary cultures under socialism. She received her PhD in Slavic Literary Studies at the University of Passau in 2019 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universities of Toronto and Potsdam. She is the editor and translator of Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of Outside the “Comfort Zone”: Private and Public Spheres in Late Socialist Europe (De Gruyter, 2020, with Lukas Raabe). Her interests are gender, sexuality, and queerness in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, with the focus on drama, performance, literature, and digital cultures.

Tatiana Klepikova is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Regensburg, where she leads a research group on queer literatures and cultures under socialism.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Tatiana:

Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)

July 25, 2024

Modernism at the Beach

Hannah Freed-Thall

Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal C…

Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022)

July 24, 2024

Violent Affections

Alexander Sasha Kondakov

Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of power…

Maryna Shevtsova, "Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices" (Lexington Books, 2024)

June 30, 2024

Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine

Maryna Shevtsova

Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voices came out with Lexington Books at the two-year’s mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion …

Christina M. García, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)

June 28, 2024

Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art

Christina M. García

Christina M. García’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking (University Press of Florid…

Julie A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)

May 14, 2024

Russian Style

Julie A. Cassiday

Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) provides a critical and nuanced analysis of the relationsh…

Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

May 6, 2024

Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982

Rustam Alexander

Rustam Alexander's Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) examines the autobiographies and diarie…