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:

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…