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Tatiana Klepikova

Research Group Leader

Tatiana oversees the research group project. Her work within the group zooms in on queer theater in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and on queer cultures of the South Caucasus.

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Anna Marie Zeitler

Student Assistant


Marie supports the project’s daily tasks: she carries out preliminary bibliographic research, helps out with the organization of project’s events, and writes up press reports.

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Franziska Haug

Postdoc (GDR)

Franziska researches queer aesthetics, gay and lesbian sexuality, and gender in the literature of the GDR.

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Saltanat Shoshanova

PhD candidate (Central Asia)

Saltanat works on queer and feminist literary and performance cultures in Soviet and contemporary Central Asia.

Affiliated researchers

Masha Beketova

Doctoral researcher at HU Berlin