Our Team
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.
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.
Franziska Haug
Postdoc (GDR)
Franziska researches queer aesthetics, gay and lesbian sexuality, and gender in the literature of the GDR.
Saltanat Shoshanova
PhD candidate (Central Asia)
Saltanat works on queer and feminist literary and performance cultures in Soviet and contemporary Central Asia.