Year Began: 2023

Research interests

Emigration and revolutionary culture in the Russophone and Yugoslav contexts, with a focus on gender and sexuality. 

Education

BA in Translation and Interpreting (University of Bologna, 2019)

Double MA American, European, and Postcolonial Languages and Literatures (Ca’ Foscari, 2023)

The Slavonic World and Italy (Russian State University for the Humanities, 2023)

Film Series

Borderlens: Queer Outlines of Geography and Gender 

Discussant

Tamara Hundorova, Post-Chornobyl: From Catastrophism to Ecocriticism (Princeton Kruzhok 2024)

Anna Whittington, A House Divided: Glasnost and the Fate of the Soviet People, 1985–1991 (SovMode, 2024)

Conferences

On bread and ether: The political imagery in Osip Mandelshtam’s publications on the Berlin daily Nakanune (Places of Slavic Cultures/Slavic Cultures out of Place, Humboldt 2024)

Crossed by borders: The poetics of self-inscription in Galina Rymbu’s post-Soviet cartography (ASEEES, 2024)

Akhmatova’s and Naiman’s translations of Giacomo Leopardi (Akhmatova’s Orphans International Conference, Princeton 2024)

Shame as device: The evolution of intellectual remorse in the poetry of Polina Barskova (Princeton-Columbia Graduate Conference, 2024)