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Research interests

Main Areas of Work and Research Interests

  • Critical Animal Studies
  • Critical Posthumanism
  • Ecocriticism
  • Ecocide in the USSR and its manifestations in contemporary culture
  • Contemporary art and literature from an environmentalist perspective
  • Polish and Russian literature
  • Art and Science
  • Contemporary philosophy and biopolitics
  • Theory of Comparative Literature

Current research project: “Caring for the Others: Between the Ecological Poetics of Andrey Platonov and Varlam Shalamov”

Lectures and Presentations in 2023:

  • “Post-Soviet Ecologies: Art & Theory” — online presentation, reading session, and discussion with Posthuman Studies Lab (Ekaterina Nikitina and Nikita Sazonov) within the DFG Network “Russian Ecospheres” (Philipp Kohl), Munich and Zurich. 12.12. 2023.
  • “A Dwelling Place for the Future: Early Soviet Science Fiction and Adventure Narratives About Habitat”. “Disruptive Imaginations” Conference at the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, Dresden University of Technology. 18.08.2023.
  • “Morphing the Human. (Ad)ventures in the early Soviet Union” (co-author: N. Sazonov). The Colloquium of the Institute of Slavic Philology, LMU Munich. 14.06.2023.

Lectures and Presentations in 2022:

  • “Contemporary Art Theories” — a monograph course at the Art and Science International Educational Program, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg. Autumn 2022.
  • “Quick Guide for Creating Feral Automated Systems” (co-author: N. Sazonov). “Landscape and General Ecology” Conference at the Institute for the History of Art, University of Vienna. 16–17.09.2022.
  • “Feral Automated System”. Panel discussion “A Plantless Planet: Art and Science as a Tool for Plant Resistance” at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. 11.09.2022
  • “Contemporary Art Theories” and “Ethics of Science and Technologies” — the monograph courses at the Art and Science International Educational Program, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg. Academic year 2021/2022.

Lectures and Presentations in 2021:

  • “Body, Technologies, and Limits of the Human”. “Museum of Sensations: Web and Digital Technologies as Museum Accessibility Tools” Conference at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow. 01–02.04.2021.
  • “Philosophy of Nature” — series of lectures and workshops in the educational program “Nature in the City. Non-Human Heterotopias” at the State Museum of the History of Saint-Petersburg. 30.07–24.08.2021.
  • “Critical Posthumanism” and “Ethics of Science and Technologies” — the monograph courses at the Art and Science International Educational Program, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg. Academic year 2020/2021.
  • “Navigating the Lost Scales” jointly taught with N. Sazonov at The New Centre for Research and Practice, New York. 21.11.2020 – 09.01.2021. online.
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