Books in progress
Homophobia:
Soviet and Post-Soviet
This is a monograph project for Cambridge Elements Series “Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History.” This book offers an accessible introduction to histories and cultures of homophobia across the post-Soviet region in the 20th and 21st centuries (slated to be published in 2024-2025).
A History of Russian Queer Theater:
From Perestroika to Putin
This monograph is the first scholarly work to cover Russian queer theater from the late 1980s to the Putin era. It looks at over thirty years of negotiations of LGBTQ+ subjectivities through stage productions and dramatic texts and explores what role official and independent theater institutions have played in forging queer identities across Russia (slated to be published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama in 2026).
As part of this research project, I have also compiled and translated an anthology of contemporary queer plays by Russian playwrights that came out with Bloomsbury Methuen Drama in October 2021.
Published Work
Monographs
Crossing Soviet Thresholds: Privacy in Late Soviet Literature. Passau: University of Passau, 2024 (open access under https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-uni-passau/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1377).
Edited Volumes
Special Journal Issues
“Digital Selves: Embodiment and Subjectivity in New Media Cultures in Eastern Europe and Eurasia,” special issue of Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media 21, guest eds. Cassandra Hartblay and Tatiana Klepikova https://www.digitalicons.org/issue21/ (open access).
Book-length Translations
Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights, edited and translated by Tatiana Klepikova (London/New York: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021).
Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (2nd Russian edition—I re-translated the book into Russian). Published as Den Khili, Drugaia istoriia: Seksual’no-gendernoe dissidentstvo v revolutsionnoi Rossii (Moscow: Garage, 2022).
Refereed Articles & Chapters
2024 “Do Feminist Milestones Burn? Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer in Times of War.” In: Milestones in Feminist Performance, eds. Tiina Rosenberg, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Sandra D’Urso. London/New York: Routledge, 197–215.
2023. “Monsters with a Family and Tradition: Queering Family and Mapping Queer Culture in Central Russia’s Vampires,” special cluster in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, “Contemporary Russian Queer Cinema” guest ed. Vlad Strukov.
2022. “A Quare Story of the North Caucasian Lesbian and Trans Women in the Staging of The Voices.” In Queering Russian Media and Culture, ed. Galina Miazhevich. London/New York: Routledge, pp. 95–113.
2021. “(Trans-) Forming Gender Ideologies through Performance: Cyberfeminism and Posthumanism of Maailmanloppu Theatre.” In Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminisms in Contemporary Performance, eds. Tiina Rosenberg, Sandra D’Urso, and Anna Renée Winget. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2020. “On Privacy and Its ‘Comfort Zones’: Revisiting State Socialist Contexts.” In Outside the “Comfort Zone”: Performances and Discourses of Privacy in Late Socialist Europe, edited by Tatiana Klepikova and Lukas Raabe. Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (co-authored with Lukas Raabe).
2020. “‘If a Cutie, Then Always Misha’: Evgenii Kharitonov’s Queer Masculinities” In Go East! LGBTQ+ Literature in Eastern Europe, edited by Alojzija Zupan Sosič and Andrej Zavrl. Ljubljana 2019: Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts. Open-access PDF.
2018. “Privatheit und Überwachung. Vorbemerkungen” [Privacy and Surveillance: An Introduction] In Privates Erzählen: Formen und Funktionen von Privatheit in der Literatur des 18.–21. Jahrhunderts [Private Narratives: Forms and Functions of Privacy in the Literature of the 18th–21th Centuries], edited by Steffen Burk, Tatiana Klepikova, and Miriam Piegsa. Frankfurt am Main 2018: Peter Lang, pp. 173–78. PDF
2018. “Digital Russians’ Home and Agora: The Runet Between the Private and the Public Spheres.” In Privatheit in der digitalen Gesellschaft [Privacy in a Digital Society], edited by Steffen Burk et al. Berlin 2018: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 235–57. PDF
2015. “Privacy as They Saw It: Private Spaces in the Soviet Union of the 1920–1930s in Foreign Travelogues.” Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie 71 (2), pp. 353–89. PDF
Tatiana Klepikova 