Russian literature and visual culture (20C-21C), Soviet and post-Soviet film, cultural memory and nostalgia, new nationalisms, gender theory, feminist theory, spectatorship, psychoanalysis and its reception in the Soviet Union, television studies, fashion studies, post-Soviet media, digital humanities
Tatiana Efremova
Tatiana Efremova works on Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian literature, film, media, and visual culture. Her dissertation explores the relationship between cultural memory and embodiment in contemporary Russian television and film productions, fashion shows, and radical performance art (2000-2020). Tanya holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has received a degree in American Studies from the University of Massachusetts at Boston as a Fulbright graduate student. Her work has appeared in academic journals Digital Icons, Kinokultura, and Senses of Cinema. She has also written on contemporary Russian culture for the online Moscow media The Village. Full CV is available at tanyaefremova.com.