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Dr. Tamar Koplatadze is an Associate Professor in Russian at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. Her research focuses on Russian, Caucasus, and Central Asian literature and film, with expertise in 19th-century Russian literature, post-Soviet Russophone culture, and postcolonial theory. She is a leading figure in Russian Postcolonial Studies and currently works on Post-Soviet Ecopoetics, a comparative study of ecocritical works from Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Research Interests:
- Postcolonial identities in post-Soviet literatures
- Ecocritical approaches to post-Soviet cultural production
- Gender and women’s writing in Russian emigration
- Comparative analysis of Soviet and post-Soviet cultural narratives
Media Engagements:
- BBC Art and Ideas: 'Russia and Fear' (2019) discusses postcolonial perspectives on Soviet imperialism
- BBC Free Thinking: 'Sesame Street and Soviet Culture' (2023) explores post-Soviet literary memory
Supervision & Grants: Supervises PhD topics on 19th-century literary anthologies, post-Soviet ecocriticism, and women’s writing in Russian emigration. No grants explicitly listed.
Languages: Fluent in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Modern Greek, Czech, Polish, Catalan, Galician, Yiddish, and Other Slavonic languages.
