Scholar’s Profile

Basic Info

Field: Gender and sexuality studies; LGBTQ studies; migration and mobility; queer studies; ethnography; geopolitics

Short Bio: I am a PhD candidate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the 2018-2019 recipient of Stony Brook’s Graduate Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Research Program. In 2018-2020, I am also a Visiting Scholar at the Jordan Center for the Advance Study of Russia, New York University. My research interests are at the intersections of sexuality, national identity, migration studies, and queer theory. Since 2010, I have been translating films for Side-by-Side LGBT International Film Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia). My doctoral dissertation explores the experiences of non-heterosexual Russian-speaking migrants in the United States with a focus on their agency against the backdrop of the U.S.-Russia geopolitical power play.

Website, Blog, or Social Media Link: My profile at the Stony Brook U website

Recent/Major Publications: Articles

“Sexual Citizens in Exile: State Sponsored Homophobia and Post-Soviet LGBTQ Migration.” The Russian Review (accepted for publication).

“Patriotism, Sentiment, and Male Hysteria: Putin’s Masculinity Politics and the Persecution of Non-heterosexual Russians.” NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. Volume 12, Issue 3-4, 2017. Pp. 302-318.

Book Chapters

“Russian-speaking LGBTQ communities in the West.” The Routledge International Handbook to Gender in Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia, eds. Katalin Fábián, Janet Elise Johnson and Mara Lazda, Routledge (accepted for publication).

“Gender and Politics” (first author Janet Elise Johnson). Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, Sixth Edition. Ed. by Stephen K. Wegren. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. Pp. 215-230.

“Gender and Politics” (first author Janet Elise Johnson). Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, Seventh Edition. Ed. by Stephen K. Wegren. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019. Pp. 189-208.