Research:
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Belarusian literature and art; Internet cultures; protest cultures; twentieth-and twenty-first-century Russian literature and art; post-socialist transition; transnational cultures; Belarusian nationalism and national identity; media studies; postcolonial studies
Education:
A.B., Slavic Studies, Brown University
M.Phil., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Publications:
Dissertation (in progress): “Belarusian Technologies of Resistance: Hacktivism, Artivism, and Digital Cultures in Belarus (1991–present)”
Conference Presentations and Talks:
“Digital Transnational Belarusian Culture,” ASEEES Annual Convention 2023, Philadelphia, PA
“Hacktivism as Artistic Activism: Reading the Cyber Partisans through the Lens of Political Art,” International Congress of Belarusian Studies, Gdańsk, Poland
“The Belarusian Muzhyk: Depictions of the Belarusian Peasant by Nekrasov and Bahushevich,” ASEEES Annual Convention 2021, Virtual
“Fatal Mimicry in Maksim Haretski’s ‘Ruski’” AATSEEEL Annual Convention 2021, Virtual
Honors and Awards:
Fulbright Schuman European Union Open Research Grant (2024–2025)
MacMillan Center International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale University (2024–2025)
Life Worth Living Graduate Course Development Fellowship, Yale University (2024)
MacMillan Center International Travel Grant, Yale University (2023)
MacMillan Center Pre-dissertation Research Award, Yale University (2021)
Council on European Studies FLAS Award, Yale University (declined due to COVID-19) (2020)
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Viciebsk, Belarus (2018–2019)
The Dr. Pranas A. Sveikauskas Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis, Brown University (2018)
Pushkin Prize for Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Brown University (2018)
Research at Brown (RAB) Grant, Brown University (2017)
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Research Grant, Middlebury College (2017)
Professional Activities:
Graduate Assistant Director, Writing Center, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University (2023–present)
Graduate Writing Fellow, Graduate Writing Lab, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University (2023–present)
Graduate Assistant, Fellowships Office, Yale University (2022–present)
Acquisitions Editor – Slavic Studies, Academic Studies Press (2022–2023)
Writing Partner, Writing Center, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University (2019–2023)
Writing Tutor, Warrior Scholar Project, Yale University (2021–2023)
Research Assistant for Professor Douglas Rogers, Department of Anthropology, Yale University (2021)
Research Assistant for Visiting Professor Vera Shevzov, Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University (2020)