Tatiana Krasilnikova is PhD candidate at the department of Slavic Languages with a Certificate in Comparative Literature and Society. She is also completing a Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Tatiana received her BA (2018) and MA (2020) in Russian and Comparative Literature from the Higher School of Economics (Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod). In addition, she studied Italian literature and literary theory at the University of Bergamo and at the University of Milan as part of the Erasmus program (2017; 2019). She is a co-author of the book Boris Pasternak’s Poetic Language. “My Sister – Life” through the Prism of Idioms (2021; written with Pavel Uspenskij) and an author of several articles on Russian 20th century poetry and prose. Her current research focuses on Russophone feminist poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. Besides, she explores the languages of propaganda. Apart from being a literary scholar, Tatiana is a poet. Her poems have appeared in DOXA Magazine, F–writing, ROAR, “Olimp Circus” + TV, Syg.ma, Flagi, and other media, and have been translated into English and Italian; most of them are collected here.
