I am an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago. My research, writing, and art collaborations focus on the formation and collapse of the Soviet empire from the vantage point of the Caucasus and Central Asia. My work explores forms of belonging — from anticolonial and anarcho-communist to new right fascist and ethno-nationalist formulations — by attending to how forms of erotic, ethnic, and gendered embodiment inform worldbuilding projects.
