Alexandra Novitskaya

Alexandra Novitskaya is a PhD Candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University (USA). She has held visiting research appointments at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University, and the Virtual Research Lab at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published articles and book chapters on post-Soviet LGBTQ migration and homophobia in Russia as well as on gender in Russian politics in NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, The Russian Review, Post-Soviet Affairs, and the Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She is completing a dissertation about the experiences of post-Soviet Russian-speaking LGBTQ asylum seekers in New York.