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Alexandra Novitskaya
PhD Student, 2014-present
Contact:
alexandra.novitskaya@stonybrook.edu
alexandra.novitskaya@stonybrook.edu
Education:
BA, MA, Social Philosophy, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, 2009
Advisor: Nancy Hiemstra
Committee: Nancy Hiemstra, Liz Montegary, Izabela Kalinowska-Blackwood
Alexandra Novitskaya is 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 2018-2019, she is a Visiting Scholar at the Jordan Center for
the Advance Study of Russia, New York University. Her research interests are at the
intersections of sexuality, national identity, migration studies, and queer theory.
Together with Janet Elise Johnson, she contributed a chapter on gender in Russian
politics to Putin’s Russia: Past imperfect, future uncertain (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, ed. S. Wegren). Her article "Patriotism, sentiment,
and male hysteria: Putin’s masculinity politics and the persecution of non-heterosexual
Russians" is published in the special issue of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies in 2017. Since 2010, she has been translating films for Side-by-Side LGBT International
Film Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia). Alexandra’s 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. This project has been supported by grants from Stony Brook’s Graduate
Student Employee Union, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign REEEC Summer Research
Lab, and by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies' Graduate Research Prize.