Eeva Kuikka Author

Saara Ratilainen, Senior Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland. The PI of the Research Council of Finland funded project “Mediated Feminism(s) in Contemporary Russia (FEMCORUS 2021–2025).” Her field of expertise covers Russian-language media and cultural studies, especially digital networks, gender and feminist studies. She has published numerous articles and chapters for journals and collective volumes.

Galina Miazhevich is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media, and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. Galina completed a 2-year AHRC-funded project on media representation of non-heteronormative sexualities in Russia (2018-2020). Galina has an extensive publication record in the field of media, culture and area studies.

Daniil Zhaivoronok is a doctoral student at Tampere University and a researcher in the project FEMCORUS Mediated feminism(s) in Russia. His academic interests center on the interactions between feminist politics and the hybrid media environment in Russia.

Eeva Kuikka is a postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, Finland, specializing in Indigenous cultures and non-Russian ethnicities in the Russian Federation from a post-colonial point of view. Dr. Kuikka’s doctoral research addressed human-animal relations in Indigenous literatures of the Soviet North. A book based on her doctoral dissertation is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.