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Tatsiana Shchurko
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Office: CMC202
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Biography
I am a queer feminist researcher and activist from Belarus, committed to transnational and intersectional feminist theory and practice. As an Assistant Professor of Instruction, I also bring extensive teaching experience in Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) from The Ohio State University. Inspired by bell hooks鈥� idea of pedagogy as a practice of freedom, I see teaching as a way to explore complex social issues and empower students to engage critically across disciplines. My teaching emphasizes collaborative learning and creates a respectful, affirming environment. I draw on my transnational and interdisciplinary background to encourage deep reflection and meaningful dialogue.
My research is grounded in anti-colonial feminist theory, examining the complexities of imperialism within and between Europe, Eurasia, and the United States. In 2023, I received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to support my book project. This work investigates the critical histories of transnational feminism, focusing on connections between U.S. Black women鈥檚 activism and Eurasian knowledge production. My book explores Black feminist solidarities in Eurasia and how these connections inform today鈥檚 anti-imperialist feminist movements.
I bring my research into the classroom, encouraging students to engage critically with global and local issues through an intersectional lens. This approach helps students understand how feminist movements both shape and are shaped by their social and political contexts. In Spring 2025, I also curated a department event series titled Transnational Care. Additionally, I am developing a digital project, which will include teaching resources and components.
Recent Publications
2025 鈥渨e were two ends of one taut rope: Thinking Along with Audre Lorde on Her Way to the Soviet Union and Back in 1976.鈥� Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, special issue 鈥淚ndigenous Feminisms across the World,鈥� 24(1): 37-62. .
2025 鈥淗ow Can Eurasian Borderlands Reshape Transnational Feminism? A Critical Examination of Missing Geographies and Overlooked Genealogies.鈥� WSQ, 53(1&2), 2025: 31-52. .
2024 鈥淗aunting Encounters: Reimagining Hermina Dumont Huiswoud's Trip to the Soviet Union, 1930-1933.鈥� In Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftists Culture After 1917, edited by Bradley Gorski and Philip Gleissner, 398-428. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. .
2023 鈥淔rom Belarus to Black Lives Matter: Rethinking Protests in Belarus through a Transnational Feminist Perspective.鈥� Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, special issue 鈥淕ender (Studies) in Exile,鈥� 8(4): 25鈥�41. .
2021 鈥淧ostcoloniality in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia鈥� (co-authored with Jennifer Suchland). In The Routledge International Handbook to Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by Katalin F谩bi谩n, Janet Elise Johnson, and Mara Lazda, 71鈥�9. New York: Routledge. .
2021 鈥淧ostsocialist Poetics: Interview with Kr褢lex zentr鈥� (co-authored with Lesia Pagulich). In Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice, edited by Redi Koobak, Madina Tlostanova, and Suruchi Thapar-Bj枚rkert, 138鈥�54. London and New York: Routledge. .
2020 鈥�(Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora鈥� (co-authored with Lesia Pagulich). Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies, special issue 鈥淏reaking with Transition: Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives in Eastern Europe,鈥� 3: 91鈥�111. . Reprinted in: Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution, edited by Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora. Routledge, 2023.
Digital publications
2023 鈥淕eographies of Solidarity: Protests in Belarus through a Transnational Feminist Perspective (roundtable).鈥� Feminist Translocalities. .
2022 鈥溾�楳ore and more of us need to become internationalist鈥�: The War in Ukraine, Entangled Imperialisms, and Transnational Feminist Solidarity.鈥� LeftEast, May 2, 2022. .