Principal investigator
Saara Ratilainen is a University Lecturer at Tampere University.
Expertise: Digital media studies, Cultural Studies, gender studies, cultural history of the Russian-language internet (Runet)
Latest publications: “The Web Series ‘Bitches’ and post-Legacy Television in Russia” in Russian TV Series in the Era of Transition: Genres, Technologies, Identities. Edited by Alexander Prokhorov, Elena Prokhorova, and Rimgaila Salys. Academic Studies Press, 2021.
Social media: Twitter @sratilai
Email: saara.ratilainen ( @ ) tuni.fi
Senior researcher
Galina Miazhevich is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media, and Culture, Cardiff University, UK, PI of an AHRC Leadership Fellowship (2018-2020), exploring media representations of non-heteronormative sexuality in Russia. The project plan was conceived together with Dr. Miazhevich. She worked on several projects dealing with media representations of Islam and multiculturalism in Europe and democracy in post-communist Europe.
Expertise: Feminist theory, Media studies, post-Soviet studies
Latest publications: Ksenia Sobchak ‘against all’ or everyone against Ksenia Sobchak?
Email: miazhevichg ( @ ) cardiff.ac.uk
Researcher
Daniil Zhaivoronok is a PhD student, researcher, Tampere University. Daniil’s recent academic activities include research on the development of feminist movement in contemporary Russia and teaching sociology of gender at the European University at St. Petersburg. He has appeared in leading Russian media as an expert of feminist theory and movement and collaborated as a researcher and expert with various feminist and LGBTQ organizations in Russia.
Expertise: Feminist and Queer theory, Gender studies.
Latest publications: First as tragedy – then as “boom-boom”: politicians and images of contemporary Russian pop-feminism [Сначала в виде трагедии – потом в виде «бум-бум»: политики и образы современного российского поп-феминизма], Neprikosnovennyi Zapas, 2020.
See the full list of publications at Academia.
Social media: Telegram channel Смерть и мебель
Email: daniil.zhaivoronok ( @ )tuni.fi
Researcher
Photo credits: Jonne Renvall/Tampere University
Eeva Kuikka works in FEMCORUS as a postdoctoral researcher. In FEMCORUS, she focuses on intersections of feminist issues and ethnicity in the context of digital medias. Dr. Kuikka’s doctoral research addressed human-animal relations in Indigenous literatures of the Soviet North. A book based on that study will be published at the end of the year 2025 by Palgrave MacMillan.
Expertise: Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous studies, Human-Animal Studies, Gender studies
Email: eeva.kuikka (@) tuni.fi
Researcher
Inna Perheentupa works as a postdoctoral researcher in FEMCORUS, and will take part in the project during its final phase. In FEMCORUS she will focus mainly on issues of hierarchy and class in the context of mediated feminisms in Russia, and how these are produced for example between different Russian regions and individuals. Her PhD is an ethnographic study on feminist politics in Russia based on which, a book will be published in 2022 titled Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia. An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Bristol University Press).
Expertise: Political sociology, Feminist studies, Gender studies, Ethnographic inquiry and methods.
Latest publications: Inna’s articles have been published in journals such as the European Journal of Women’s Studies, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and the Finnish journal of Cultural Studies Kulttuurintutkimus. She is also one of the editors of the volume Assembling Therapeutics: Culture, Politics, Materiality (Routledge 2019).
Link to other publications: Inna’s publications.
Email: inna.perheentupa (@ ) utu.fi
Research assistant
Alisa Virtanen graduated from Tampere University’s Master’s Programme in Languages specializing in Russian contemporary culture and media in 2023. They worked as research assistant in FEMCORUS from August 2022 until July 2024 assisting with research interviews, project coordination, event organization and communication.
Expertise: Russian studies, cultural studies, media studies
Email: alisa.virtanen ( @) tuni.fi