Dr. Tania Arcimovich

Project Narratives of Diasporic Identities in Popular Culture: Belarus after 2020

CV

  • 2024 - PhD in Language, Literature, Culture / Applied  
    Theatre Studies, Graduated Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen
  • 2018 - MA in Sociology (Cultural Studies), European Humanities University, Vilnius
  • 2013 - BA in Theatre Studies, Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Minsk

 

Fellowships

  • Since Juli 2026 – Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Berlin (EU4Belarus SALT III)
  • 2024–2026 -  University of Erfurt, the project "Protecting Academia at Risk - Towards a New Policy Agenda for a Thriving Culture of Higher Education in Europe" (Gerda Henkel Foundation)

Jury, Council, and Board Memberships

Editorial Board Member H-Belarus network

Research Interests

  • Cultural Studies
  • Eastern European Histories
  • Art History
  • Women's Studies / Feminist Theory
  • Performance / Theatre Studies
  • Critical Theory

Publications

Books:

2026. “My jak tyja pramacierki” Sliady avanhardaŭ ŭ savieckaj Bielarusi [“We are Like the Foremothers”. Traces of the Avant-gardes in Soviet Belarus]. European Humanities University (forthcoming).

2020. Belarusian eksperimentalnyj teatr v period ottepeli. Mezhdu modernizmom i avangardom [Belarusian Experimental Theatre in the Thaw period. Between Modernism and Avant-garde]. Vilnius: European Humanities University.

Articles:

2026. "Negotiation with the Soviet. Shifts in the Politics of the Body in 21st Century Belarusian Theatre and Performance", in S. Razor and V. Isakava (eds.), Visual Cultures of Belarus in the 21st century,  Bloomsbury Academic (forthcoming).

2026. Belarusian Gender Studies between Academia and Activism: from A Dispersed Field to the Protests of 2020, together with Yanina Reviaka, in F. Cain and D. Gusejnova (eds.), The People and their Universities. Academic Knowledge, Communities in the Aftermaths of Empires, War, and Socialism.  Transcript Verlag (forthcoming).

2026. On the Edge of Failure: Stories of Female Displaced Scholars from Belarus. Topos, 1(1 (56), 2026: 155-173.

2025. “'I Wiped My Tears So People Wouldn’t Know I Was Crying': Women’s Voices in the Belarusian History". Journal of Belarusian Studies, 14(1-2), 5-33.

2024. “The Past is in Front of Us”, or Approaching One Possible History of Belarusian Theatre. Topos Journal for philosophy and cultural studies, (2): 129-144.

2024. "Vitebsk as a 'Third Space' of Belarusian Avant-garde", in Dariusz Kosiński (ed.). A Lexicon of the Central-Eastern European Interwar Theatre Avant-garde. The Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw; Performance Research Books, pp. 153-162.

2023 "Trajectories of Displacement: (Non)Written and Erased Biographies". Topos, Journal of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, no2 (2023): 165-184.

2023. "Belarus", in Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt (eds.). Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance. Taylor & Francis, pp. 25-30.

2020. "The Transformation of the Language of New Drama in Belarus as a Reflection of a New Model of Identity", in J.A.E. Curtis (ed.), New Drama in Russian. Performance, Politics and Protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Bloomsbury Academic.

Others:

2025. Manifest einer Gartenlosen. fototapeta Verlag.