Tamar Koplatadze on Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature

Dr. Koplatadze is a leading theorist of Post-Soviet Postcolonial Studies. Her specialism covers the literature and culture of Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia from the 19th century to the present day. Her monograph Postcolonial Identities in Central Asian and Caucasian Literature (OUP) is the first book to examine post-Soviet literature from the Caucasus and Central Asia, and to employ postcolonial methodology for this enquiry. Her current book project, Post-Soviet Ecopoetics, is a large-scale comparative study of post-Soviet ecocritical fictions (literature, film, music and art), including from Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.