Tetyana Shlikhar is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Pittsburgh. She received her BA and MA in Philology, as well as PhD (Kandidat nauk) in Translation Studies from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). She did a research on drama translation as a Fulbright fellow at Binghamton University, SUNY in 2011-2012. Her current research interests include Soviet film, Stalinist culture, gender studies, and contemporary Russian literature.