Tamta MELASHVILI
Academic Year:
2018/2019
Field of Study:
Gender Studies
Research Program:
PoM Pontica Magna
Affiliation:
Institute for Gender Studies, Tbilisi State University
Position:
Guest Professor, Writer
Country:
Georgia
My third novel, I plan to work under the fellowship, deals with women’s Gulags during the Stalinist totalitarian regime. It will tell the experience of the prisoners of Akmolinsk camp (1938-1953) showing the lives and endures of women under the Soviet regime. It will be the story about women’s spaces, networks, collaborations and resistances under the totalitarian malice.
A full-length study is available here.