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

Research project: The Soviet (Women’s) Gulags

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.