Tatsiana Zhurauliova

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Tatsiana Zhurauliova

Lecturer

  • Department: Art History and Fine Arts

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In addition to her work at AUP, Tatsiana Zhurauliova holds the position of a Post-doctoral fellow at the Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is an art historian, whose work focuses on the intersection of visual culture and discourses on identity and difference in the United States and in Eastern Europe. Tatsiana received her PhD from Yale University in 2014. Before arriving to Paris, she held the position of a Collegiate Assistant Professor and a Harper and Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. 



Education/Degrees

PhD in History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S. (May 2014)

  • Dissertation: “Arcadia Americana: Landscape Representation in the Work of Pavel Tchelitchew, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Arshile Gorky”
  • Awarded The Frances Blanshard Fellowship Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the History of Art
  • Advisors: David Joselit (Harvard University) and Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University)

MPhil in History of Art, Yale University (2010)

M.A. in History of Art, Yale University (2009)

B.A. in History of Art, summa cum laude, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, U.S. (2006)

B.A. in Cultural Heritage and Tourism, magna cum laude, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania—Minsk, Belarus (2005)

Publications

  1. Zhurauliova Tatsiana & Anastasia Krutikova, eds (forthcoming 2025). Global TV Series and the Political Imagination,   University of Exeter Press.
  2. Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2024). « Sergey Shabohin. L’impulsion archivistique sous le régime autoritaire bélarusse / Sergey Shabohin. The archival impulse under the authoritarian regime in Belarus », Histoire de l’Art, no. 94 : Art et autoritarismes, pp. 207-218.
  3. Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2024). Review of Splendeurs des oasis d’Ouzbékistan/The Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases by Yannick Lintz and Rocco Rante (eds.) and Sur les routes de Samarcande. Merveilles de soie et d’or/On the Roads to Samarkand: Wonders of Silk and Gold, The Art Bulletin 106, no. 1, pp. 126-130, DOI: 10.1080/00043079.2024.2283397.
  4. Zhurauliova Tatsiana and Anastasia Krutikova (2023). « Réimaginer la féminité. La représentation des femmes dans les séries russes contemporaines / Reimagining femininity. The representation of women in contemporary Russian series », Cahiers du Genre, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 59-88, DOI : 10.3917/cdge.075.0059.
  5. Zhurauliova Tatsiana and Hélène Valance (2022). Introduction to “About Time: Temporality in American Art and Visual Culture,” In the Round, Panorama 8, no. 2, DOI: 10.24926/24716839.15008.
  6. Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2020). “Cartography as Collage/Collage as Cartography: The Spatial Turn in Mid-Twentieth-Century Abstraction,” American Art 34, no. 3, pp. 72–91, DOI: 10.1086/712751.
  7. Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2019). “The Nonidentity Problem in Contemporary Belarusian Art,” in New Narratives of Russian and East European Art: Between Traditions and Revolutions, eds Galina Mardilovich and Maria Taroutina, Routledge, pp. 180-192, DOI: 10.4324/9780429028595.

Conferences & Lectures

  1. “Aesthetics of Secrecy: Film and TV Series”, round-table discussion, closing conference of ERC DEMOSERIES, Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, March 6-7, 2025.
  2. “Safety in Art: Collaborative Practices and Aesthetics of Care in Eastern European Art in the Face of War”, symposium Care Aesthetics, Democracy and Digital Arts, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, February 8, 2025.
  3. “Tender Mapping: (TV) Fiction, Cartography, and Emotional Attachment,” presentation for the workshop Closing up on Distance, Università degli Studi di Milano, Gargnano, Italy, June 23-26, 2024.
  4. “The Ordinary Aesthetics of Space: Contesting, Disrupting, Repairing”, conference Everyday Aesthetics and Collective Gestures, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, January 25-27, 2024.
  5. “Imaginary Landscapes: How Popular Culture Shapes our Spatial Imagination”, conference Education Out of School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, December 18-19, 2023.
  6. “Gender and Populism: Female Representation in Contemporary Russian TV Series” (with Anastasia Krutikova), conference (Dé-) Performer le genre dans les médias populaires, Université Paris 1 and Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, May 30-31, 2023.
  7. “Peremen! Visual Culture of Resistance in Contemporary Belarus”, invited speaker, seminar series Communautés imaginées et mise en image des communautés : cultures visuelles et matérielles des nationalismes (laboratoires ICT, Université de Paris, et CRIT, Université de Franche-Comté), Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, October 7, 2021.
  8. “Игра в Прятки: Павел Челищев и Tранснациональный Модернизм (The Game of Hide and Seek: Pavel Tchelitchew and Transnational Modernism)”, invited speaker, Gallery of Underground Anti-culture, Minsk, Belarus, January 27 2021 (on-line).
  9. “Crossing Borders: American Art History as an International Practice”, A Half Century of Fellowship: Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S., October 9, 2020.

Research Areas

Contemporary art and visual culture; intersections of political discourse and representation in art and media; national identities and interculturality; migration, exile, and cultural diaspora; gender and queer studies.