Katharina Wiedlack (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9236-8819) is Assistant Professor of Anglophone Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna. Her research focuses primarily on queer and feminist theory, popular culture, postsocialist, decolonial and disability studies. Recently, she co-edited a special issue of Feminist Critique on “Queering Concepts on/from a Post-Soviet Perspective.” Other recent publications are “The Romanovs on Contemporary American TV Nostalgia for White Imperialism,” Historical Reflections, 50, 2 (2024), pp. 46–60, doi: 10.3167/hrrh.2024.500204 and “Lily Golden Long Journey Home: Life Writing and the Archive of Internationalism.” Gazette: Black Feminist Interantionalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production 1, 1, pp. 25- 32. Her most current research project “Rivals of the Past, Children of the Future: Localizing Russia within US National Identity Formation from a Historical Perspective” (V 741), funded by the Austrian Science Fund, investigates Russian American encounters, and the mobilization of values and identities from the 18th to the early 20th Century.
