Ekaterina Vassilieva is a postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her current research project, entitled Fantasy in Power. Literary and Political Authorship in Contemporary Russia, argues that state power in today’s Russia draws on strategies of legitimization usually associated with artistic production. In 2019, Dr. Vassilieva was a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Jordan Center. Her study of Russian culture and politics was funded in 2018-2019 by an “Originalitätsverdacht” fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation.
