birth_date: 1970-04-11 00:00:00
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name: Madina Tlostanova
about: MADINA TLOSTANOVA is a trans-diasporic scholar with mixed ethnic origins (Circassian, Tatar, Uzbek) born and living in Moscow but extensively teaching, publishing and doing research abroad. She is a professor of philosophy at the School of public policy of the Russian presidential academy of national economy and public administration in Moscow (since 2012). Previously she worked for 9 years as a professor of philosophy and cultural studies at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. In 1997-2003 she was employed as a senior researcher at Gorky Institute of World Literature (Russian Academy of Sciences). Trained in Moscow State University as an American Studies major focusing on US Southern fiction, she gradually drifted to multicultura MADINA TLOSTANOVA is a trans-diasporic scholar with mixed ethnic origins (Circassian, Tatar, Uzbek) born and living in Moscow but extensively teaching, publishing and doing research abroad. She is a professor of philosophy at the School of public policy of the Russian presidential academy of national economy and public administration in Moscow (since 2012). Previously she worked for 9 years as a professor of philosophy and cultural studies at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. In 1997-2003 she was employed as a senior researcher at Gorky Institute of World Literature (Russian Academy of Sciences). Trained in Moscow State University as an American Studies major focusing on US Southern fiction, she gradually drifted to multiculturalism (on which her doctoral dissertation was focused) and transcultural aesthetics to finally shift to post/decolonial interpretation of the post-soviet space, subjectivities, literature and the arts. Today Tlostanova’s interests focus around a critique of modernity/coloniality from a decolonial perspective and conceptualizing the post-soviet cultural imaginary and political society in the changing world. Tlostanova has studied, taught and conducted research in several universities in the USA - University of Mississippi as a graduate student (1992-1993), Middlebury College as an instructor at the Russian language summer school (1996-1997), Duke University, as a scholar-in-residence at the Institute of International and Interdisciplinary Studies (2007-2008); and in Europe – University of Bremen, Germany, as a visiting professor through DAAD (2006, 2011); Linkoping University, Sweden, as a scholar in residence at the excellence center GEXcel International Collegium for Advanced Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (2013), etc. From 2002 she has been a member of the international decolonial collective, and participated in a number of conferences, exhibitions, and publications organized by this group. Tlostanova has authored the following books: Multicultural Discourse and Late 20th Century US Fiction (Moscow, Nasledie: 2000, in Russian), Post-soviet Literature and the Aesthetics of Transculturation (Moscow: URRS, 2004, in Russian), From the Philosophy of Multiculturalism to the Philosophy of Transculturation (New York: Northern Cross, 2008, in Russian), Decolonial Gender Epistemologies (Moscow: Maska, 2009, in Russian), The Sublime of Globalization? Sketches on Trans-cultural Subjectivity and Aesthetics (Moscow: URRS, 2005, in English), Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands (N.Y., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, in English) and Learning to Unlearn. Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012, co-authored with Walter Mignolo). Currently she is working on a book on decolonial aesthesis in the post-soviet space tentatively entitled Unbinding the Imaginary: the Postsoviet (Absent Actor) in the Transmodern World. ...more