I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. My academic interests include women’s writing and gender studies, the literature of the Gulag, autobiography studies, and East Slavic folklore. In my dissertation, I examine women’s narratives of Stalinist repressions, many of which were first published in tamizdat. Participating in the project gives me a great opportunity to not only contribute to the development of the Tamizdat Project website but also to learn more about the circulation and state of Russian literature abroad.