Elizaveta Kheresh is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She is a researcher of Soviet-era underground communities and institutions. She works in field of gender studies and intellectual history. Her last article, "Elena Švarc’s poem 'Crude means bring no bliss': gender poetics and literary inversions," was published in the first volume of Scando-Slavica (2025). In 2023, she was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize in the category of cultural projects. Kheresh is a poet and translator from Italian, German, Polish, Belarusian, and Yiddish. Her first poetry collection will be published in the fall of 2025 with Caesura.