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.

Elizaveta Kheresh
Graduate Student Associate
Ph.D. Student in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
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