Tatsiana Zhurauliova
Lecturer
- Department: Art History and Fine Arts

In addition to her work at AUP, Tatsiana Zhurauliova holds the position of a Post-doctoral fellow at the Universit茅 Paris Panth茅on-Sorbonne. She is an art historian, whose work focuses on the intersection of visual culture and discourses on identity and difference in the United States and in Eastern Europe. Tatsiana received her PhD from Yale University in 2014. Before arriving to Paris, she held the position of a Collegiate Assistant Professor and a Harper and Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago.聽
Education/Degrees
PhD in History of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S. (May 2014)
- Dissertation: 鈥淎rcadia Americana: Landscape Representation in the Work of Pavel Tchelitchew, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Arshile Gorky鈥
- Awarded The Frances Blanshard Fellowship Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in the History of Art
- Advisors: David Joselit (Harvard University) and Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University)
MPhil in History of Art, Yale University (2010)
M.A. in History of Art, Yale University (2009)
B.A. in History of Art, summa cum laude, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, U.S. (2006)
B.A. in Cultural Heritage and Tourism, magna cum laude, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania鈥擬insk, Belarus (2005)
Publications
- Zhurauliova Tatsiana &聽Anastasia Krutikova, eds (forthcoming 2025). Global TV Series and the Political Imagination, 聽聽University of Exeter Press.
- Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2024). 芦聽Sergey Shabohin. L鈥檌mpulsion archivistique sous le r茅gime autoritaire b茅larusse / Sergey Shabohin. The archival impulse under the authoritarian regime in Belarus聽禄, Histoire de l鈥橝rt, no. 94聽: Art et autoritarismes, pp. 207-218.
- Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2024). Review of聽Splendeurs des oasis d鈥橭uzb茅kistan/The Splendours of Uzbekistan鈥檚 Oases by Yannick Lintz and Rocco Rante (eds.) and聽Sur les routes de Samarcande. Merveilles de soie et d鈥檕r/On the Roads to Samarkand: Wonders of Silk and Gold,听The Art Bulletin 106, no. 1,听pp. 126-130,听DOI:聽.
- Zhurauliova Tatsiana and Anastasia Krutikova (2023). 芦聽R茅imaginer la f茅minit茅. La repr茅sentation des femmes dans les s茅ries russes contemporaines / Reimagining femininity. The representation of women in contemporary Russian series聽禄,听Cahiers du Genre, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 59-88, DOI聽: .
- Zhurauliova Tatsiana and H茅l猫ne Valance (2022). Introduction to 鈥溓炎邮悠 Time: Temporality in American Art and Visual Culture,鈥 In the Round, Panorama 8, no. 2, DOI: .
- Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2020). 鈥淐artography as Collage/Collage as Cartography: The Spatial Turn in Mid-Twentieth-Century Abstraction,鈥 American Art 34, no. 3, pp. 72鈥91, DOI: .
- Zhurauliova Tatsiana (2019). 鈥淭he Nonidentity Problem in Contemporary Belarusian Art,鈥 in New Narratives of Russian and East European Art: Between Traditions and Revolutions, eds Galina Mardilovich and Maria Taroutina, Routledge, pp. 180-192, DOI: .
Conferences & Lectures
- 鈥淎esthetics of Secrecy: Film and TV Series鈥, round-table discussion, closing conference of ERC DEMOSERIES, Institut d鈥櫭塼udes Avanc茅es de Paris, March 6-7, 2025.
- 鈥淪afety in Art: Collaborative Practices and Aesthetics of Care in Eastern European Art in the Face of War鈥, symposium Care Aesthetics, Democracy and Digital Arts, Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne, February 8, 2025.
- 鈥淭ender Mapping: (TV) Fiction, Cartography, and Emotional Attachment,鈥 presentation for the workshop Closing up on Distance, Universit脿 degli Studi di Milano, Gargnano, Italy, June 23-26, 2024.
- 鈥淭he Ordinary Aesthetics of Space: Contesting, Disrupting, Repairing鈥, conference Everyday Aesthetics and Collective Gestures, Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne, January 25-27, 2024.
- 鈥淚maginary Landscapes: How Popular Culture Shapes our Spatial Imagination鈥, conference Education Out of School, Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne, December 18-19, 2023.
- 鈥淕ender and Populism: Female Representation in Contemporary Russian TV Series鈥 (with Anastasia Krutikova), conference (D茅-) Performer le genre dans les m茅dias populaires, Universit茅 Paris 1 and Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle, May 30-31, 2023.
- 鈥Peremen! Visual Culture of Resistance in Contemporary Belarus鈥, invited speaker, seminar series Communaut茅s imagin茅es et mise en image des communaut茅s聽: cultures visuelles et mat茅rielles des nationalismes (laboratoires ICT, Universit茅 de Paris, et CRIT, Universit茅 de Franche-Comt茅), Universit茅 de Bourgogne Franche-Comt茅, Besan莽on, October 7, 2021.
- 鈥溞樞逞邪 胁 袩褉褟褌泻懈: 袩邪胁械谢 效械谢懈褖械胁 懈 T褉邪薪褋薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢褜薪褘泄 袦芯写械褉薪懈蟹屑 (The Game of Hide and Seek: Pavel Tchelitchew and Transnational Modernism)鈥, invited speaker, Gallery of Underground Anti-culture, Minsk, Belarus, January 27 2021 (on-line).
- 鈥淐rossing Borders: American Art History as an International Practice鈥, A Half Century of Fellowship: Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S., October 9, 2020.
Research Areas
Contemporary art and visual culture; intersections of political discourse and representation in art and media; national identities and interculturality; migration, exile, and cultural diaspora; gender and queer studies.