Get it Published - How to Turn your Thesis into a Book
Tatiana Klepikova, Katja Kucher, Olha Martyniuk, Natali Stegmann (Regensburg)
- Beginning:
- Tuesday, 02 December 2025 14:00
- End:
- 17:00
Abstract:
Are you wondering how to transform your doctoral thesis into a published book? Join us for Get it Published, a practical session where experienced scholars and recent alumni share their insights, tips, and lessons learned on navigating the path from dissertation to publication or publication of a monograph in general. Whether you're just finishing your thesis or already revising, this event will offer valuable perspectives and real-world advice to support your publishing journey.
Tatiana Klepikova:
She is a Freigeist Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Regensburg, where she leads the research group on queer literary cultures under socialism. She is editor and translator of Contemporary Queer Plays by Russian Playwrights (Bloomsbury, 2021) and co-editor of Outside the “Comfort Zone”: Private and Public Spheres in Late Socialist Europe (De Gruyter, 2020, with Lukas Raabe). Her work focuses on queer drama and performance and cultures of non-normative genders and sexualities in Eastern Europe.
Katja Kucher:
She studied History and Slavic Language and Literature in Constance and Moscow. In 2004, she received her PhD from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder with a thesis on Moscow's Gorky Park. She habilitated at the University of Tübingen in 2020 with a study on the history of childhood in nineteenth-century Russia. From 2004 to 2019, Kucher worked as a research associate and assistant professor at the Institute for Eastern European History and Area Studies at the University of Tübingen. From 2009 to 2019, she was deputy director of the Institute. In 2011–2015, she co-directed, with Georg Schild, subproject D04 (The USA and the Soviet Union: Transformations within a Global Competition over Political Order, 1975–1989) of Collaborative Research Centre 923 “Threatened Order – Societies under Stress” at the University of Tübingen. She has been a research associate at the IOS and the editor responsible for Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas since March 2020. In February 2025, she was appointed as an adjunct professor at the University of Regensburg.
Olha Martyniuk:
She received her doctorate in history from the University of Regensburg in 2024. She is the coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies ‘Denkraum Ukraine’. From 2020 to 2024, she was an associate member of the Graduate School for Eastern and South-Eastern European Studies at the University of Regensburg and a DAAD scholarship holder at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. Prior to that, she completed voluntary service at the Buchenwald Memorial and worked for several Ukrainian NGOs in Kyiv. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in political science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Her research focuses on the culture of remembrance and the handling of Soviet and cultural heritage in Eastern Europe, particularly in relation to the history of the Second World War.
Natali Stegmann:
Born 1967 in Aschaffenburg (Bavaria). 1994 Magister´s degree at the University of Frankfurt (Main). 1999 Doctorate Degree at the University of Tübingen. 2007 Habilitation at the University of Tübingen for Eastern European History, Department of Philosophy and History. 2010 (Re-)habilitation for Eastern European History at the University of Regensburg.
Venue:
GS OSESUR, Landshuter Straße 4, 93047 Regensburg, room 017 (ground floor)