Get it Published - How to Turn your Thesis into a Book
Tatiana Klepikova, Katharina 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 leads a research group on queer literatures and cultures under socialism at the University of Regensburg (Freigeist Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation). She received her PhD in Slavic Literary Studies at the University of Passau in 2019, followed by a postdoctoral tenure at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto (until 2021). She is the author of Homophobia: Soviet and Post-Soviet (an Element forthcoming with Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of several interdisciplinary volumes, including Privates Ezählen: Formen und Funktionen von Privatheit in der Literatur des 18. bis 21. Jahrhunderts (Peter Lang 2018, mit Steffen Burk und Miriam Piegsa), Outside the “Comfort Zone”: Private and Public Spheres in Late Socialist Europe (De Gruyter 2020, with Lukas Raabe), and Queer Cold Wars: Deconstructing Bipolar Visions of Gender and Sexuality (with Maryna Shevtsova and Emil Edenborg; forthcoming with Palgrave). Tatiana’s work focuses on gender, sexuality, and queerness in Eastern Europe and South Caucasus, with the special attention to performance, memory, identity politics, literature and art, and digital cultures
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:
She owns a PdD in East European History and a habilitation from the University of Tübingen. Her main monographs focus on the history of the Polish women’s movement from 1863 till 1918 and on Czechoslovak war victims after the First and the Second World Wars. Since 2009 she holds the position of an academic researcher at the chair for Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg. Research interests: 19th and 20th century history of East Central Europe, gender history, war experiences, social policy, culture of late socialist societies, the ILO and East Central Europe.
Venue:
GS OSESUR, Landshuter Straße 4, 93047 Regensburg, room 017 (ground floor)