Rowan Dowling

2026. ‘Searching for Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy in Russian: FantLab.ru and the Non-traditional Orientation/Self-Identification Tag’. Queer Bookshelves & LGBTQI+ Literatures Conference. Université Libre de Bruxelles.

2026. ‘Blurred Boundaries: The Lines between Fiction, Reality, and Bisexual/Lesbian Identity in Sveta Lukyanova’s I Am Not Doing Anything Wrong (2023)’. The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference. University of Birmingham.

2024. ‘Toward a Bisexual Poetics: Articulating a Bisexual Subjectivity in Russian Poetry’. The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 54th Annual Convention. Boston, Massachusetts.

2024. ‘Bisexuality, the Nation, and the “Crisis of Masculinity” in Russian Audio-Visual Culture’. International Bisexuality+ Research Conference. Virtual.

2024. ‘Dark Blue, Half-Blue, Bi: Tracing Bisexual Identification in Russia’. 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference. University of Brighton.

2024. ‘Researching LGBTQ+ Russia Now’. Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services Annual Conference. University of Oxford.

2023. ‘Bisexual Masculinities: The Gendered Construction of Male Bisexuality in Russia’s Gay Press of the 1990s and Early 2000s’. Workshop on ‘Masculinity and Postsocialism’. University of Southampton.

2023. ‘Embodying the Border: Bisexuality and Nationality in Faina Grimberg’s Novella Mavka (2001)’. Slavonic Research Seminar Series. University of Oxford.

2023. ‘Bisexual Belonging Online: A Case Study of “Bi Life Stories” on Gay.ru’. The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference. University of Glasgow.

2023. ‘A Crisis of Identity: The Bisexual Russian-Ukrainian-Romani Throuple in Faina Grimberg’s Novella Mavka (2001)’. The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Annual Conference. University of Glasgow.

2022. ‘Bisexuality in Russian Lesbian and Gay Samizdat of the 1990s and Early 2000s’. The White Rose Project ‘Rethinking Resistance’ Conference. University of Oxford.

2022. ‘Linguistic and Stylistic Innovation in Contemporary Russian Transgender Autobiography’. The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 54th Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois.

2022. ‘Theorising Bisexuality in the 1990s Gay and Lesbian Press’. Workshop on ‘Queer(ing) Russia: Academia and Activism in Dialogue’. University of Oxford.

2022. ‘Russian Research Reinvented: Scholarship and Creative Engagement’. Slavonic Research Seminar Series. University of Oxford.