Katerina Pavlidi is a postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin. She received her PhD from the Slavonic Studies section at the University of Cambridge in 2023, where she wrote a dissertation on the relationship between language and the body in the works of the Russian author Vladimir Sorokin. She is interested in the religious turn in the late Soviet underground, the historical and cultural genealogies of postmodernism and the intersections between philosophies of time and artistic expression.