Sex, Surveillance, and Survival : Essays in Honour of Dan Healey (St Antony's Series)

This edited volume honors the research and teaching of Dan Healey in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES). Rather than draw exclusively on those whom Dan has taught, as would a traditional Festschrift, the volume includes contributions from Dan's former students, as well as his colleagues, who together represent several generations, diverse genders and sexualities, multiple national traditions, and a variety of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The volume seeks to reflect the full range of Dan's research interests, from Soviet and Russian history to the history of sexuality, medicine, and the Gulag. Essays in the volume represent different genres of writing and pay special attention to Dan's influence in crossing, breaching, and even breaking the disciplinary, geopolitical, and generational boundaries that have defined REES since the Cold War. When taken together, the volume's essays demonstrate how Dan's research and teaching have not simply broadened the scope of REES overall, but just as importantly aided in current efforts to decolonize the field.

The volume aims to document the full breadth of Dan's influence, with each contributor explicitly considering the ways in which Dan's work has had an impact on them, be it through the archives they consult or the methods and theories they employ. We have asked that contributors limit their essays to six thousand words, so that the volume may have a total of sixteen essays divided into three sections. After an introductory essay by Dan himself, the first section addresses the different methodologies that Dan's work has inspired and includes an intellectual biography of Dan, while the second section examines how Dan's research has illuminated the significance of everyday experience. The third and final section turns to transnational flows that transform our understanding of local histories and is followed by a conversation between Dan and Elena Gusiatinskaia, founder of Moscow's Lesbian and Gay Archive. While a handful of essays address topics and material from contributors' "desk drawer," the majority of essays represent fresh research undertaken specifically with the volume in mind.

Chapter 1:Introduction: Scholarship in Troubled Times.- Part 1: Methodologies for Reading Eastern Europe Queerly.- Chapter 2: A Duty to Tell Histories: Cruising the Archipelago of Dan Healey s Research.- Chapter 3: The Birth of Queer History in East-Central Europe, or the Missionary Antics of Sister Appassionata della Bawdy House.- Chapter 4: Reading Gay History Queerly: Literary Works as Historical Documents.- Chapter 5: Queering the Russian Archive.- Part 2: Literature and the Queer Voice.- Chapter 6: I loved you like a father : The Sidelong Glance from Russophone Boys Love.- Chapter 7: Queering the Fairytale: Bathhouse Sex and the Little Devil of Money in the Periphery of the Russian Empire.- Chapter 8: Bi Eyes in the Archives: Reading Bisexuality in Gennady Trifonov s Prison Camp Novella Setka (1994).- Chapter 9: Silenced Voices of the Soviet Periphery: Georgian Female Writers and Stalin s Cult of Personality.- Part 3: New Perspectives on and from the Archives.- Chapter 10: The Surveillance of Homosexuals in the Wartime Sudetenland, 1938-1945.- Chapter 11: Soviet medical internationalism in Cuba as a history of emotion, 1960s-1970s.- Chapter 12: Islands of Humanity, or Born of the Devil s Blood? New Debates on Gulag Medicine.- Chapter 13: The Gulag Letters: The Russian History of Gay Love.- Chapter 14: The Securitization of Sexuality in Putin s Russia: A Media Analysis.- Chapter 15: Afterword: My Russias.

Julie A. Cassiday has taught Russian language, literature, and culture, as well as Comparative Literature, at Williams College (Massachusetts, USA) for over thirty years. Her research focuses on performance, in the broadest sense of this word, in Russian and Soviet culture, and she has published articles on topics ranging from early nineteenth-century Russian drama to Stalinist film, the so-called cult of personality surrounding Vladimir Putin, and the Eurovision Song Contest. She has published two monographs, the first titled The Enemy on Trial: Early Soviet Courts on Stage and Screen (Northern Illinois University Press, 2000) and the second, Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023). She also helped to edit the award-winning volume of essays, Russian Performances: Word, Object, Action (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). The latter two reflect her long-term interest in and research on gender and sexuality in post-Soviet popular culture, which has led to her current research on a genre of popular romance called "boys love" in Russophone space.

Alexander Sasha Kondakov is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. His truly international experience includes holding positions at the University of Helsinki (Finland), the European University at St. Petersburg (Russia), the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). Kondakov's work is primarily focused on law and sexuality studies, more specifically on queer sexualities. His latest research on violence against LGBT people in Russia has gotten attention in the international media. It concluded with an open-access book, Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022).