Assel Uvaliyeva

Assel’s research  examines the representation of the steppe in late Soviet Russian and Kazakh literature and  cinema, exploring the intersection of cultural heritage preservation and literary myth-making  during the 1970s-1980s. She is also currently developing a project on the lost voices of the Tatar  avant-garde, investigating 1920s Tatar periodicals and visual culture, supported by the 2025  Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship from the Modern Language Association. Assel has  published film reviews in KinoKultura and presented at conferences on topics ranging from  nuclear trauma in Soviet literature to ecological consciousness in Central Asian narratives.

• M2 Traduction littéraire, Aix-Marseille Université, 2020
• MA Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2019
• BA World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Nazarbayev University, 2018