Biography
Georgian, English, Russian, Japanese
Coming from Georgia, Megi received her B.A. in Social Sciences at Free University of Tbilisi, with minor in Japanese Language. Her B.A. thesis concerned Butlerian forms of gender performativity and sexuality in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Her upcoming research will focus on the forms of nationality, orientalism, gender, sexuality and materiality in the post-Soviet literature and the role they played in the formation of a new political subjecthood. Her general research interests include Feminist and Queer Studies, Nationalism, Materiality studies, and Cognitive Sciences.