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Anastasiya Fiadotava

Anastasiya Fiadotava

Anastasiya Fiadotava is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of English Studies. She is working on the research project “Humour and Conflict in the Public Sphere: An interdisciplinary analysis of humour controversies and contested freedoms in contemporary Europe”, and taking part in the development of the project website: https://humorinpublic.eu/. She received her BA (in 2014) and MA (in 2015) in History from the Belarusian State University, a BA in Fine Arts from the European Humanities University in Vilnius (in 2014), and a PhD in Folkloristics from the University of Tartu (2020). The topic of her doctoral thesis was “Family Humour in Contemporary Belarus: Forms, Practices and Vernacular Reflections”. Since 2019 she has been working at the Department of Folkloristics of the Estonian Literary Museum as a researcher. She is a member of the International Society for Humour Studies (ISHS) and the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF). She has been involved in organizing a number of academic conferences in the fields of folklore, humour studies and cultural studies, including the Across Borders 2017 conference in Tartu, ISHS 2018 conference in Tallinn and “Balkan and Baltic States in United Europe: History, Religion, and Culture V” conference in Tartu in 2022. In 2022 she was a research group member of the project “Study of Art in Covid-19 Humour” (funded by the Jagiellonian University). Her fields of interest include humour studies, family lore and digital culture. She has conducted several comparative research studies on jokes, memes and other forms of contemporary humour,

ORCID: 0000-0001-6985-1880

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