Tomi Haxhi is a sixth-year PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, specializing in Russian literature. His dissertation focuses on Soviet and post-Soviet science fiction and fantasy from the Revolution to the Putin era, looking at discourses of posthumanism as a working through of national trauma and a reckoning with historical breaks. He is a Harriman Meiers Fellow for the 2021-2022 academic year.