CV

Academic Career and Education

• since 11/2024 Co-chair of the international working group “Childhood in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Russia” (ChEEER), which operates under the auspices of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).
  
• since 03/2024 Member of the Young Academy (Junges Kolleg) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  Research project "Aesthetics and Politics of Picturebooks in Contemporary Eastern European Children's Literature".
• 03/2024 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley.
  
• 06/2022 Habilitation at the LMU Munich (Slavic Literatures, General and Comparative Literature). Habilitation thesis: „Prose as a Form of Commitment: a Political Prosaics of Literature"
  
• since 04/2020 Jun.-Professor of Slavic Literature Studies and Media at the LMU Munich
• 02/2018 – 03/2020 Research Associate at the Humboldt University of Berlin (German Studies and Comparative Literature). Coordinator and advisor in the Master program European Literatures.
• 10/2016 – 02/2018 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (Freie Universität Berlin).
• 10/2013 – 07/2016 PhD Student at the Freie Universität Berlin (Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature), holder of a PhD Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
  PhD in General and Comparative Literature, „summa cum laude“. Doctoral thesis: “The Writerʼs Notebook as a Medium of Thinking in Russian and German Literature”.
• 09/2007 – 06/2013 Studies of Russian Philology and Comparative Literature at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (with semesters abroad at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Carleton College, USA).