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Riccardo Nicolosi has been Professor of Slavic Literatures at LMU Munich since 2014. Born in Rome, he graduated with honors from Sapienza University of Rome and holds a PhD in Slavic Literatures from the University of Hamburg and a Habilitation from the University of Konstanz. Before joining LMU Munich, he held academic positions at the Universities of Konstanz (Assistant Professor), Bonn (Senior Lecturer), and Bochum (Associate Professor). He has been a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, the University of Zagreb, and several Russian institutions. He has also held research fellowships at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg Konstanz and the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald.
His research focuses on the literatures and cultures of Russia and the Soviet Union, as well as Southeastern Europe (Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia), from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. His recent publications explore the political rhetoric of Putinism and the rhetorical and narrative intersections between literature and science. His other areas of research include the semiotics of urban space (St. Petersburg/Leningrad and Sarajevo), the construction of national identities (Bosnia and Turkmenistan), and early Soviet adventure literature. He is currently working on a book entitled Modeling Counterfactual History in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia and a research project on political rhetoric from perestroika to the early post-Soviet period.