CV

I joined the Slavic Department at LMU Munich as a Research Associate (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”) in 2018, after receiving my PhD in Comparative Literature from Humboldt University Berlin in 2017. I have held various scholarships for research stays at RGGU and HSE Moscow, at NYU, UC Berkeley and at Zurich University, where I am currently a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Slavic Seminar.

My research interests revolve around new anthropologies and materialities in Russian and Czech culture, where I engage in conversations about ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, and sound studies. My dissertation on non-human life in Dmitry Prigov’s novels published in 2018 with De Gruyter is titled Autobiography and Zoegraphy. In my recently completed second book project (“Habilitation”) tentatively titled Deep Time in Literature and Science in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, I investigate fictions of deep pasts and futures informed by geology, paleontology, and thermodynamics.

Together with Clemens Günther, I founded the German Research Association network “Russian Ecospheres. Forms of Ecological Knowledge in Russian Literature, Culture and History” in 2022.

Follow these links for a more detailed CV in German and a list of my publications and upcoming conference papers.