The aim of this project is to develop principled analyses of the four syntactic or pragmatic issues listed below in (i-iv), and investigate their relevance for the general question to ...read more
The project aims to study the literary works, published in the Russian emigration between 1917 and 1940, in which the October Revolution and the Civil War take up a central ...read more
Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as ...read more
Miglena Dikova's postdoctoral research project, entitled "The Concept of the Sublime and the Russian Novel", aims to analyse the aesthetics of the Russian 19th century (e.g. Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and Dostoyevsky's ...read more
During the first decades of the 20th century, a renewed sensibility for different religious traditions distinguished German(-language) Expressionism, and especially Expressionist drama. It has long been accepted that Expressionism is ...read more
It is the project's aim to underscore the fundamental and sometimes problematic role of news discourse in political conflicts, where it shapes perceptions, creates identities and influences attitudes. In particular, ...read more
On the crossroads between philosophy of history and theatre studies, I look at ways in which performances reflect on and experiment with historicist notions of time and history. The starting ...read more
This project aims to analyze representations of individual and collective trauma in comics through a comparative, cross-cultural study. Although Art Spiegelman's Maus has greatly contributed towards the development of trauma ...read more