Susanne Frank

Member of the steering committee

Susanne Frank (Humboldt University Berlin) studied in Vienna, Konstanz and Moscow, and graduated from the University of Konstanz: 1988 Master of Arts (Slavic Studies/ History); 1996 PhD (Russian Literature); 2004 Habilitation (Slavic and comparative literatures). Since 2019 she has been chair of East Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the Institute for Slavic Studies. Her current fields of research are: geopoetics and geopolitics, Russian and Russian-language literatures in multilingual contexts, history and current developments of literatures in (post-)imperial contexts (Ukrainian, Georgian, and Azerbaidzhan literature), magical realism as a postcolonial mode of writing; Latin American and (post-)Soviet literatures in comparison, and ecological approaches to cultural semantics.