Magdalena Marszalek

Magdalena Marszalek is a Professor of Slavic literary and cultural studies (with a focus on Polish studies) at the Slavic Department of the University of Potsdam. She is a member of the Department of Jewish Studies (since 2012). Her research fields are: Polish literature and culture, Jewish culture in Poland, memory studies (practices of remembrance in East-Central Europe), intermediality (literature, visual and performative arts). She has published most recently the following books: Selected Works of Maria Janion in German translation (“Polen und ihre Vampire. Studien zur Kritik kultureller Phantasmen”), Berlin: Suhrkamp 2015; Nach dem Vergessen. Rekurse auf den Holocaust in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1989. Berlin: Kadmos 2010 [ed. together with Alina Molisak]; Geopoetiken. Geographische Entwürfe in den mittel- und osteuropäischen Literaturen. Berlin: Kadmos 2010 [ed. Together with Sylvia Sasse].