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Prof. Dr. Dirk Uffelmann

Professor of East and West Slavic Literatures
Head of Department

Office 519
Phone: +49 641 99-31186
Fax: +49 641 99-31169
Email

Contact hour

  • During the semester

Tuesday 3-4 pm
Prior appointment: Magdalena Szych (office 518, phone +49 641 99-31187, Email)

  • During the break

Appointment via email


Teaching and research assistants

Dr. Elena Hamidy

Yauheniya Lekarevich, M.A.

Research focus

  • Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovak, and Ukrainian literature and media
  • Postcolonial research in Eastern Europe
  • Internet and digital humanities
  • Gender, especially masculinities
  • Migration

Education and professional appointments

  • 1990–1997 Studies of Russian, Polish, Czech and German literature at the Universities of Tubingen, Vienna, Warsaw, and Konstanz
  • 1997–2005 Research Assistant at the Universities of Erfurt and Bremen
  • 1999 PhD, University of Konstanz
  • 2005 Postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) at the University of Bremen
  • 2006 Lecturer in Russian, University of Edinburgh
  • 2006–2019 Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures and Cultures, University of Passau
  • 2019– Professor of East and West Slavic Literatures, Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • Visiting professorships and fellowships and at the Universities of Bergen, Western Michigan, Cambridge, Puget Sound, Munich, Trier, and at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin
  • 2020–2022 President of the German Association of Slavists (Verband der deutschen Slavistik)
  • 10/2021–09/2023 and 10/2025- Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, JLU Giessen
  • 2025– Ordinary Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
  • English CV

Publications

  • Monographs: Die russische Kulturosophie [The Russian Culturosophy] (1999), Der erniedrigte Christus—Metaphern und Metonymien in der russischen Kultur und Literatur [The Humiliated Christ—Metaphors and Metonymies in Russian Culture and Literature] (2010; Russian translation: Samonunichizhenie Khrista. Meatfory i metonimii v russkoi kul'ture i literature. Vol. 1. Ritorika khristologii, 2022; Vol. 2. Russkie reprezentatsii i praktiki, 2023; Vol. 3. Literaturnye transformatsii, 2024), Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses (2020; German translation: Vladimir Sorokins Diskurse, 2021; Russian translation: Diskursy Vladimira Sorokina, 2022), and Polska literatura postkolonialna [Polish Postcolonial Literature] (2020, 2nd ed. 2024); Postcolonial Studies. Einführung in globaler Perspektive [Postcolonial Studies: A Global Perspective] (with Paweł Zajas, 2026); Dichten auf Distanz. Boris Chersonskij vom ukrainischen Samizdat bis zur russophonen Emigration [Writing out of Range: Boris Khersonskii's Poetry from Ukrainian Samizdat to Russophone Emigration] (2027, forthcoming)
  • Edited volumes: Orte des Denkens. Neue Russische Philosophie [Places of Thinking: New Russian Philosophy] (1995), Kultur als Übersetzung [Culture as Translation] (1999), Nemetskoe filosofskoe literaturovedenie nashikh dnei [Contemporary German Philosophical Literary Criticism] (2001), Uskol’zaiushchii kontekst. Russkaia filosofiia v XX veke [Evading Context: Russian Philosophy under Post-Soviet Conditions] (2002), Religion und Rhetorik [Religion and Rhetoric] (2007), Contemporary Polish Migrant Culture and Literature in Germany, Ireland, and the UK (2011), Tam, vnutri. Praktiki vnutrennei kolonizatsii v kul’turnoi istorii Rossii [There within: Practices of Internal Colonization in Russia’s Cultural History] (2012), Vladimir Sorokin’s Languages (2013), Postcolonial Slavic Literatures After Communism (2016) und Umsiedlung, Vertreibung, Wiedergewinnung? [Relocation, Expulsion, Recovery?] (2017)
  • Book series: Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe; Polonistik im Kontext
  • Complete English Publication List

 

Conferences

Guest Lectures

  • Prof. Paweł Zajas (Poznań): "Sozialistische Großfamilie. Transnationale literarische Verflechtungen im europäischen 'Ostblock'," Juli 16, 2024
  • Saša Stanišić: Reading at JLU Giessen, in cooperation with Literarisches Zentrum Gießen and Gießkannenmuseum, May 7, 2025
  • Prof. Riccardo Nicolosi (Munich): "Die Monstren von Peter dem Großen. Die St. Petersburger Kunstkammer und die barocke Ordnung der (russischen) Welt," November 4, 2025
  • Dr. Ilya Kukulin (Stanford, CA): "The Russian Society as an Extreme Manifestation of the Current Global Crisis," December 5, 2025
  • Prof. Dirk Uffelmann (Giessen), Prof. Paweł Zajas (Poznań): Book Talk "Postcolonial Studies: A Global Perspective", GCSC, May 26, 2026
  • Prof. Alexander Etkind (CEU Vienna): "Russia against Modernity: Four Years Later," GCSC, January 19, 2027, 6-8 pm
  • Prof. Peter Oliver Loew (DPI Darmstadt): <tba>, May 11, 2027, 6-8 pm

Teaching

  • Winter semester 2026/2027

    S: Postkoloniale Osteuropaforschung
    S: Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe
    S: Boris Chersonskij – vom ukrainischen Samizdat bis zur fünften russophonen Emigration
    S: Marx im östlichen Europa
    S: Zbigniew Herbert und die Volksrepublik Polen

  • Summer semester 2027
    Ü: Einführung in die slavische Literaturwissenschaft

    V: Russische Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte 1917–2022
    V: Polnische Teilungszeit
    S: The Unstageable Dramas of Polish Romanticism Mi 16–18

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