Prof. Dr. Dirk Uffelmannhttps://www.uni-giessen.de/en/faculties/f05/slavistics/department/professors/slavic-literature/prof-dr-dirk-uffelmannhttps://www.uni-giessen.de/@@site-logo/logo.png
Russian, Polish, Czech, 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 Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, JLU Giessen
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)
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 and journal: Postcolonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe; Polonistik im Kontext; Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie
Provincializing Russian, Justus Liebig University Giessen, January 20/21, 2023 (co-organizer: Tamara Hundorova)
Guest Lectures
Prof. Paweł Zajas (Poznań): "Sozialistische Großfamilie. Transnationale literarische Verflechtungen im europäischen 'Ostblock'", Juli 16, 2024, 6.00 pm