Prof. Dr. Dirk Uffelmann

Dirk Uffelmann is professor of East and West Slavic Literatures at Justus Liebig University Giessen and coeditor of Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie. He studied Russian, Polish, Czech, and German literatures at the Universities of Tubingen, Vienna, Warsaw, and Konstanz. He obtained his PhD from the University of Konstanz and defended his second thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Bremen before teaching as Lecturer in Russian at the University of Edinburgh. From 2006 to 2019, he taught as professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Passau, where he also served as Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs from 2011 to 2014.

His research interests are Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian literature, religion, migration, postcolonial, gender, and internet studies. He has authored 4 monographs (The Russian Culturosophy, 1999, in German, and The Humiliated Christ—Metaphors and Metonymies in Russian Culture and Literature, 2010 and 2020, in German and Russian, Vladimir Sorokin’s Discourses, in English, German, and Russian, 2020–2022, and Polish Postcolonial Literature, in Polish, 2020) and co-edited 14 volumes, including Tam, vnutri. Praktiki vnutrennei kolonizatsii v kul’turnoi istorii Rossii [There within: Practices of Internal Colonization in Russia’s Cultural History] (2012), and Postcolonial Slavic Literatures After Communism (2016).

He is currently working on an Introduction to Postcolonial Studies, the first one to include postcolonial perspectives on Eastern Europe and Eurasia (co-author: Paweł Zajas).

Full English CV and publication list: www.uni-giessen.de/slavic/uffelmann