Team

Prof. Dr Anti Selart

IRTG Speaker, Supervisory Board member

Medieval and early modern history of Baltic area, Baltic crusades, interconfessional relations, medieval Livonia

Prof. Dr Ingvild Folkvord

IRTG Speaker, Supervisory Board member

Literature, terrorism and law, Ernst Cassirer’s theory of culture, translation studies, voice phenomena

Prof. Dr Cordelia Heß

IRTG Vice Speaker, Supervisory Board member

Nordic history, antisemitism, saints cults in the Baltic Sea Region, minorities

Prof. Dr Eckhard Schumacher

IRTG speaker, Supervisory Board member

Literary and media studies, contemporary literature, digitization, pop culture

Rauno Alliksaar

PhD researcher

Medieval church history, monasticism, history of communication, non-verbal communication

Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Riho Altnurme

Supervisory Board member

History of theology in Estonia, methodology and historiography of church history, interconfessional relations, secularisation

Prof. Em. Laura Assmuth, Ph.D.

Mercator Fellow

Mobility and migration, borders, translocal familyhood, life course, inequality, Eastern and Northern Europe, ethnographical methodology, research ethics

Prof. Dr Hubertus Buchstein

Supervisory Board member

Democratic theory, history of political ideas, politics of history, right-wing extremism

Prof. Dr Margit Bussmann

Supervisory Board member

Peace and conflict research, foreign policy analysis, security in the Baltic Sea region

Louise Curtis

Research Student

Political and social theory, intellectual history, translation theory

Sidsel Boysen Dall

PhD Researcher

Schema theory, narratology, health humanities

Anna Derksen

Assistant lecturer

Nordic & Scandinavian welfare history, disability history, cultural studies, body politics & eugenics

JProf. Dr Roman Dubasevych

Supervisory Board member

History and culture of Ukraine, psychoanalysis, trauma, Holocaust, film studies, pop culture

Prof. Dr Anne Gjelsvik

Supervisory Board member

Intermediality and adaptation, terror and violence in film, gender representation in film

Prof. Dr Marina Grishakova

Supervisory Board member

Comparative literature, literature and philosophy, narratology, cognitive humanities, intermedial studies

Ingeborg Rebecca Mjelde Helleberg

PhD Researcher

Natalia Iost

PhD researcher

International Relations, conflict studies

Prof. Dr Helge Jordheim

Supervisory Board member

Dr Antje Kempe

Postdoctoral researcher (associated)

Early modern and contemporary art, Eastern and Northern Europe, garden and landscape architecture, art and nature in the discourse of the Anthropocene, memory culture, art historiography

Prof. Dr Stephan Kessler

Supervisory Board member

19th and 20th century Latvian & Lithuanian literature, the idyll in Poland and Lithuania around 1800, narratology, theory of metaphor

Paul Kirschstein

PhD researcher

Histories and literatures of the Nordic countries, environmental history

Prof. Dr Ene Kõresaar

Supervisory Board member

(Auto)biographical research, memory studies, museum studies, post/Socialism studies

Gonzalo Landau Brenes

Research Student (2021-2023)

Late antiquity in Hispania, Visigoth and Spanish history

Hella Liira

PhD researcher

Space, transitory spaces, non-lieux, heterotopias, intertextuality, gender in correlation with identity, sexuality, power and movement

Dr Verena Liu

Postdoctoral researcher (associated)

Music (education), opera, gender studies, historic popular music, canon and repertoire in music, ethnographical methods

Assoc-Prof. Dr Terje Loogus

Supervisory Board member

Translation theory, translation and culture

Rezeda Lyykorpi

PhD researcher

Collective and cultural memory, politics of memory, ethnic identity

Prof. Dr Jochen Müller

Supervisory Board member

Legislatures, political parties, political attitudes and behavior

Prof. Kristoffer Neville, Ph.D.

Mercator Fellow

Early modern culture in Northern Europe, architecture and arts history, topography and historiography, royal courts and court culture

Prof. Dr Mathias Niendorf

Supervisory Board member

History of Lithuania, Polish-German relations, nations and nationalisms

Martin Nõmm

PhD researcher

Baltic exile literature, trauma studies, diaspora studies, comparative literature

Prof. Em. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Michael North

Supervisory Board Member (2021-2023)

Monetary and financial history, history of commerce and culture, Baltic Sea Region

Victoria Oertel

PhD researcher

Philosophy of medicine, history of medical theory, narratological concepts of health & disease

Prof. Dr Andreas Ohme

Supervisory Board member

Russian, Czech and Polish literatures, narratology, genology, methodology, intermediality

Douglas Ong

PhD researcher

Commemoration of traumatic experiences in Central-Eastern Europe

Artis Ostups

PhD researcher

Trauma studies, philosophy of history, narrative theory, Eastern European literature

Prof. Dr Marko Pantermöller

Supervisory Board member

Old Literary Finnish, morphosyntax, language and research history, multilingualism, language attitudes and contact, translation studies

Nina Pilz

PhD researcher

Narratology, discourse analysis, medical humanities, narratives of crisis, literature and space

Leah Preisinger

Research Student

Narratology, multilingualism in literature, cultural and postcolonial studies, equality of representation

Prof. Dr Annelie Ramsbrock

Supervisory Board member

Cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, history of the body, medicine and punishment, history of knowledge, theory of history

Prof. Dr Clemens Räthel

Supervisory Board member

Scandinavian theatre and literature, Jewish-Scandinavian relations, contemporary Scandinavian opera architecture, queer voices in literature, health/disease

Sophie Schulze

Research student (2021-2023)

German literature and epistemology, 20th century literature

Benjamin Schweitzer

PhD researcher

Linguistics, Finnic philology, special languages/terminology, linguistic culture analysis

Adelīna Skerškāne

Research Student

Post-modernistic concepts in literature, Latvian regional languages

Assoc-Prof. Dr Jan Süselbeck

Supervisory Board member

Affect theory, literary antisemitism (18th -21st century), transmission of literature in the media, cultural memory studies, generational theory, the Holocaust and its aftermath, representations of war in literature and film, contemporary literature, German-language Jewish literature