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 Annelie Ramsbrock

IRTG Vice Speaker, 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 Eckhard Schumacher

IRTG speaker, Supervisory Board member

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

Oksana Alekseev

PhD Researcher

Political sociology, identity narratives, Russian minority, political attitudes

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

Benjamin August Barkved

PhD Researcher

Literary geography, Norwegian literary history and historiography, nationalism and senses of the nation, maritime/oceanic literary studies, Digital Humanities

John David Crosby

PhD Researcher

Nynorsk literature, Literary History, Critical Theory, Romanticism, Modern Scandinavian Literature

Johanna Daether

research student

Modern German Literature, Gender Studies, Neurodiversity Studies

Sidsel Boysen Dall

PhD Researcher

Schema theory, narratology, health humanities

Assoc-Prof. Dr Karolina Drozdowska

Designated Supervisory Board member

Norwegian literature, literary geographies

Prof. Dr Roman Dubasevych

Supervisory Board member

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

Josephine Eckert

PhD Researcher

Public History, history of the 20th century, GDR history, memory studies, conflicting memory

Prof. Dr Piret Ehin

Designated Supervisory Board member

Comparative politics, European Union

Lea Garcia

PhD Researcher

Memory studies, museum studies, postcolonial studies, cultural identity, cultural heritage

Prof. Dr Anne Gjelsvik

Supervisory Board member

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

Laura Golz

Research student

Cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, British politics, cultural studies and intercultural aspects in foreign language teaching

Andreas Eliassen Grini

PhD Researcher

World War II, Northern Scandinavia, Sámi, Wehrmacht, ideology

Prof. Dr Marina Grishakova

Supervisory Board member

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

Ingeborg Rebecca Mjelde Helleberg, PhD

PhD Researcher

Henriette Hellinger

PhD Researcher

Medieval Nordic history, gender and sexuality history, church history, Canon Law and clerical life

Hanna Horn

PhD Researcher

Slavic literature studies, Digital Humanities, Auto/biography online, Digital dictatorship(s)

Dr. des. Natalia Iost

PhD researcher

International Relations, conflict studies

Prof. Dr Sünne Juterczenka

Designated Supervisory Board member

Early modern history

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

Dr. des. Paul Kirschstein

PhD researcher

Histories and literatures of the Nordic countries, environmental history

Prof. Dr Ingvild Hagen Kjørholt

Designated Supervisory Board member

Literary representations, memory studies, museum studies

Prof. Dr Ene Kõresaar

Supervisory Board member

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

Prof. Dr Corinna Kröber

Supervisory Board member

Comparative politics, democratic governance

Kira Renée Kurz

Postdoctoral Researcher

(Youth) Political Representation, Parties & Elections, Political Demography, Comparative Politics

Hella Liira

PhD researcher

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

Hanna Malene Lindberg

PhD Researcher

Literary geography, cultural memory studies, digital humanities

Prof. Dr Cornelia Linde

Supervisory Board Member

Medieval History, history of philology, Italian humanism

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

Claudia Nierste

PhD Researcher

discourse linguistics, discourse morphology, Finnish history of the 20th and 21st century, Finnish-Scandinavian, Finnish-Russian and Finnish-Baltic relations

Martin Nõmm

PhD researcher

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

Dr. des. Victoria Oertel

PhD researcher

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

Artis Ostups, Ph.D.

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

Prof. Dr Clemens Räthel

Supervisory Board member

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

Jule Ryll

research student

Cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, History and narratives of addiction, Art history and didactics

Rebecca Schröder

research student

Political Science, Environmental Politics, Environmental Justice, Social Justice

Dr Benjamin Schweitzer

Postdoctoral Researcher (associated)

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

Tim Senkbeil

PhD Researcher

Narratology, narration and construction of time, post-GDR-literature, contemporary German literature

Adelīna Skerškāne

Research Student

Post-modernistic concepts in literature, Latvian regional languages

Charlotte Steinert

PhD Researcher

Discourse analysis, immigration politics, right-wing politics, dog-whistles, anti-muslim racism

Synnøve Stølen

PhD Researcher

The European Union, crisis management, policy learning, European integration

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