Leah Preisinger holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Scandinavian Studies from the University of Greifswald. She is mainly interested in narrative multilingualism, the negotiation of socio-political issues in contemporary literature, postcolonial theory and politics of representation. She joined the IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” as a research student from 2023 to 2024, where her main tasks included the secondary coding of Nina Pilz’s PhD project inquiring the pandemic’s impact on public narration from a literary studies perspective.