Prof. Dr. Sabine Koller
Professor of Slavic-Jewish Studies
Contact
Universität Regensburg
Institute for Slavic Studies
Universitätsstraße 31
93053 Regensburg
Germany
+49 (0)941 / 943-1665 +49 (0) 941 / 943 - 1988 sabine.koller@ur.de Webprofile
Main Research Areas
- Eastern Jewish cultural renaissance (literature and painting)
- Slavic-Jewish and Yiddish literatures (19th and 20th century)
- Intertextuality - intermediality - interculturality
- Processes of cultural translation, cultural transfer and extraterritoriality
- The city as a text (Saint-Petersburg and Moscow)
- Violence in text and image
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Amberg, Oberpfalz. Studied Slavic and Romance Studies in Regensburg, Grenoble and Saint Petersburg. PhD in 2002, Habilitation in 2011. 2006-2012 Dilthey Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation. From 2007 to 2012 member of the “Young Academy” at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Culture Award of East Bavaria (Kulturpreis Ostbayern) for outstanding scientific achievements and Professor-Joseph-Engert-Prize of the city of Regensburg. Since 2013 Professor of Slavic-Jewish Studies at the Institute of Slavic Studies at Universität Regensburg.
Positions, Assignments and Memberships
- Principal investigator of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
- Chairperson of the Academic Advisory Board of the Leibniz-Institut für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur – Simon Dubnow (Leipzig)
- Scientific advisory board of the Center for Jewish Cultural History (Salzburg)
- Dean of Research at the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies (Universität Regensburg)
- Director of the doctoral programme (PUR) of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies and the Faculty of Philosophy, Art, History and Social Sciences (Universität Regensburg)
- Member of the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers
- Member of the German Association of Slavists