Décembre 2024 Aleksandar Bošković is Lecturer in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in Slavic Studies from the University of Michigan (2013) and M.A. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Belgrade (2007). Before coming to the States, he was a research fellow at the Institute of Literature and Art in Belgrade (2003-2008), where he worked on the project of Serbian literature of the XX century. He is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including Collegium...

Avril 2025 Carole Bourne-Taylor is an Associate Professor in French at Brasenose College (University of Oxford). Her research interests include: (Post-)modernism and phenomenology; reception studies; comparative studies; modern & contemporary French poetry; literature & ethics; literature and music; life writing. Formée au Centre de Recherches sur l’Imaginaire (UGA) et titulaire d’un doctorat de l’UGA, publié sous le titre L’univers imaginaire de Virginia Woolf (avec une postface de Gilbert Durand), Carole Bourne-Taylor a été allocataire de recherche et monitrice d’enseignement supérieur à l’UGA et ATER à Montpellier avant de partir pour...

Octobre 2024 Prof. Dr. Silvia Burini is Professoressa Ordinaria (full ordinary professor) of History of Russian Art, History of Contemporary Art, and Contemporary Art Curatorship at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where for over ten years she has directed the Center for Studies in Russian Art (CSAR). Since 2011 she has been a member of the scientific committee of Cyberfest – the International Cyber Art Festival and since 2019 she has been part of the artistic committee of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She is a member of...

Février 2025 Marek Nekula is a professor of Czech and West Slavic Studies at the University of Regensburg. He focuses on language contact and multilingualism (including multilingualism in literature), sociolinguistics and language planning as well as nationalism and memory studies. From 1983 to 1988, Nekula studied Czech and German Philology in Brno and Jena. From 1988 to 1989, he was a fellow, and from 1992 to 1994, a senior researcher at the Czechoslovak (later Czech) Academy of Sciences in Prague. In 1991, he began his doctoral studies at Free University...

Février 2025 Originally from Derry, Ireland, Deaglán Ó Donghaile is Reader in Late Victorian Literature and Culture at Liverpool John Moores University. His research interest is in the intersection between literature, politics, and culture. He is the author of the monographs Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siècle (2020) and Blasted Literature: Victorian Political Fiction and the Shock of Modernism (2011), both published by Edinburgh University Press. From 2021-22 he was a British Academy Research Fellow. He is currently writing a book on Wilde’s visit to...

Octobre 2024 Juliet Simpson is Full Professor of Art History, Chair Arts and Cultural Memory and Research Director of the Centre for Arts, Memory, and Communities at Coventry University. Her main research interests include art and its publics; uncanny modernities; art and constructs of ‘nation’ and transnational ‘other’; re-imagining the medieval in modern and contemporary art, haunted urbanisms, art and the emotions, and capitals of cultures, in which she is a recognized leading international specialist. Key publications include, books with Carol Adlam, Critical Exchange: Art Criticism in Russia and Western...

September 2023 Tomáš Glanc, born 1969 in Prague, is a professor at Zurich University, Switzerland. Topics of his research include modern slavic literature, Easter European and especially Russian culture, samizdat and unofficial media, performance in Eastern Europe, Russian and Czech modernism, Slavic ideology, and contemporary Russian art and literature. He has written or prepared for publication several books and a large number of articles and journalistic contributions on this topic, and has also worked on a number of radio and television programmes, podcasts, etc. He has organized numerous conferences and...

September 2023 Head of the Institute of the Czech and Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Head of the international PhD double degree program with Sapinenza Roma since 2018. Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in the years 2018-2019. Wide interdisciplinary range of research, teaching and publishing activities covering gender studies, comparative and Slavic literature especially focusing on modernism and avant-garde. She is the author of pioneering work on female art and literary critics in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th century, which paved...

November 2023 Ben Hutchinson has been Professor of European Literature at the University of Kent since 2012. His research ranges widely across European - and especially, German - literature; publications include the monographs Rilke’s Poetics of Becoming (Legenda, 2006), W.G. Sebald. Die dialektische Imagination (De Gruyter, 2009), Modernism and Style (Palgrave, 2011), Lateness and Modern European Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2018), and most recently The Midlife Mind (Reaktion/Chicago, 2020). He is currently finishing a collection of essays, On Purpose, due...

November 2023 Evgeny Pavlov is Associate Professor of Russian and History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand where he also serves as Head of Department of Global, Cultural and Language Studies He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. He is the author of Shok pamiati: avtobiograficheskaia poetika Val’tera Ben’amina i Osipa Mandel’shtama (The Shock of Memory: Autobiographical Poetics of Walter Benjamin and Osip Mandelstam, Moscow: NLO, 2005) and editor of a number of volumes on Russian and comparative literature. Evgeny Pavlov’s principal area of research is...

Avril 2024 In 2007 I started working at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences as a member of the Department for Research into 20th-century and Contemporary Literature. I collaborated in developing a four-volume History of Czech Literature 1945–1989. In 2010 I became a member of the Literary Lexicography Department, where I created dictionary entries for the Dictionary of Czech Literature http://slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/. I was a visiting scholar at Humboldt Univerzität zu Berlin, University of Glasgow and SUNY at New Paltz. In 2013 I received a Czech...