Stefan Schmidt

After a first master’s degree in 2015 in Russian Cultural Studies from Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), I earned another one in 2016 in Slavic and Romance (French) Studies (also from Ruhr-University Bochum) and a third one in European Cultural Studies from RSUH Moscow.

Since 2016, I have been working on a PhD project about the writing of Polish Siberian exiles around 1900 on the margin of literature and ethnography at Fribourg University (Switzerland). From 2017 – 2020, this project was supported by a PhD scholarship from “Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.”-Foundation. Thesis submission is scheduled for this fall.

Partial results of the project have been published in conference proceedings over the previous two years.

Other publications, as well as my general research interests, include Russian and Polish modernism, intersections between (literary) writing, the history of science and knowledge production as well as transnational perspectives on Eastern Europe and from Eastern Europe to the world (Imperiality, Postcolonialism).