Anja Tippner#
| Membership Number: | 3868 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ISlav/personal/tippner.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011-today Professor Slavic Literature, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
- 2006-2011 Professor Slavic Literature and Culture, Paris Lodron-Universität, Salzburg
- 2002 Habilitation Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
- 2001 Fall/Winter Guest lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen
- 1995-2006 Assistant Professor, Institut für Slavistik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
- 1990-1992 Lecturer, Dept. of Philology, Univerzita Karlova, Prague
Fields of Scholarship
- Concepts of documentation, auto/biography and life-writing
- Literary representations of experiences of catastrophes and post-catastrophes (war, trauma, violence, camp narratives)
- Jewish literatures in Eastern Europe
- Holocaust literatures in Eastern Europe
- Slavic literatures (Russian, Czech, Polish)
- Surrealism and intermediality
- Translations studies
- Socialist children's literature and culture
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Writer in Residence, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University, New York
- 2011 Member of Collegium Carolinum, Munich
- 1992 - 1995, Ph.D. Grant, German Merit Foundation
