CV
Since April 2018: Manager of CITAS and then from 2022 DIMAS
09.2014-03.2018: Postdoctoral Researcher GCSC, University of Giessen
2008-2013: PhD in Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow
2008, 2012-14: Lecturer, Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
2006-2007: M.Litt. Reading European Cultures (Slavonic Studies), Glasgow
2002-2006: BA Polish and German Studies, University College London, including semesters at Hamburg and Wrocław
Publications
Fiction, Authenticity and Alternative Histories: Time traveling with 1930s punks Hańba!: in Otro maldito homenaje ... Festgabe für Jochen Mecke, Anne-Sophie Donnarieix, Susanne Greilich, Ralf Junkerjürgen, Hubert Pöppel, Dagmar Schmelzer, Eds. (Munic: AVM, 2023) pp. 201-212.
Heritage under Socialism: Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945–1991,
edited by Eszter Gantner, Corinne Geering, and Paul Vickers; New Perspectives on Central and Eastern European Studies, vol. 2. (New York/ Oxford: Berghahn: 2022).
- This edited volume is available now. For orders via the publisher Berghahn, a discount of 50% is available until 30 November 2021 using the code: GANT278. Find more details in the PDF.
Remembering between Travel and Locatedness: New Horizons in Cultural and Media Memory Studies, co-editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, vol. 11, 2019: Supplement 1
(2019) Introduction: Travel, locatedness, and new horizons in Memory Studies, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 11:sup1, DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1690840
‘Moving Homes and Homelands on Television: (West) Germany’s Heimat and Poland’s Dom’, Oxford German Studies, Band 47, 1, 2018, pp. 103-124. doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2018.1409515
‚Vergiss das populäre Gedächtnis nicht. Erinnerungsforschung, Autobiographie und Kulturgeschichte’: in Neue Perspektiven der Kulturgeschichte. Gegenstände, Konzepte, Quellen, Benjamin Brendel, Corinne Geering und Sebastian Zylinski, Hrsg. (Trier: VWT, 2018), pp. 167-184.
Constructing a Memory of Polish/Jewish Community in Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class, in: Polish Literature in Transformation, edited by Ursula Phillips with Knut Andreas Grimstad and Kris Van Heuckelom (Berlin und Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2013), pp. 203-223.
“Czuję się niczym – czy to w Polsce kapitalistycznej, czy Ludowej”: Images of the Polish Father from women’s communist-era memoirs, [“I feel worthless whether Poland is capitalist or a People’s Republic”], in Postawy rodzicielskie współczensnych ojców/ Paternal Attitudes of Modern Fathers, Maria Kujawska and Lidia Huber, Hrsg. (Poznan: WSNHiD, 2010), pp. 48-70.
Staging Memories of Forced Migration in Jan Klata’s Transfer!, Polish Theatre Perspectives, 1 (2010), pp. 199-226.
The Staging of Family Memories of Forced Migration in Jan Klata’s Transfer!, in Rodzina, tożsamość, pamięć/ Family, Identity, Memory, Maria Kujawska, Izabela Skórzyńska and Grażyna Teusz, Hrsg. (Poznan: WSNHiD, 2009), pp. 171-196.
Research Interests
- Memory cultures in Poland, Germany and Eastern Europe
- Representations of history in film and television
- Transnational conceptions of "home" or "Heimat"
- Autobiography, popular memory and censorship
- Theories and methods of area studies
Reviews and Reports
Review: Area Studies at the Crossroads. Knowledge Production after the Mobility Turn, Mielke and Hornidge, eds. (2017), for Connections. PDF available here.
Conference Report: Area Studies in Flux, 27-29 September 2018, UCL for H-Soz-Kult. PDF available here.
Review: Das global vernetzte Dorf by Matthias Kaltenbrunner (2017) for H-Soz-Kult. PDF available here.
“A New Englightenment”, or Cosmopolitan memory yet again. Rezension von Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again, Alejandro Baer and Natan Sznaider (2017), for Kult Online, vol. 51, 2017.
Review: Memory and Change in Europe: Eastern Perspectives, edited by M. Pakier and J. Wawrzyniak (2016), in Memory Studies, vol. 10, 2 (2017), 232-235.
Review: (A)pollonia: Twenty-First Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage, Krystyna Duniec, Joanna Klass, Joanna Krakowska (Hrsg.) (2015) for Pol-Int, Polish Studies. Interdisciplinary (2016).
Review: Empowering Revolution: America, Poland and the End of the Cold War by Gregory F. Domber (2014) for Pol-Int.org, Polish Studies.Interdisciplinary (2016).
Review: Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957 by Patryk Babiracki (2015), in Journal of European Studies, vol. 46, 1 (2016), 93-95.
Europe's periphery at the centre of attention, or: Contextualizing Ukraine - too much, too fast? Rezension von Klaus Bachmann and Igor Lyubashenko (eds): The Maidan Uprising, Separatism and Foreign Intervention: Ukraine's complex transition (2014), in Kult Online, vol. 42, 2015.
Orientalising Eastern Europe: The "semi-periphery" as object and producer of orientalist discourse. Rezension von Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe by Tomasz Zarycki (2014), in Kult Online, vol. 41, 2015.
Review: Okkupation im Osten: Besatzeralltag in Warschau und Minsk 1939–1944, by Stephan Lehnstaedt (2010), in Central Europe, Vol. 9, 2 (2011), 159-161.
