Klavdia Smola is Visiting Professor in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Greifswald. Her scholarly interests include Eastern-European-Jewish culture, Russian and Polish literatures of the 19th-21st centuries, postcolonial literatures in Eastern Europe, and late-Soviet underground culture.Dirk Uffelmann is Professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Passau. His research interests are Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Central-Asian literatures, philosophy, religion, migration, masculinity, and Internet studies.

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• Postcolonial literatures after communism – Postcoloniality in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland after 1990 – Russian language poetry of Ukraine – Multinational Soviet literature – Siberian and Caucasian ethnic literature – Self-Orientalization – Self-colonization – Postcolonial journeys – Translingual (migration) literature