Prof. Dr. Susanne Strätling

Head of Department

Address

Garystraße 55
Room 120
D-14195 Berlin

since 2020 Professor of Comparative Literature with a focus on Slavic literatures at the Freie Universität Berlin
2018-2020 Professor of East Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Potsdam
2016-2018 Professor of Comparative Literature at LMU Munich
2014 Post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) completed at the Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on Die Hand am Werk. Perspektiven einer Poetik der Poiesis in der russischen Avantgarde (The Hand at Work: Perspectives on a poetics of poiesis in the Russian avant-garde)
2003 Doctorate (summa cum laude) completed at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a dissertation on Allegorien der Imagination. Lesbarkeit und Sichtbarkeit im frühen russischen Barock, (Allegories of Imagination: Legibility and visibility in the early Russian Baroque), awarded the 2003 Humboldt Prize

Conceptual history and history of knowledge (especially transdisciplinary concepts of enérgeia (poetics of energy); poetic and political metaphors of building in socialism)
Arts and cultural history of the manual (literature and operativity; poetics of the tool; philology of the hand)
Literature and mediality (media history of writing practices; criticism of script/graphoclasm; optical and tactile dispositifs of literature)
Rhetorical theory (allegory; rhetoric of the senses)