2010-2015: Studied European ethnology, philosophy and Eastern European studies at LMU Munich, the Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University New York
2020: Completed doctorate (summa cum laude) at the Freie Universität Berlin on “Die metahistoriographische Revolution. Zur Problematisierung historischer Erkenntnis in der russischen Gegenwartsliteratur” (The Metahistoriographical Revolution: Problematizing historical knowledge in contemporary Russian literature)
Since April 2016: Research Assistant at the Institute for East European Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin
Research Areas
Russian literature and culture of the 19th to 21st centuries (poetics of genre (the historical novel, documentarism), poetics of affect (nostalgia, melancholy), literature as history of knowledge (cybernetics, meteorology))
History of imagination in Turkmenistan and Baku (film, literature, music)