A closer look – Researchers in portrait
In the series 'A closer look - Researchers in Portrait' we present new Chairs, researchers, and young researchers of our School as well as their research. In the archive you will find all researchers presented so far in chronological order.
To view our more recent presentations of researchers, please refer to the German website.
Table of contents
- 2023
- Anna Vichkitova: Research Fellow at the Institute of Slavic Studies
- Dr. Alison Sperling: New Junior Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies
- Dr. Yvan Stacy: New Junior Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies
- Dr. Nadiia Kravchenko is new Maria Reiche Fellow at the Institute of History
- 2022
- 2019
- 2018
- Digital learning environments to promote vocational training
- Roman historiography
- In the Italy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- The Anglophone literature of Africa
- Culture-forming functions of narration
- Between artificial intelligence and the effects of populism
- From landscape planning to the question of how society and space are connected
- Changes and upheavals in history
- Collecting knowledge: Between Grammar and Digital Humanities
- 2023
2023
Anna Vichkitova: Research Fellow at the Institute of Slavic Studies
Anna Vichkitova studied Russian Language and Literature at the St. Petersburg State University and Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg. Currently, she is enrolled in a Ph.D. program on the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. From October 2023 to September 2024, she will also be a guest at Prof. Klavdia Smola's Chair of Slavic Literatures.
Learn more about Anna Vichkitova
Dr. Alison Sperling: New Junior Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies
Alison Sperling is an Assistant Professor at Florida State University and at the same time a freelance artist in Berlin. In July and August of 2023, she will now visit the TU Dresden for the secnd time as a Junior Fellow at the Chair of Literature of North America with a focus on Future Studies of JProf. Moritz Ingwersen. In keeping with her research, she will also be participating with her own event at "Disruptive Imaginations", the joint annual conference of the German Society for Fantasy Research and the American Science Fiction Research Association, organized by the professorship.
Learn more about Dr. Alison Sperling
Dr. Yvan Stacy: New Junior Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies
After completing his PhD in English Literature at Newcastle University in 2013, Yvan Stacy was drawn out into the world, especially Asia. After positions as a lecturer in Bhutan and Hong Kong, he was first employed as an Associate Professor at the School of International Studies at Zhejiang University in China and then moved to Beijing Normal University in 2019, where he continues to teach and conduct research to this day. Now he joins Prof. Cornelia Wächter's Chair of British Cultural Studies as a Junior Fellow. In the profile he talks about his research and gives recommendations for contemporary Chinese fiction. Learn more about Dr. Yvan Stacy...
Dr. Nadiia Kravchenko is new Maria Reiche Fellow at the Institute of History
Dr. Nadiia Kravchenko has been a guest at the Chair of Saxon Regional History of Prof. Andreas Rutz since March 2023. The historian comes from Kyiv and has been a research assistant at the National Historical Museum of Ukraine since 2018. While working at the museum, she completed her PhD at the National Taras Shevchenko University on hunting in the Volhynian and Kyiv voivodeships in the 16th and early 17th centuries. With support from the Maria Reiche Fellowship, Nadiia Kravchenko is currently developing a new research project, which is expected to again have a substantive focus on early modern hunting.
Learn more about Dr. Nadiia Kravchenko
2022
Dr. Věra Soukupová is a new Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of History
Since November, Dr. Věra Soukupová, a researcher at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Academy of Sciences in Prague, has been a guest at the Chair of Medieval History of Prof. Uwe Israel. She hopes that her Dresden colleagues will provide her with new methodological impulses for her own research on medieval Czech literature. She is currently working on a project on the argumentative and literary strategies in the text of Ctibor Tovačovský of Cimburk. Her eight-month stay was made possible by a Humboldt Research Fellowship, with which the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors academics with above-average qualifications from all over the world and supports them in their international networking.
Learn more about Dr. Věra Soukupová
Dr. Timur Atnashev is the new fellow at the the Slavic Literatures
Timur Atnashev is an intellectual historian of the Soviet, Russian, and European political languages and political philosophy. He has worked extensively on the late-Soviet period, perestroika and early 1990s as well as the Cambridge school methodology. In 2020 Timur Atnashev joined NLO, one of the most significant and one of the last independent publishing houses in social sciences and humanities in Russia, as an editor of the Intellectual history series. From the beginning of October until the end of the year, he will be a visiting fellow at the Chair of Slavic Literatures.
Learn more about Timur Atnashev
2019
Integration measures at municipal level
July 2019
Dr. Naoko Okamoto is lecturer at Nihon University in Tokyo and since April visiting researcher at the Center for Integration Studies at TU Dresden. Before, she worked as a research officer for foreigner affairs in the city of Kawasaki. She studied Pedagogy at the College of Education and Social Sciences at Waseda University in Tokyo. more
2018
Digital learning environments to promote vocational training
November 2018
Prof. Stephan Abele is the Chair of Vocational Education at the Faculty of Education. His research is aimed at identifying and understanding fundamental relationships in the area of vocational teaching and learning. He and his team are currently developing a computer-based learning environment to foster individual learning processes and to explore how different types of learners respond to it. more
Roman historiography
September 2018
Dr. Virginia Fabrizi is a DRESDEN Junior Fellow at the Institute of Classical Philology. Her research is guided by the question of how literary Roman texts represented the history of Rome - the narrative-theoretical approach is particularly fascinating for her. Dr. Fabrizi is currently analysing a text by the historian Titus Livius and his description of historical events. more
In the Italy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
June 2018
Prof. Massimo Zaggia is a DRESDEN Senior Fellow at the Institute of Romance Studies and has previously taught and conducted research in France, Argentina and the USA. He is interested in the Italian literary culture of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is currently conducting research on the distribution of Italian manuscripts north of the Alps - especially in Germany. more
The Anglophone literature of Africa
June 2018
Prof. Wumi Raji is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of English and American Studies in the summer semester 2018. He comes from Nigeria and conducts research on African dramatic literature, African adaptations of Western dramas, African literature of the transatlantic imagination, and identity and exclusion in African migration novels. more
Culture-forming functions of narration
May 2018
Dr. Solvejg Nitzke holds the Open Topic Postdoc position at the Chair of Media Studies and Modern German Literature. Her research focuses on the culture-forming functions of narration, for example on catastrophes, unsolved mysteries and natural disasters. Narratives always serve a purpose - revealing these purposes is what Dr. Nitzke sees as her task. more
Between artificial intelligence and the effects of populism
May 2018
Prof. Sven Engesser has been Chair of Media and Communication / Science and Technology Communication at TU Dresden since 2017. He focuses on the transformation processes in communication caused by technology. In an observation laboratory he investigates on how the interaction of people changes when they are confronted with intelligent everyday objects. In addition, he examines how the media increase or decrease the effects of populism, and how media report on climate change and on resistance to antibiotics. more
From landscape planning to the question of how society and space are connected
April 2018
Dr. Noa K. Ha, Junior Research Group Leader at the Center for Integration Studies (ZfI), started her career by training as a landscape gardener. Her academic stations increasingly led to issues of social processes that are influenced by urban spaces. Her focus is on postcolonial and decolonial theory as well as on racism-critical theory. Her research focuses in particular on issues of public space, gender relations, migration, flight and discrimination, urban development policy, urban memory policy, and the Asian diaspora in European cities. more
Changes and upheavals in history
March 2018
Junior Professor Buchen holds the BKM Junior Professorship in Social and Economic Networks of Germans in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. His career took him via Berlin, Warsaw, Bamberg, Frankfurt/Oder and Edinburgh to Dresden. Here, he focuses primarily on how the profound changes and upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe under the empires, during the world wars, and in the inter-war and post-war periods affected the people of the region. more
Collecting knowledge: Between Grammar and Digital Humanities
March 2018
Prof. Alexander Lasch is Chair of Linguistics and History of German. He did his doctorate at TU Dresden and after a couple of stops he returned to this University. His areas of expertise include construction grammar as well as the broad field of digital humanities. He is chairman of the Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte e.V. (GGSG - Association for the History of German Languages). more