Prof. Dr. Holger Kuße
Curriculum vitae
- Born 1964 in Osnabrück, Germany
- Russian Studies, Study of Slavic Philology, Protestant Theology and Pedagogy in Mainz, Vienna and Frankfurt/Main
- Doctorate 1997 on conjunctional coordination in Russian sermons and political speeches
- Habilitation 2002 on metadiscursive argumentation in the Russian philosophical discourse from Lomonosov to Losev
- Several stays at the Academies of Sciences in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Prague
- 1993 to 2002 Research Associate at the Department of Slavic Philology at the University of Frankfurt/Main, since 2003 university lecturer
- 2003/2004 Visiting Professor at the Institute for Slavic Languages at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
- 2004/2005 Deputy Chair of Linguistics and History of Slavic Languages at the Institute of Slavic Studies at Technische Universität Dresden, 2005 appointment to the Chair
- 2013 Member of group Konstanzer Kreis
- 2015 Admission to Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz
- 2019 Distinguished Professor at School of Foreign Languages at the university of Sanya (China) (to the news)
- 06/2020 - 02/2022 Leading Research Fellow of International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue at Higher School of Economics in Moscow
- 2021 Medal of merit for understanding among nations Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan
Visiting Professor
- June 2018 - Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg
- March 2019 - Minsk State Linguistic University, Minsk
- November 2019 - University of Sanya, Hainan, China
- October 2020 - Higher School of Economics, Moscow
- November 2020 - Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg
Member- and Editorship
- Since 1997 co-editor of the series Specimina philologiae Slavicae, since 1995 of its sub-series 'Slavische Sprachwissenschaft und Interdisziplinarität'
- Since 2009 co-editor of journal Zeitschrift für Slawistik
- Since 2013 member of group Konstanzer Kreis
- Member of the Research Group Russian Philosophy and JungslavistInnen, of German Association of Slavists (Deutscher Slavistenverband)
- Since 2015 member of Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz
- Since 2022 member of Rada Programowa / Program Council
Research foci:
Theory of language (especially on the relationship between semantics and pragmatics), cultural linguistics, discourse and argumentation linguistics, semantics and pragmalinguistics of contemporary Slavic languages, historical pragmatics, studies on discourses and language varieties (especially Russian philosophical discourse, political and religious discourse, as well as advertising in the Slavia) and other aspects of linguistic-cultural interaction (e.g. intercultural communication, written linguistics)