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Chair of Slavic Literatures
© Prof. Dr. Klavdia Smola
Chair
NameProfessor Dr. Klavdia Smola
Chair of Slavic Literatures
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Bürogebäude Wiener Straße, Raum 219 Wiener Straße 48
01219 Dresden
Office hours:
- Thursday:
- 13:00 - 14:00
At the Chair of Slavic Literatures, we teach and research Slavic literature and cultures in all their geographical and chronological breadth. There is a special focus on Russian, Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian culture, as well as on the cultures of Eastern European minorities.
Research Interests
- Alternative and dissenting art and literature
- Boundary phenomena and transfer processes in literature, culture and science
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Chair of Western Slavic Literatures and Cultural Studies
© Prof. Dr. Christian Prunitsch
Chair
NameProf. Dr. Christian Prunitsch
Chair of Western Slavic Literatures and Cultural Studies
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Bürogebäude Wiener Straße, Room 218 Wiener Straße 48
01219 Dresden
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- Monday:
- 11:00 - 12:00
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From the spectrum of Western Slavic studies, the Chair in research and teaching focuses in particular on subjects of Polish Studies and Sorabistics. This includes the history of Polish literature and culture from the Renaissance to the present with a focus on Romanticism and the interwar period. Sorbian literature and culture are examined in their entire breadth; especially literature from the middle of the 20th century. The topics and questions in research and teaching refer to a comprehensive interest in the knowledge of structures in the Western Slavia that are specific to particular eras and cultural areas. These structures, both in comparison and through in-depth analyses of cultural narratives, provide the basis for comprehensive insights within the research priority area Culture and Societal Change at TU Dresden. The basis for theses studies is a semiotic approach to culture that is based on a broad understanding of the functionality of cultural texts from epic to rock songs. In connection with current tendencies in the theory construction in literature and cultural studies, this results in minority cultures being a focal area of research.
Research Interests
- Western Slavic literatures and cultures
- Semiotics of culture
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