Experts on Eastern Europe at the University of Innsbruck
Mathias ALTHALER,
Mag.
Research area: Translation Studies
Specialisations: interpreting and translation (Russian–German)
Vladimir BALAKHONOV,
MA
Research area: Translation Studies
Specialisations: conference interpreting (German–Russian)
Eva BINDER,
Dr.
Research area: Russian Studies
Specialisations: Russian culture of the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on film and media
Eric BURTON,
Dr.
Research area: Contemporary History
Specialisations: decolonisation, educational migration, East-South relations during the Cold War
Research area: General and Comparative Literary Studies
Specialisations: German-Russian literary relations; theory and history of literary translation; literary absurdism ( i.a. Daniil Charms); literary structuralism (i.a. Roman Jakobson); metrics theory (i.a. with reference to Jurij Tynjanov, Viktor Žirmunskij, Michail Gasparov)
Jürgen FUCHSBAUER,
Prof. Dr.
Department of Slavonic Studies
at the moment Dean of the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture
Research area: Slavonic Linguistics
Specialisations: Slavonic classical philology, Byzantine-Slavic interrelations, Balkan studies, editorial studies, palaeography
Alena HEINRITZ,
Dr.
Research area: General and Comparative Literary Studies
Specialisations: Russian and Czech literature of the 20th and 21st centuries
Research area: Russian Linguistics / Subject Didactics of Russian
Specialisations: language, politics and media in Russia (esp. television) and propaganda strategies
Research area: International Economics and Business Studies
Specialisations: finances and intercultural communication
Gerhard MANGOTT,
Univ.-Prof. Dr.
Research area: International Relations
Specialisations: Russian domestic and foreign affairs
Dirk RUPNOW,
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Department of Contemporary History
at the moment Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History
Research area: European Contemporary History in a global context
Specialisations: Holocaust and Jewish Studies, cultures of remembrance and politics of history, museology, history of migration and science
Kurt SCHARR,
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Research area: History
Specialisations: South-Eastern Europe, Habsburg Monarchy, 18th and 19th century