Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl Awarded Venia Docendi in Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies

21 October 2024, University of Graz

On 1 October 2024, team member Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl successfully defended her post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) with a lecture talk entitled “Chronicles of Forgetting: Dementia Narratives in Mlakić, Pregelj, and Gospodinov” and drawing on research carried out within the framework of the “Transforming Anxieties of Ageing” project. The University of Graz awarded her the Venia Docendi in Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies.

Her post-doctoral thesis (German title: Erzählte Heimkehr aus dem Exil: Postkoloniale Perspektiven auf ein russisches Narrativ) is dedicated to imaginings of homecoming in Russian literature of exile as compared to other Slavic (exilic) literatures (e.g., Ukrainian and Bosnian). In her close readings of literary texts, she adopted a post-colonial approach to analysing cultural representations and constructions of “homeland”.