Nina Friess

(Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Germany)

Nina Friess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOiS) Berlin. She studied Political Science and Slavic Studies in Heidelberg, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation), and Potsdam. From 2009 to 2016 she was a research fellow at the Department of Eastern Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Potsdam. In 2015 she completed her doctorate on the contemporary memory of Stalinist repressions in Russia. Her research interests include memory studies, links between politics and literature, children’s and crossover literature, Russophone literatures and cultures.