Karoline Thaidigsmann

(Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany)

Karoline Thaidigsmann is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer of Polish and Russian Literature at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg. She studied Slavic Studies, Psychology and Theology in Heidelberg and Wrocław (Poland). In 2009 she completed her doctorate on the experience in Soviet work camps and its influence on identity in Russian Literature. She is currently working on her habilitation about Crossover Literature and Cultural Identity in Poland since 1989. Her research interests include children’s and crossover literature, contemporary Polish literature, trauma narratives, memory studies, literature and identity.