Alina Molisak

Alina Molisak is a literature historian at the Institute of Polish Literature of the University of Warsaw (as Gastdozentin she taught in Berlin and Hamburg). Her research interests focus on the cultural history of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, the formation of a modern Jewish identity, and the poetics of space and memory studies.
Position: Institute of Polish Literature

Alina Molisak is a literature historian at the Institute of Polish Literature of the University of Warsaw (as Gastdozentin she taught in Berlin and Hamburg). Her research interests focus on the cultural history of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, the formation of a modern Jewish identity, and the poetics of space and memory studies. Her recent and most important publications include: the monograph Jewish Warsaw – Jewish Berlin. Literary Portrayal of the City in the First Half of the 20th century (Peter Lang, 2021); two chapters: “1939-1941 – eine besondere Epoche in Lwów/Lwiw…“ (in Jüdische Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller aus der Ukraine als Grenzgänger zwischen Kulturen in Ost und West, ed. K. Schoor, I. Voloshchuk, B. Bigun, Wallstein Verlag, 2020), “On Behalf of the Dead: Mediumistic Writing on the Holocaust in Polish Literature” (in The “Spectral Turn” Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire, ed. Z Dziuban, Transcript Verlag, 2019). Together with Anja Tippner, she directed the project ‘Nach dem Holocaust. Postkatastrophische Narrative in der polnischen Literatur’ (https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/slavistik/downloads/projektbeschreibung-holocaust.pdf) funded by the Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung.

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