K. (Ksenia) Robbe, Dr

Academic positions

September 2022 - June 2023 - residential fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS); on leave from RUG

Since August 2020 - Senior lecturer in European Culture and Literature (Russian)

August 2019 - July 2020 - Assistant Professor in European Culture and Literature (Russian)

March - July 2019 - EURIAS Visiting research fellow at the Polish Institute for Advanced Studies (PIASt)

August 2012 - July 2019 - Assistant professor in African, Russian and Comparative Literature at LUCAS, Leiden University (tenured from August 2018)

March -July 2012 - Lecturer at the English Department, Chair of English, Postcolonial and Media Studies, University of Münster, Germany

Jan. - March 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Group Universality and the Acceptance Potential of Social Knowledge: On the Circulation of Knowledge between Europe and the Global South, University of Freiburg, Germany

Oct. 2007 – Sept. 2011 Ph.D. Fellow at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Gießen, Germany (fully funded by the DFG Excellencce Initiative scheme)

Current academic service

Board Member of the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Groningen 

Programme Committee MA Literary Studies, University of Groningen

Co-convener of the Memory Studies Association Working Group for Post-socialist and Comparative Memory Studies and editor of the group's newsletter

PhD supervision 

Rose Smith, “Identifying the Role of Museums and its Construction of the Memory of Communism in Post-Communist National Identities” (2020- 2024); co-tutelle with Charles University Prague, co-supervised with Dr. Michal Kopecek (Prague) and Prof. Dr. Pablo Valdivia (Groningen).

Bianca Ramírez Rivera, "'Yo sentía que no estábamos solos.' Sensorial perception and its role in the experience of former detenidos-desaparecidos" (2023-2027), co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Pablo Valdivia and Dr. Konstantin Mierau