K. (Ksenia) Robbe, Dr

Academic positions

October 2025 – August 2026: Visiting Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt

September 2022 - June 2023: residential fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)

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)

PhD supervision 

Rose Smith, “Identifying the Role of Museums and its Construction of the Memory of Communism in Post-Communist National Identities” (2020- 2025); co-tutelle with Charles University Prague, supervised with 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), supervised with Prof. Dr. Pablo Valdivia and Dr. Konstantin Mierau.

Marina Grisko, “Remembering Soviet Infrastructures in Eastern Europe: Visual Politics and Poetics” (2024–2028), supervised with Dr. Alberto Godioli and Dr. Senka Neuman-Stanivukovic.

Lilit Khandakaryan, “Visual Resistances: Altering (Post)Soviet Memory in the Photographic and Comic Art of Young Armenian Artists” (2024–2028), supervised with Dr. Alberto Godioli.

Anna Doyle, "Experimenting with Beauty in Socialism: Beauty in Avant-garde Cinema of State-Socialist Eastern Europe" (2024–2027), supervised with Prof. Julian Hanich and Prof. Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University)