Natalia Grinina

Natalia Grinina (*1993) studied General and Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Art History at Freie Universität Berlin (BA) and completed her Master's degree in “Cultures and Literatures of Central and Eastern Europe” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2020 she has been a research assistant at the Institute for Slavic and Hungarian Studies at the HU, in the Department of East Slavic Cultures and Literatures (Chair of Prof. Dr. Susanne Frank). Her seminars, publications and lectures focus on geopoetics, spatial theory, archival and metaphor research. Her dissertation deals with the comparative history of the island (“Topologies and Topographies of the Insular”) in Russian and Russian-Soviet literary and cultural history. Since the beginning of the Russian large-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022, she has been intensively studying Russian propaganda narratives and has organized a lecture series on the topic “#Disinformation Kills! Language of Propaganda and Resistance in the Context of Russia's War against Ukraine” in summer 2023.