Contact
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institut für Anglophone Studien
R12 S04 H87
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Germany
Room: R12 S04 H87
E-mail: alexandra.berlina [at] uni-due.de
Phone: +49 201 183-2285
Fax: +49 201 183-4224
Office hours
Biographical Information
09/2008
MA in Comparative Literature (with distinction) from University College London
2007
Magister examinations passed with the average grade of 1.075
09/2006
scholarship awarded by the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes"
09/2003
begins Magister studies in in Modern English, American, German and Old English Studies at the University of Düsseldorf
07/2003
Abitur (Gymnasium Gerresheim in Düsseldorf), begins working as a freelance translator and interpreter
03/1997
family moves to Germany
04/1984
born in Moscow
Research Interests
- Comparative literature, Translation studies
- Canon and genre studies
- Russian-American literary relations
- 20th-Century American and British literature
- Specific authors: Cunningham, Nabokov, Brodsky
Publications
Articles
"Comparative Literature in Central and East Europe Including Russia", in The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Literature, with Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, 2012
“Homosexuality in the Russian Translation of The Hours”, in Sexuality and Culture, 2012
"Critically Ignored: Russian Magical Realism and Pelevin as its Exponent," in Comparative Literature and Culture. June 2009.
Other
textbooks „Russisch Grundwortschatz" (Klett-Pons), literary translations and fiction in several magazines and anthologies.
Courses Taught at the UDE
- PS A Survey of American Literature
- PS Post-War American Novels
- PS Modern American Short Stories
- HS American and British Novels on Paper and Screen
- HS First Novels by Young American Writers
- HS Russian Americans: Novokov, Brodsky, Grushina
- HS Two Emigré Poets: W.H. Auden and Joseph Brodsky