Schamma Schahadat

Schamma Schahadat is Professor of Russian and Polish literature at the University of Tübingen, with an interest in literary theory, translation studies, cultural and literary theory, gender studies, the interrelation of space and power, and film history. Currently she is principal investigator in a German-Polish research project on East and Central European literary history as an histoire croisée. Some of the newer publications: Übersetzungslandschaften. Themen und Akteure der Übersetzungslandschaft in Ost- und Mitteleuropa [Translation landscapes. Topics and Agents in the Translation Landscape in East and Central Europe], ed. with Štĕpán Zbytovský, 2016; “Themenschwerpunkt: Polnische Literaturtheorie I & II” (Polish Literary Theory I & II), Welt der Slaven 61.1 & 61.2., ed. with Michał Mrugalski; Der polnische Film von seinen Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart (Polish Film from its Beginning up to the Present), ed. with Margarete Wach & Konrad Klejsa, 2012.