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Matthias Freise is Professor of Slavic Literature at the University of Göttingen and Director of the Department of Slavic Philology. A specialist in Russian, Polish and Czech literature and theory, he is co-editor of the journal Germanoslavica and serves on the boards of the International Dostoevsky Society, the American Chekhov Society and several other learned bodies.
Education and career:
- Studied Slavic and West-Slavic philology and philosophy, University of Hamburg (doctorate on Bakhtin)
- Habilitation, University of Oldenburg (monograph on Chekhov’s prose)
- Subject coordinator and project leader, Humanities Centre for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe, Leipzig
- 2000–2003 Professor of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Salzburg
- Since 2003 Chair of Slavic Literature, University of Göttingen
Research interests encompass symbolism and the avant-garde in Slavic literatures, literary and cultural theory, comparative studies, and the work of Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Lermontov, Čapek, Schulz, Miłosz and Wat. His methodological spectrum ranges from philological close reading and structural poetics to cultural-semiotic and post-colonial approaches.
Freise’s more than one hundred essays display a clear long-term trajectory: early studies on Bakhtin and Chekhov (1990s) expanded into comparative work on Central-European modernism, the poetics of Czesław Miłosz, and questions of canon-formation and aesthetic evaluation. Recent articles integrate narratological theory, translation studies and philosophical aesthetics, often treating Russian-Polish-Czech intersections with German literature.
Editorial and organisational activities:
- Co-editor, Germanoslavica
- Member, American Chekhov Society
- Member, International Dostoevsky Society
- Member, Karl Lamprecht Society for Universal History
- Member, Societas Jablonoviana
He has directed numerous conferences and co-edited ten collective volumes, including essay collections on Aleksander Wat, Lermontov, evaluation and canon, and Russian nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. No current grant data or named doctoral students are supplied in the source materials.
