Renate Misevica-Trillitzsch

Renate Misevica-Trillitzsch serves as a Lecturer at the Seminar for Slavic Studies within the Philosophical Faculty II at Humboldt University of Berlin. She has held the position of "Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben" (Teacher for Special Assignments) at the Slavic Studies Seminar since October 2019, focusing on Polish language instruction and research.

Her academic background includes:

• Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Latvia, Riga (2016) with dissertation on Polish-Latvian dictionaries from the 17th-20th centuries
• Doctoral scholarship from the European Social Fund (2010-2013, 2015)
• Scientific staff and teaching position at the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia (2007-2017)
• Bachelor's degree in European Studies with cultural studies focus from Chemnitz University of Technology (2003-2006)
• Master's degree in Polish Philology with focuses on Pedagogy and Journalism from Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, scholarship recipient from the Polish government (1997-2003)

Misevica-Trillitzsch specializes in the didactics of Polish as a foreign language and comparative historical lexicography. Her research examines cultural representations in Polish-Latvian dictionaries across centuries, analyzing how worldviews are encoded linguistically. She has conducted significant work on rural life depictions, sacred versus profane terminology, and lexical borrowing between Slavic and Baltic languages in historical dictionaries.

Her publication record shows a consistent research trajectory focused on Polish-Latvian linguistic relations, with particular attention to Antanas Juška's dictionaries and Lexicon Lothavicum. Her work bridges linguistic analysis with cultural history, revealing how bilingual dictionaries serve as cultural artifacts reflecting historical relationships between Poland and Latvia.

She has received support through the European Social Fund for her doctoral research and has contributed to understanding foreign language education through student perspective surveys at the University of Latvia.