Research

Her research runs from the historical novel of the nineteenth century to the cinema of the twentieth, and from the archives of Austrian Galicia to a forgotten discovery in the history of science.

Fields

  • Comparative Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Polish) and English literature
  • East Central European film and culture
  • European studies
  • Austrian Galicia
  • Languages, literatures and linguistics
  • Genealogy and family history in Galicia
  • History of science: the early history of probiotics

Two stories

  • Glasnost and Film. Four symposia, a book, a lecture tour and eighteen documentary videos, 1989 to 1992.
  • The Kindraczuk Story. A paper of three pages, published in Vienna in 1912, and the granddaughter who went looking for it.

Current work

  • Nineteenth-century Austrian Galicia: multicultural aspects of its literature and culture
  • Comparative English and Slavic literature and culture (Polish, Ukrainian, Russian) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • Subversive cinema: existentialism and Judeo-Christian themes in the films of East Central Europe and the former USSR

Full references: Publications.