Literature, Science and Global Russians. Interview with Olga Breininger

... can serve as a good support for attempts to effect changes at the global level. Tell us about your research interests. What are you writing your doctoral dissertation about? Was the choice of topic a natural result of the general trajectory of your education thus far? Or was it influenced by other factors? Has your fiction writing played a part in your academic work? Right now, I am working primarily as a literary anthropologist. My research interests are modern Russian literature and politics and anything connected with the Northern Caucasus. I arrived at this subject by way of contemporary literature and postcolonial theory, with which I was deeply involved at one point in my career. What attracted me to the Northern ...