Yaraslava Ananka is (since 2023) junior professor of Eastern Slavic Literatures at the Leipzig University. Her research interests are East Slavic and Polish cultural and literary relations in the 19th century, Russian emigration in the 1920s in Germany, Belorussian contemporary poetry and protest culture, Eastern European stand-up as oral history, dilettantism as technique, iconoclastic practices of resistance in Ukraine. She is an author and co-editor of the books:

– Kanikuly Kaina: Poėtika promežutka v berlinskich stichach V.F. Chodaseviča [Cain’s Vacations: The Poetics of the Interval in Berlin Poems by Vladislav Khodasevich] 2020. (Dissertation) https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/nauchnaya_biblioteka/22632/

– Heu auf dem Asphalt. Topoi belarussischer Selbstverortungen [ed. with M. Marszałek and H. Kirschbaum]. 2021. https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/titel_6835.ahtml

– Potemkinsche Dörfer der Idylle. Imaginationen und Imitationen des Ruralen in den europäischen Literaturen [ed. with M. Marszałek]. 2018. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4281-0/potemkinsche-doerfer-der-idylle/