Manuel Ghilarducci is visiting professor at the Institute of Slavic and Hungarian Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests include: Russian, Polish, Serbian, and Belarusian literatures and cultures from the 19th century until today; intersections between philosophy and literature; discourses of self-identification in Belarusian contemporary literature and popular culture and music; metalinguistic literature; topoi of obscurity and opacity in Russian, Serbian and Polish poetry of the fin de siècle.