Ruhr Universität Bochum
Deutschsprachige Autoren aus der Bukowina: Die kulturelle Herkunft als bleibendes Motiv in der Identitätssuche deutschsprachiger Autoren aus der Bukowina
PD Dr. Natalia Blum-Barth (formerly Shchyhlevska) is Privatdozentin in German and Comparative Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and currently Project Coordinator at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). She studied German Studies and Pedagogy at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and continued her academic training at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she completed both her doctorate and habilitation.
Her research focuses on European-Jewish literature and culture, multilingual writing, exile and migration studies, intertextuality, and transnational literary networks. In her habilitation study Poietik der Mehrsprachigkeit. Theorie und Techniken des multilingualen Schreibens (2021), she developed a typology of multilingual writing practices in modern literature.
Natalia Blum-Barth is the author and editor of numerous books and essays on German-Jewish, East European, and multilingual literatures. Her work combines literary theory, comparative literature, archive-based research, and cultural history. She has received several academic distinctions and fellowships, including the Alfried Krupp Junior Fellowship at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald and the Leo Baeck Fellowship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.