Head of Department

Prof. Dr. Stephan Kessler

Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz 3
17489 Greifswald
Room: E.54

+49 (0)3834 420 3200
email:

stephan.kessler(at)uni-greifswald.de

Office hours:
by prior arrangement with the Secretary’s Office

CV
26 April 1966 Born in Krefeld (NRW)
1985 Abitur in Xanten (NRW)
1987-1994 Studies of Slavonic Studies and Philosophy at the University of Konstanz, and from summer semester 1990, Baltic Philology, Slavonic Studies and Philosophy at the University of Münster; completion of Magister degree in 1994;
1990-1991 DAAD scholarship for studies at the University of Latvia, Riga
1994-1998 Doctorate in Slavonic Philology, Baltic Philo¬logy and Philo¬sophy under Prof. Dr. F. Scholz at WWU Münster; completed in 1998;
1995-1997 Scholarship holder in the Graduate Funding Programme of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen
1999-2001 DFG research grant for studies in Wroclaw (Poland)
2001-2007 Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Jochen Dieter Range (then Chair of Baltic Philology at the University of Greifswald)
2004 Completed post-doctoral qualification (Habilitation) at the University of Greifswald’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities; then awarded title Privatdozent with a venia for ‘Baltic Philology’; post-doctoral thesis on genre theory (literary studies) and Lithuanian idylls of the 18th and 19th centuries
2006-2008 Interim professor at the Chair of Baltic Studies at the Department of Baltic Studies (from 01 January 2008 to 31 December 2012: Department of Foreign Language Philology) at the University of Greifswald
Since 01 June 2008 Professor of Baltic Studies at the University of Greifswald’s Department of Baltic Studies

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Happy Endings in Literature on GrypsTube