Ulrich Schmid
Ulrich Schmid is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests include nationalism, popular culture and media in Eastern Europe. He studied German and Slavic literature at the Universities of Zurich, Heidelberg, and Leningrad. He has held academic positions in Basel, Bern, Bochum, and was a visiting researcher at Harvard University, in Warsaw, and in Oslo. His publications include Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine's...See more
Ulrich Schmid is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. His research interests include nationalism, popular culture and media in Eastern Europe. He studied German and Slavic literature at the Universities of Zurich, Heidelberg, and Leningrad. He has held academic positions in Basel, Bern, Bochum, and was a visiting researcher at Harvard University, in Warsaw, and in Oslo. His publications include Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine's Heterogeneity (ed. 2019); De Profundis: On the Failure of the Russian Revolution (ed. 2017); Technologies of the Soul: The Production of Truth in Contemporary Russian Culture (2015); Sword, Eagle and Cross: The Aesthetics of the Nationalist Discourse in Interwar Poland (ed. 2013) and Tolstoi as a Theological Thinker and Critic of the Church (ed. 2013). See less