Alexander Meienberger

Title

Dr.

Last Name

Meienberger

First name

Alexander

alexander.meienberger@unisg.ch

ORCID

Phone

+41 71 224 3507

Main focuses

Nineteenth-, twentieth-centuries and contemporary Russian literature

Medical Humanities

Fields of research

Eastern European studies

Literary and cultural studies

Further fields of research

Literature and Cultural Studies

Philosophy

Biomedical Ethics

Education(s)

2018 - 2023 Ph.D. in Organization Studies and Cultural Theory at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2017 Master of Arts (M.A.) (Eastern Europe: History and Media)
2016 four-month research stay at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
2014 - 2017 Master studies of Eastern European history and media at the University of Konstanz
2014 Specialist Diploma (International Affairs )
2013 four-month exchange semester at the University of Konstanz, Germany
2009 - 2014 Diploma Degree in International Affairs at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) Moscow, Russia

Professional Career

since 2023 Executive director of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europa (GCE-HSG)
since 2022 Assistant to the Vice-Rector for External Relations
since 2021 Program manager Public Lectures Program HSG Events Office
since 2019 Program manager Early Career Programme
2019 - 2022 Assistant at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG)
2011 - 2014 Internship in Marketing and Communications Department at Bosch Security Systems, Moscow
2010 - 2010 Internship in the Press Department in the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce, Moscow

Teaching activities

Russian special path? Empire, invasion, isolation (University of St.Gallen HS 2023)
Food in the Russian literature (University of Konstanz SoSe2023)
"Russkij mir": Ideology and Literature (University of Konstanz WiSe 2020/21)
Discourses on peace and war in Russian culture (in cooperation with Dr. Renata von Maydell, University of Konstanz SoSe 2019)

Talk(s)

Affiliation(s)

Editorial board(s)

Projects(s)

2018-2023 Dissertation project "The Foundation "Russkiy mir" as an ideological network".
since 2023 The portrayal of medicine in modern Russian literature.