Members

Eugenia Kelbert is a Researcher at the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences where she is the PI of a 5-year IMPULZ project on translation and language contact in literature. She is also an Honorary Researcher at the University of East Anglia and Co-Director of UEA’s East Centre for the study of the former Soviet space. After defending her prize-winning dissertation in comparative literature at Yale University, she has worked at the University of Passau, the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the University of East Anglia. She is currently completing a monograph on literary translingualism; her recent work has appeared at Critical Inquiry, Target, Meta, Scando-Slavica, Journal of World Literature, World Literature Studies and Modernism/Modernity.

Marianna Deganutti is the author of several articles on borderland studies, literary multilingualism and trauma in leading international academic journals. Her new monograph on literary multilingualism in borderlands was published by Routledge in 2023. She has recently co-edited three Special Issues: “Code-switching as a Narrative Resource” (Forum for Modern Language Studies 2024), “Trauma and Multilingualism in Literature” (The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies 2025) and "Code-mixing: Exploring Linguistic Hybridity in Literary Texts" (Comparative Critical Studies 2025). She is also co-founder of the research group on literary multilingualism LangueFlow (https://langueflow.eu/) and Working Group Leader of the CA24137 - "Literary multilingualism and social transformations in superdiverse societies" (MultiLiLiTrans). She is member of the Mobility Program “Hungarian and Slovak Literature in the Central European Cultural Space 6. – 'World Literature' from the perspective of 'small literatures'”.

Lucija Mandić is a researcher at the Institute of World Literature at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In January 2025, she defended her dissertation titled A Computational Reading of Slovenian Narrative Prose of the Long Nineteenth Century in the Context of Literary Canonisation. In 2024, she became a member of the ICLA Research Committee on Digital Comparative Literature and the ICLA Research Committee on Language Contact in Literature: Europe. She has published several articles on computational literary studies, Slovenian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, West Slavic literatures, neo-avant-garde literature, cultural nationalism, and cultural transfers.