Visiting Scholars
Currrent Visiting Scholars
Janete Eloi Guimaraes
Visiting PhD Student
Janete Eloi Guimarães is a PhD candidate in English at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, advised by Prof. Renata L. Dalmaso. For the 2026–2027 academic year, she is a visiting PhD student at the University of Alberta, Canada, supervised by Prof. Laura J. Beard. Her research examines life narratives written by Indigenous women in Canada, focusing on the intersections of Indigenous epistemologies, gender coloniality, and posthumanism. Drawing on life writing studies, decolonial feminist theory, Indigenous literary studies, and feminist new materialism, she investigates how Indigenous women’s self-representations challenge Eurocentric models of subjectivity and articulate alternative ways of knowing and being.
Dr. Kostiantyn Moharychev
Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor
Kostiantyn (Kostia) Moharychev is currently a Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. Previously, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Purdue University (USA). His research explores Jewish political history in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, with a focus on Soviet Jewish unit projects. In 2021, he defended his dissertation and published the book Our New Soviet Zion: Project and Creation Attempts of the Jewish National Entity in Crimea (in Russian), which examines the “Crimean Project” — an effort to establish a Jewish national entity in the Soviet Union. He is currently working on a refined and expanded English translation of his book, as well as a digital humanities project related to the 1897 Russian Empire Census and Jewish demography. He is also interested in Gaming Studies.
Former Visiting Scholars
2026
Dr. Andriy Kohut - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2025-2026)
Dr. Chuqiao Li - Visiting Professor (2026)
2025
Dr. Hu Sang - Visiting Professor (2025)
Dr. Yang Yang - Visiting Professor (2025)
2024
Dr. Claire F. Fox - Fulbright Canada Research Chair in the Arts and Humanities (2024)
Wenjiao Li - Academic Visitor (2024)
Dr. Timur Mukhamatulin - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor (2024-2025)
Dr. Xingang Qi - Visiting Professor (2024-2025)
Dr. Yong Qin - Visiting Professor (2024)
2023
Dr. Yolanda Natalia Alvarez Gomez - Academic Visitor (2023)
Hislla S. M. Ramalho - Academic Visitor (2023-2024)
2022
Dr. Alex Averbuch - Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)
Dr. Magdalena Kaltseis - Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)
Dr. Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle - Fulbright Scholar (2022)
2021
Dr. Maxime Bock - Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2022)
Dr. Bettina Egger - Austrian Visiting Professor (2021-2023)
2020
Dr. Florian Mundhenke - DAAD Visiting Associate Professor (2020-2023)
2019
Dr. Maria Mayerchyk - Huculak Research Felow (2019-2020)
Dr. Iryna Skubii - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2019-2020)
Dr. Wolfgang Stadler - University of Innsbruck (Austria) - September 2019
Dr. Yanyu Zeng - Hunan Normal University, China - November 2019
Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez - Visiting Professor (October 2019-March 2020)
2018
Dr. Tatiana Saburova - Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professorship (2018-2019)
Anna Seidel - DAAD German Academic Exchange Service research; Graduate Academy of TU Dresden
Marianna Novosolova - DAAD German Academic Exchange Service/ research
Dr. Paulo Andrade - Brazilian Visiting Scholar