Daria Ganzenko

PhD project

Subproject of the joint project "Adjustment and Radicalisation. Dynamics in Popular Culture(s) in Pre-War Eastern Europe". Headed by the ZfL and in cooperation with the GWZO, the ZFF, and the Professorship for Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies (with a focus on Polish Studies) at the University of Potsdam.

Through analysis of comic routines and performances of the most influential Soviet and post-Soviet Russian comedians, the PhD project aims to trace the continuity and breaks in the evolution of Russian language verbal comedy over the past 80 years.