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The aim of this volume is to reinvent Albanian Studies and to transform Albanology, traditionally performed as a subdiscipline of historical linguistics, into interdisciplinary Albanian Studies. The thirteen contributions from early career investigators from Albania, Kosovo and Western Europe cover the field of literature, linguistics and cultural studies. They address the interface of language contact, sociolinguistics, digital humanities, comparative literature and of gender, minority, migration and memory studies. By using discourse analysis, popular culture, visual arts and other recent approaches, the volume shows the dynamics of Albanian culture in both Albanian-speaking countries today which makes it a fascinating case study in the context of Balkan area studies.
About the author
Christian Voss has been Head of the Department for South Slavic Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2006. He earned his PhD in 1996 on Church Slavonic in the Balkans and his habilitation in 2004 on Slavic minorities in Greece.
Lumnije Jusufi is a Senior researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she completed her habilitation in Southeast European Studies with a focus on Albanology in June 2022. She holds a PhD from LMU Munich.
Evelyn Reuter studied Ethnology, Protestant Theology and Southeast European Studies and earned her doctorate at the interface of Southeast European and Religious Studies in Jena in 2019. She has taught classes at the Universities of Jena, Bremen and HU Berlin.
