Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath

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Professor and chair in Slavonic languages with special research interest in Slavonic medieval philology, the Russian(s) of Swedish Ingria, and pre-modern Slavic-Jewish cultural contacts.

Biography

Born 1969, Raus parish, province of Scania. PhD (2002, Lund University), Reader (docent) in Slavonic languages (2008, Lund University). Academy research fellow in Slavonic languages, Stockholm University/Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, 2008–14; research fellow in Slavonic languages, Stockholm University/Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Foundation, 2015–21. Professor in Slavonic languages, Uppsala University, since 2022. Main research interests: Slavonic (Old East Slavonic, Middle Russian, Old and Middle Church Slavonic) medieval philology, Slavonic manuscripts in Sweden, 1600-century Russian (esp. in Ingria and adjacent areas), the history of Swedish Ingria, pre-modern and early modern Swedish–Russian and Slavic–Jewish cultural contacts.

External examiner of doctoral thesis, Vilnius University; member of the examining committee for seven doctoral theses at Lund and Stockholm University; external assessor for senior lecturership, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; external assessor for professorship, Helsinki University. Member of the editorial council of Slavica Bergensia; member of the editorial council of Nordic and Baltic Studies Review (Petrozavodsk) [until spring 2022]; editor-in-chief of Studia Slavica Upsaliensia.

Pianist.