Alexander Meienberger

Dr.

Execute Director GCE-HSG

Büro 52-7140
Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 6/8
9000 St. Gallen

Publications

Main Focuses

Nineteenth-, twentieth-centuries and contemporary Russian literature

Medical Humanities

Fields of research

Eastern European studies

Literary and cultural studies

Medicine and Literature

Further fields of research

Literature and Cultural Studies

Philosophy

Biomedical Ethics

Education

2018 - 2023 Ph.D. in Organization Studies and Cultural Theory at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2017 Master of Arts (M.A.) (Eastern Europe: History and Media)
2016 four-month research stay at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie, France
2014 - 2017 Master studies of Eastern European history and media at the University of Konstanz
2014 Specialist Diploma (International Affairs )
2013 four-month exchange semester at the University of Konstanz, Germany
2009 - 2014 Diploma Degree in International Affairs at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) Moscow, Russia

Professional Career

since 2023 Executive director of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europa (GCE-HSG)
since 2022 Assistant to the Vice-Rector for External Relations
since 2021 Program manager Public Lectures Program HSG Events Office
since 2019 Program manager Early Career Programme
2019 - 2022 Assistant at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG)
2011 - 2014 Internship in Marketing and Communications Department at Bosch Security Systems, Moscow
2010 - 2010 Internship in the Press Department in the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce, Moscow

Teaching Activities

From Criminals to Oligarchs: Power, Morality, and Identity in Russian Culture (University of St. Gallen FS 2026)
“Putin kaputt” – Protest Dynamics in Eastern Europe (University of St. Gallen FS 2025)
Russia's special path? Empire, invasion, isolation (together with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid, University of St. Gallen HS 2023)
Food in the Russian literature (University of Konstanz FS 2023)
"Russkij mir": Ideology and Literature (University of Konstanz HS 2020)
Discourses on peace and war in Russian culture (in cooperation with Dr. Renata von Maydell, University of Konstanz FS 2019)

Projects

2018-2023 Dissertation project "The Foundation "Russkiy mir" as an ideological network".
since 2023 The portrayal of medicine in modern Russian literature.

Affiliations

Talks

Editorial Board

Since 2021, Co-Editor of the journal "Euxeinos"
Since 2023, Co-Editor of the journal "Euxeinos. The Journal of the Swiss Academic Association for East European Studies"