DFG-Project Jüdisches Film Heritage Post-doc Position

Dr. Irine Beridze

Dr. Irine Beridze is a scholar in literary and cultural studies – also with a focus on film studies. She studied German studies, Modern German Literature and Slavic Studies in Tbilisi, Potsdam and Berlin and completed her PhD-project at the Free University of Berlin in 2024 on the topic of “Transfer processes of memory in contemporary German-language literature by post-Soviet authors”. Between 2020 and 2024, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Culture at the Institute for Eastern European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Her main areas of research are: migration literature, comics and graphic novels from Eastern Europe, ecology and literature, war documentaries, history of Soviet-Georgian film, Jewish cultures in the South Caucasus and theories of transculturality/transnationality.

Her first book (dissertation) was published in February 2025 in German by transcript Verlag with the title „Neuere Migrationsliteratur. Transkulturelle Poetiken osteuropäischer Gedächtnisse nach 2010“.

More info on the Project  Heritage Journey Films.