Dr. Lilia Schürcks

Biography

Lilia Schürcks completed her Ph.D. in General Linguistics at the Research School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She also attained her Habilitation in Slavic Studies at the University of Potsdam, which qualifies her for a professorship. Her research interests focus on diversity, identity, cultural awareness, discourse analysis, and ethnic issues. Currently, she teaches Gender Diversity Management and Intercultural Competence at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Munich. Lilia has held visiting professorship roles at the University of Graz in Austria and the University of Kansas in the USA. She has had the unique opportunity to pursue research and teach at several universities, including the University of Tromsø in Norway, the University of Chicago, Indiana University Bloomington, the University of Brno Masaryk in the Czech Republic, and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Her publications primarily explore topics related to identity, discourse, and ethnic issues, notably the identities of the Pomaks in the Balkan region. Lilia is also an author, editor, and reviewer for various publishers, including Peter Lang, Mouton de Gruyter, and Cambridge University Press; one of her recent co-edited publications is "Minimalism Radicalizing Interfaces" (2014).

Research Interests