Svitlana Kot is a visiting postdoctoral scholar at Saarland University and a member of the UniGR Center for Border Studies. She is also a senior lecturer at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University (Ukraine). Her research focuses on Border Studies, (Native) American Literature, and Digital Cultural Studies. She holds a PhD in Philology (American Literature) and has been the recipient of several international fellowships, including the Volkswagen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022–2023) and the Philipp Schwartz Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2024–2026). Her current projects explore border reconfigurations, refugee writing and child migrant representations in graphic novels, and digital war documentation in Ukraine.
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