Ksenia Robbe is a senior lecturer in European culture and literature (Russian) at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. She works at the intersections of the postcolonial and the postsocialist, and memory and time studies. She is the author of Conversations of Motherhood: South African Women’s Writing Across Traditions (University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2015) and editor of Remembering Transitions: Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media (De Gruyter, 2023) as well as co-editor of Post-Soviet Nostalgia: Confronting the Empire’s Legacies (Routledge, 2019) and (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique (Palgrave, 2021). She is currently leading the collaborative project ‘Reconstituting Publics through Remembering Transitions’ supported by the NETIAS grant