Maja Soboleva
Philipps University of Marburg, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Maja Soboleva studied chemistry in St. Petersburg and philosophy in St. Petersburg, Erlangen and Marburg. She received a doctor’s degree in chemistry in 1992, a doctor’s degree in philosophy in 2000, and habilitated in philosophy 2005. Since 2004 she was a lecturer, research associate and private lecturer (Privat-Dozentin) at Philipps-University of Marburg (Germany). In 2008/09 she was a Mildred Miller Fort Visiting Scholar (full professor) in European Studies at Columbus State University (Georgia, USA). In 2013 and 2017 she has won a visiting fellowship award in Russian and Eastern European studies from Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki (Finland). From 2014-2015, she was a full professor of philosophy at Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (Austria). In 2016 she was a visiting professor at the University of Katowice and at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev. From 2019-2021, she was the leader and principal investigator of the project “Myth in the Structure of Human Mind and Hermeneutics of Myth” within Lise-Meitner-Program of FWF at the Alpen-Adria University (Klagenfurt, Austria) and the leader of the collective research project “A Man in His Own Time: Problematization of Temporality in European Intellectual Space in the 1900-1930s” at Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russia). Now she is an extra-ordinary professor at the Philipps-University of Marburg.
Her areas of specialization are epistemology, hermeneutics, philosophy of language, and history of philosophy, in particular German and Russian philosophy.