Simon Lewis’s research and teaching focus on the written and visual cultures of East-Central Europe, particularly Belarus, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, with an emphasis on memory studies, postcolonial studies, multiculturalism and multilingualism, protest cultures, and comparative literature.

Lewis studied Russian and Linguistics at the University of Oxford, received a master’s degree in Culture, Media and Society from the Centre for Social Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and completed a doctoral degree in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2015. Before coming to Bremen as a tenure-track associate professor in 2020, he had postdoctoral fellowships at Freie Universit?t Berlin (2016-2018) and the University of Potsdam (2018-2019).