Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath

Professor and chair in Slavonic languages with special research interest in Slavonic medieval philology, the Russian(s) of Swedish Ingria, and pre-modern Slavic-Jewish cultural contacts.

Born 1969, Raus parish, province of Scania. PhD (2002, Lund University), Reader (docent) in Slavonic languages (2008, Lund University). Academy research fellow in Slavonic languages, Stockholm University/Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, 2008–14; research fellow in Slavonic languages, Stockholm University/Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Memorial Foundation, 2015–21. Professor in Slavonic languages, Uppsala University, since 2022. Main research interests: Slavonic (Old East Slavonic, Middle Russian, Old and Middle Church Slavonic) medieval philology, Slavonic manuscripts in Sweden, 1600-century Russian (esp. in Ingria and adjacent areas), the history of Swedish Ingria, pre-modern and early modern Swedish–Russian and Slavic–Jewish cultural contacts.

External examiner of doctoral thesis, Vilnius University; member of the examining committee for sex doctoral theses at Lund and Stockholm University; external assessor for senior lecturership, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; external assessor for professorship, Helsinki University. Member of the editorial council of Slavica Bergensia; member of the editorial council of Nordic and Baltic Studies Review (Petrozavodsk) [until spring 2022]; editor-in-chief of Studia Slavica Upsaliensia.

Pianist.