Professor Andrew Kahn FBA

18th-century literature and thought in Russia and Europe; comparative Enlightenment historiography; Russian poetry (Pushkin, Mandelstam, Brodsky) and its intellectual, political, and cultural contexts; practice of literary history

Elected 2019

Current post

Professor of Russian Literature, University of Oxford; Fellow and Tutor, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Past appointments

ENS-Paris/ITEM (CNRS), LabexTransferS Visiting Professor

2018 -

Columbia University Visiting Professor

2009 -

University of Oxford Reader in Russian Literature

2008 -

University of California, Berkeley University Lecturer in Russian; Visiting Associate Professor

2003 -

How did Catherine the Great’s reign shape Imperial Russian history?

30 Jul 2020 Professor Andrew Kahn FBA

Professor Andrew Kahn FBA explores the ways that Catherine the Great impacted Imperial Russian history.

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