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
Matthew Bell's research interests are European literature and thought of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially German; the history of the human sciences up to 1900; and Goethe.
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