Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous
Elected 2023
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices
Russian, Slavonic and Eastern European Languages and Literatures Eastern Europe including Russia Russia
19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan
