Fri 25 July 2015
Galin Tihanov: Adventures in "World Literature": Bakhtin and Russian Formalism Revisited

Galin Tihanov is George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature and SLLF Director of Graduate Studies, at Queen Mary, University of London, the leading specialist in the transnational comparative studies of Russian, East, and Central European theory. Tihanov's publications include three books and eight (co)edited volumes, as well as over a hundred articles on German, Russian, French, and Central-European intellectual and cultural history and on cultural and literary theory, among those contributions like The Master and the Slave: Lukács, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time (2000), Materializing Bakhtin: The Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory (2000), The Bakhtin Circle: In the Master's Absence (2004), Critical Theory in Russia and the West (2010), A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond (2011).