Dr A.S. Kahn

Andrew Kahn, M.A., D.Phil. (B.A. Amherst, M.A. Harvard)
Reader in Russian, Fellow of St Edmund Hall
Lecturer at Queen's College
Address:  St Edmund Hall, Queens Lane, Oxford, OX1 4AR
Email:   andrew.kahn@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   01865 274163

Research

Andrew Kahn's research interests include travel literature; Enlightenment Russia in its European context, with an emphasis on intellectual history; materialist thought; the rise of the novel; history and theory of translation in Russia (1700-1840); the classical tradition in Russia; Derzhavin's poetry; Pushkin; Pushkin and Romanticism; Romanticism in its comparative context (especially England and France);Russian poetics; poetry of the Silver Age, especially Mandelstam; the work of Joseph Brodsky; theory of intertextuality.

Selected Publications | View all publications

'‘Joseph Brodsky’s ‘The Bust of Tiberius’', Stanford Slavic Studies, 36 (2008), 243-261

Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence (Oxford: OUP, 2008)

With Jenny Mander, editor, '‘The rise of the Russian novel and the problem of romance’, ', In: Remapping the rise of the European novel, SVEC (2007), 185-99

With Andrew Kahn, editor, Cambridge Companion to Pushkin, Cambridge Companions (Cambridge: CUP, 2007)

'\'Blazhenstvo ne v luchakh porfira\':Histoire et Fonction de la Tranquillité (spokojstvie) dans la pensée et la poésie russes du XVIIIe siècle, de Kantemir au sentimentalisme’', Révue des Études Slaves , 4 (2003), 669-688

Translator, N.M. Karamzin, Letters of a Russian Traveller, with an introduction, commentary and essay Karamzin's Discourses of Enlightenment (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2003)

With David Lee Rubin, ed., '\'Russian Rewritings of La Fontaine\'s Les Amours de Psyché in the Eighteenth Century\'', EMF: Special volume: Strategic Rewriting, 8 (2002), 66-85

'Self and Sensibility in Radishchev's Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu: Dialogism and the Moral Spectator', in: Self and Story, eds. Laura Englestein and Stephanie Sandler (Cornell University Press, 2000)

'Pushkin's Wanderer Fantasies', in: Rereading Russian Poetry, ed. S. Sandler (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), 225-247

Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman (London & Bristol: Duckworth, 1998)

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