Dr. Andrew Kahn

Biography

Andrew Kahn is a Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow Tutor at St Edmund Hall. He has an M.A. from Harvard and a D.Phil. His academic career has included visiting professorships at prestigious institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University. Kahn's research interests focus on the Russian Enlightenment and its comparative European contexts, as well as the works of notable Russian authors including Alexander Pushkin. He has published extensively on the subject, contributing to collections and writing monographs, including on Pushkin's narrative poetry. His scholarship also explores themes of poetry and its aesthetic and political underpinnings in Russian history. Kahn has been actively involved in various research networks, most notably leading the Enlightenment Correspondences initiative. His publications include a major co-authored history of Russian literature and translations of key Russian texts. He continues to produce ambitious research on the reciprocal influences of Russian literature and European Enlightenment ideals.

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