Jonathan Platt

Assistant Professor

PhD, Columbia University, 2008
412-624-5714
jbplatt@pitt.edu

Research Interests

Alexander Pushkin's works and reception, Romanticism and Post-Romanticism, Stalinist culture, intertextual poetics, conceptual aesthetics, discourses of modernity.

Courses Regularly Taught

Pushkin, Lermontov, and the Ethics of Appropriation; Desire, Power, Fate: The Nineteenth-Century Literary Tradition (Fourth-Year Russian); Bakhtin's Aesthetics; Man and Superman

Representative Publications

• “Pushkin and Odoevsky in 1833” (forthcoming).
• “The Poetics of Dry Transgression in Pushkin's Necro-Erotic Verse.” (Forthcoming in a volume on taboo topics in Pushkin studies, ed. Alyssa Gillespie.)
• “Обыкновенная история одного читателя 'Медного всадника'". (Forthcoming in Новое литературное обозрение.)
• “From Foul Utopia to Critical Mess: End of Modernity in Russian and American Art,” Ulbandus 11 (2008).
• “Pushkin Now and Then: Images of Temporal Paradox in the 1937 Jubilee,” Russian Review 67.4 (October 2008).
• “Отвергнутые приглашения к каменным объятиям: Пушкин-Бродский-Жолковский,” Новое литературное обозрение 67 (2004).
• Empire, Union, Center, Satellite: The Place of Post-Colonial Theory in Slavic/Central and Eastern European/(Post-)Soviet Studies. Special issue of Ulbandus 7 (2003), ed.