Svetlana Boym

Ph.D., Harvard, 1988, M.A., Boston University, 1983
Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature
Faculty Associate and Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Slavic Department, Harvard University
Barker Center 311
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 496-4617
boym@fas.harvard.edu
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Research Interests
20th-century Russian literature (poetry, essay, autobiographical fiction), film and contemporary art, cultural studies, comparative literature, literature of exile, literary theory, Soviet and post-Soviet culture, East-European expatriate writers, study of memory ands nostalgia, political and artistic freedom.

Current Projects
Working on cross-cultural approaches to questions of freedom and liberty.

Selected Publications
The Future of Nostalgia (New York: Basic Books, 2001)

Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994)

Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991)