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Benjamin Paloff

Name: Benjamin Paloff

Title(s):

  • Assistant Professor; Slavic Languages & Literatures
  • Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature
  • Post-doctoral Scholar, Michigan Society of Fellows

Contact Information: paloff@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/facstaff

International Institute Affiliation(s):

  • CREES
  • CES-EUC
  • WCED

Department Affiliation(s):

  • Slavic Languages & Literatures
  • Comparative Literature

Education Background: B.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1999; M.F.A., Creative Writing/Poetry, 2001; M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2002; Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 2007

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

  • Russian and East European Studies
  • European Union Studies

Related Countries:

  • Poland
  • Russia
  • Czech Republic

Research/Teaching Specialization: Twentieth-century Russian, Polish, and Czech poetry and literary relations; interwar literature

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Russian Literature in Critical Contexts, Romanticism to Glasnost, Russian History and Literature from 1700, Twentieth-century Russian Literature and Critical Theory