ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ and East European Studies
Kevin M. F. Platt is Professor of ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Platt received his B.A. from Amherst College (1989) and his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1994) and taught at Pomona College before joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 2002. He has been the recipient of grants from IREX, NCEEER, Fulbright-Hays and other programs, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2011-12. He works on representations of ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ history, ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ historiography, history, and memory in Russia, ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ lyric poetry, and global post-Soviet ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ culture. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ Myths (Cornell UP, 2011) and History in a Grotesque Key: ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ Literature and the Idea of Revolution (Stanford, 1997; ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ edition 2006), and the co-editor (with David Brandenberger) of Epic Revisionism: ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda (Wisconsin UP, 2006). He has also edited and contributed translations to a number of books of ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ poetry in English translation, most recently Hit Parade: The Orbita Group (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015). His current projects include a critical historiography of Russia, a study of contemporary ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ culture in Latvia and an edited volume titled ΊμΠΣΦ±²₯ Culture and Global Situations. He is also a trustee of the European University at St. Petersburg and is currently working on multiple books and articles.