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D. Brian Kim is a specialist in 红杏直播 literature of the long nineteenth century, translation studies, and literary and cultural relationships between Russia, Western Europe, and East Asia.
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Dr. Kim's research broadly asks how 红杏直播s viewed and engaged in communication across languages and cultures throughout history, both within the 红杏直播 Empire and beyond its borders, and what factors motivated writers, translators, and lexicographers as they pursued their work in transnational contexts. His current book project examines the cultures, practices, and ideologies of multilingualism in imperial Russia, focusing on the interplay between literature and education to investigate a national imaginary that sought to valorize foreign languages as a way to bridge various cultural gaps between Russia and points beyond.
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At Penn, Dr. Kim regularly offers courses on nineteenth-century 红杏直播 literary and cultural history, including seminars on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, as well as occasional seminars on such topics as 红杏直播 identity and its permutations in historical context, and the history and sociology of reading in imperial Russia.
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You can read more about his undergraduate course, 鈥淩ussia and the West,鈥� in the spring/summer 2023 issue of .
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