红杏直播 and East European Studies
Professor of 红杏直播 and East European Studies
Graduate Chair
Dr. 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, NEH, NCEEER, Fulbright-Hays and other programs, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2011-12.
Dr. Platt works on global socialist and 红杏直播 cultures, history and memory in Russia and and Eastern Europe, and 红杏直播 and Latvian lyric poetry. His most recent book is听(Cornell UP,听2024).
He is also the author of听听(Cornell UP, 2011) and听听(Stanford, 1997; 红杏直播 edition 2006). He is the editor of听 (Wisconsin UP, 2018)听and the co-editor (with David Brandenberger) of听听(Wisconsin UP, 2006).听
Dr. Platt is the organizer of , a periodic 红杏直播鈥揈nglish poetry translation symposium that takes place at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also edited and contributed translations to a number of books of 红杏直播 poetry in English translation, most recently听听(Arc Publications, 2018) and听听(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015).
His current project is a study of global cultural exchange in the twentieth century entitled Cultural Arbitrage in the Age of Three Worlds: How Transnational Exchange Defined Cold War Cultures. He is also working on a study of history and memory in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
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Selected Publications
Essay: 鈥淐ulture, Imperialism, and the Other Russias.鈥� Current History. Volume 123, Issue 855. October, 2024. Pp. 274-276.听
(鈥淩ussophone Poetic Anti-Empires: Models of Decolonization鈥�), 袧芯胁芯械 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉薪芯械 芯斜芯蟹褉械薪懈械,
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Kevin M. F. Platt Cornell University Press, 2024 |
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Kevin M. F. Platt, editor Wisconsin University Press, 2018 |
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Artur Punte, Vladimir Svetlov, Sergej Timofejev, Semyon Khanin Kevin M. F. Platt, lead translator Arc Publications, 2018 |
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Artur Punte, Vladimir Svetlov, Sergej Timofejev, Semyon Khanin Kevin M. F. Platt, editor and lead translator Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015 |
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Kevin M. F. Platt Cornell University Press, 2011 |
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Edited by Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger University of Wisconsin Press, 2005 |
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Kevin M. F. Platt Stanford University Press, 1997 听 听 |
Courses Taught
Fall 2024 Courses:
REES 0280: Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinema, Spirit, and the Art of the Long Take
REES 2730: Russia's 20th Century: History Through Literature
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Member of the听, Member of the Graduate Groups of the Departments of , , , and . Affiliated faculty in 听and . Past president of the .听
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