ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ and East European Studies
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., New York University
M.A., New York University
B.A., Macalester College
Siarhei Biareishyk is a Senior Lecturer at the ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ & East European Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University. From 2017 to 2019 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin, working in the cluster "World Literature."ÌýHis first book is titledÌýNovalis, Spinoza, and the Materialist Individuations of German RomanticismÌý(forthcoming with Northwestern UP 2026).ÌýAt Penn, Siarhei is working on a new project, "Formalism and the Materialist Tradition: Literature, Politics, Ontology," which traces evolving concepts of form in modernity. By focusing on how debates on form in art and literature are linked to various notions of life and the living, this project poses questions about the relation between literature and ontology.Ìý
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Literary and critical theory, German Romanticism and Idealism, ºìÐÓÖ±²¥ Formalism, Soviet and Western Marxism, materialism and the Spinozist tradition