Galin Tihanov
Galin Tihanov, MA, PhD (Sofia); MA, DPhil (Oxon.)
Galin Tihanov is Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History and Founding Co-Director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) at The University of Manchester. He holds doctorates from Sofia University (1996) and Oxford University (1998). He is Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory and member of the Editorial Committee of Manchester University Press and of the Editorial/Advisory Boards of Arcadia, Comparative Critical Studies, Slavonica, Primerjalna knjizevnost, Brill Balkan Studies, and Durham Modern Languages Series. He has held Research Fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the George Soros Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Collegium Budapest, and was Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University (2007). Tihanov has been member of the AHRC Peer Review Collegesince 2004 and was also member of sub-panel 50 (‘European Studies’) for RAE 2008; he has been evaluator of grant applications for the Leverhulme Trust, The British Academy, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Newton Trust, The Minerva Foundation, etc. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia, and is member of the International University Curriculum Reform Group. His forthcoming publications include a book on the uses of the Romantic tradition in twentieth-century German culture and thought; an edited History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism (with E. Dobrenko); and a co-edited collection of scholarly essays, Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism (with D. Adams).
Research Interests:
History of Ideas; Continental and American Literary and Cultural Theory; Cosmopolitanism and its Genealogies; Exile and Migration (esp. 20th century Central- and East-European exile); Comparative Literature and Cultural History, esp. Russian, German, and Central- and East-European Culture and Thought (19th-20th c.) and Russian, Bulgarian and Polish literature in their relation to intellectual and cultural history (19th-20th c.); Mikhail Bakhtin; Olga Freidenberg; The Russian Formalists; Gustav Shpet; Osip Mandelstam; German Post-Romanticism; German Conservatism (esp. 20th century); Goethe; Dilthey; Simmel; Heidegger; Carl Schmitt; Oswald Spengler; Ernst Jünger; Robert Musil; Heiner Müller; Russian and German avant-garde visual culture (1910s-1930s).
Authored and Edited Books:
2011, (co-editor with D. Adams) Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism. Oxford: Legenda.
2011, (co-edited with E. Dobrenko) History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
2010, (co-editor and contributor). Critical Theory in Russia and the West, London and New York: Routledge.
2009, (editor and contributor). Gustav Shpet’s Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory, West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
2007, (co-editor and contributor). A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil, Rochester, NY: Camden House.
2004, (co-editor and contributor). The Bakhtin Cicrle: In the Master’s Absence, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
2000, (co-editor and contributor). Materializing Bakhtin: The Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory, London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, (reprinted 2002).
2000. The Master and the Slave: Lukács, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time, Oxford: Clarendon Press and New York: Oxford University Press. (reprinted 2002; Polish translation 2010)
1998. Zhanrovoto suznanie na kruga “Misul”. Kum kulturnata biografiia na bulgarskiia modernizum [The Consciousness of Genre of the “Misul” Circle. Towards a Cultural Biography of Bulgarian Modernism], Sofia: Academia, Tulkuvaniia.
1994. Tekstove vurkhu bulgarskata literatura sled Vuzrazhdaneto [Interpretations. Texts on Bulgarian Post-Revival Literature], Sofia: Sofia University Press.
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