Spring 2013 Courses
RUSS187 Portraits of Soviet Society
RUSS528 From Late-Soviet to Non-Soviet Literature and Culture
(co-taught with Dr. Rossen Djagalov)
Fall 2013 Courses
RUSS136 Portraits of Russian Society
RUSS195 History as Culture
Biography
Kevin M. F. Platt is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Graduate Chair of the Comparative Literature Program. He works on representations of Russian history, Russian historiography, history and memory in Russia, Russian lyric poetry, and global post-Soviet Russian culture. Platt received his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. from Stanford University and taught at Pomona College before joining the Penn faculty in 2002. He is the author of Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths (Cornell UP, 2011) and History in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution (Stanford, 1997; Russian edition 2006), and the co-editor (with David Brandenberger) of Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda (Wisconsin UP, 2006). He also edited and contributed translations to Modernist Archaist: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam (Whale and Star, 2008) and edited Intimations: Selected Poetry by Anna Akhmatova, translated by James Falen (Whale and Star, 2010). His current projects include a critical historiography of Russia, a study of contemporary Russian culture in Latvia and a number of translation projects.
Member of the Penn Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Group (reees).
Dr. Platt in the Daily Pennsylvanian, December 9, 2012 interview here
Dr. Kevin Platt in Wall Street Journal, As Pussy Riot Trial Continues, Music and the Web Become Tools of Free Expression
Select Publications:
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Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths, Kevin M. F. Platt Cornell University Press, 2011 |
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History
in a Grotesque Key: Russian Literature and the Idea of Revolution,
Kevin M. F. Platt Stanford University Press, 1997 |
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Epic
Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda Edited by Kevin M. F. Platt and David Brandenberger Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005 |
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Modernist
Archaist, Selected Poems by Osip
Mandelstam Edited and with an introduction by Kevin M. F. Platt Translations by Bernard Meares, Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, Eugene Ostashevsky, Kevin M. F. Platt Whale and Star, 2008 |
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Intimations:
Selected Poetry by Anna Akhmatova,
Edited and with an introduction by Kevin M. F. Platt Translation by James E. Falen Whale and Star, 2010 |
Platt, Kevin M. F. (2010) "Allegory's Half-Life: The Specter of a Stalinist Ivan the Terrible in Russia Today," Penn History Review 17:2, Article 2.
Kevin M. F. Platt, “The Post-Soviet is Over: On Reading the Ruins,” Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts 1:1 (May 1, 2009).
Last updated on February 26, 2013
