Galin Tihanov - Bibliography #

Galin Tihanov (MA, PhD, Sofia; MA, DPhil, Oxon.)(b. 1964) holds the George Steiner Chair of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously Professor of Comparative Literature and Intellectual History and founding co-director of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester.

His most recent research has been on cosmopolitanism, exile, and transnationalism. His publications include three books and eight (co)edited volumes, as well as over a hundred articles on German, Russian, French, and Central-European intellectual and cultural history and on cultural and literary theory. Some of his work has been translated into Bulgarian, Danish, French, German, Hungarian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Slovene. Tihanov is winner, with Evgeny Dobrenko, of the Efim Etkind Prize for Best Book on Russian Culture (2012), awarded for their co-edited A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism: The Soviet Age and Beyond (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011).

He is Honorary President of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory and elected member of Academia Europaea. He sits on the editorial/advisory boards of several journals (Arcadia; Bakhtiniana: Revista de Estudos do Discurso; Comparative Critical Studies; Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies; Primerjalna književnost; Slavonica; Vestnik Tiumenskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta; Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch) and publication series (Brill Balkan Studies, Brill, The Netherlands; The Real Twentieth Century, Academic Studies Press, USA; Language and Literature Series, Mercado de Letras, Brazil; Durham Modern Languages Series, Manchester UP, United Kingdom; New Comparative Criticism, Peter Lang, Switzerland/Germany/US). Tihanov has held visiting professorships at Yale University and St. Gallen University and research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Collegium Budapest; he has also given lecture courses at the University of Sao Paolo and the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP). He is a member of the Starting Grants Evaluation Panel of the European Research Council (ERC), of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia), and of the International University Forum for Curriculum Reform. He served on the sub-panel “European Studies” for the UK RAE (2008) and as an international panel member on the Romanian RAE (2011) and has evaluated grant proposals for the European Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, The British Academy, AHRC, The Newton Trust, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Minerva Foundation, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

He is currently completing books on the uses of the Romantic tradition in twentieth-century European and American culture and on Russian literary and cultural theory between the World Wars.