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Harsha Ram

Associate Professor
Comparative Literature, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Italian Studies
ram@berkeley.edu
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/harsha-ram

Harsha Ram teaches Russian and comparative European romanticism, symbolism and modernism; the Russian and European avant-garde; Russian poetry; eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Russian and European literature; early Soviet culture; Georgian literature; modern Indian literature; Italian literature; literary and aesthetic theory, comparative poetics, genre theory, and literary history; aesthetics, politics and comparative modernities; world literature; the cultural and political history of Russia, the Caucasus and Eurasia; postcolonial studies; time, space and literature; theories of nationalism, imperialism and cosmopolitanism. His most recent book is The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire (2003); his forthcoming book will be entitled Crossroads Modernity: Aesthetic Modernism and the Russian- Georgian Encounter. (Ph.D. Yale, Comparative Literature).