Michal Oklot
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages:
Slavic Languages
Phone: +1 401 863 3972
Michal_Oklot@brown.edu
Michal Oklot works in Russian and Polish literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries, especially Gogol and his continuators. He has also particular interests in Slavic history of ideas, Central European Modernism, and literary theory.
Biography
Michal Oklot holds his M. A. from University in Warsaw (Poland) -- where he also taught at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology -- and his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Northwestern University. Prior to coming to Brown he taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison and American University in Cairo. He has taught courses on Russian, Polish, and English literatures from the early modern period through the twentieth-century. His scholarly interests include Nikolai Gogol and his twentieth century continuators, Russian and Polish modernism, comparative Slavic history of ideas, especially Neoplatonic currents in Slavic thought, literary theory. He has published articles on Schulz, Gombrowicz, Wittlin, Vincenz, and others. His book, Phantasms of Matter in Gogol (and Gombrowicz), is forthcoming with Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.
Degrees
PhD Northwestern University
