Yasha Klots

Prof. Klots received his Ph.D. in Russian literature from Yale University in 2011. Before joining Hunter in 2016, he taught at GA Tech, Williams College, and Yale. He was also a Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen (Germany). His research interests include book history, Russian and East European émigré literature and culture, urbanism and literary representation of cityscapes, contemporary Russian poetry, linguistic anthropology, bilingualism and translation, and Gulag narratives (particularly Varlam Shalamov).