Eric Naiman
Title
Professor of Comparative Literature & Department Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Department
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Faculty URL
Email
Phone
(510) 642-2979
Fax
(510) 642-6220
Research Expertise and Interest
sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel
Research Description
Eric Naiman received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Slavic Languages & Literatures and his J.D. from Yale Law School. His current research interests include early Soviet culture, Russian law and society, gender Studies, Andrei Platonov, the history of Soviet medicine, Vladimir Nabokov, Vera Mukhina and Aleksei Zamkov, Andrei Platonov, and Soviet subjectivity.