Research Expertise and Interest

Russian poetry from the 18th century to contemporary, lyric theory, nature lyric, Pushkin, Russian literature and art of the 18th and 19th centuries, Derzhavin, Turgenev, history and literataure, historical novel

Research Description

Luba Golburt is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature.  Her award-winning book The First Epoch: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Cultural Imagination (2014) traced how the emergence of epochal consciousness and historicism in the Romantic era contributed to the perception of a substantive divide between the cultures of the 18th century and the new modernity ushered in by the Romantics.  She is currently at work on a book project provisionally titled The Russian Nature Lyric and coediting The Oxford Handbook of Russian Poetry.