Research Bio
Edward Tyerman's research interests focus on cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, within the wider historical contexts of socialist internationalism and comparative postsocialisms. His first book, Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture (Columbia University Press, 2021), rediscovers the intensive engagement with China in 1920s Soviet culture as a key experiment in the imagining of socialist internationalism. His current research explores Sino-Soviet cultural collaboration in the 1950s and the role of the Russia-China relationship in the social imaginary of the postsocialist period.
Research Expertise and Interest
cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics
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Teaching
Postwar Russian Literature (1945-1991) [SLAVIC 246B]
Directed Research [SLAVIC 299]
Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics [SLAVIC 310]
Twentieth-Century Russian Literature [SLAVIC 46]
Individual Study for Master's Students [SLAVIC 601]
Individual Study for Doctoral Students [SLAVIC 602]
Russia and Asia [EALANG C134]
Advanced Readings in Russian, East European and Eurasian Languages [SLAVIC 100L]
Research in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies [SLAVIC 100R]
Proseminar: Aims and Methods of Literary Scholarship [SLAVIC 281]
Special Study for Graduate Students [SLAVIC 298]
Directed Research [SLAVIC 299]
Individual Study for Doctoral Students [SLAVIC 602]
Russia and Asia [SLAVIC C134N]
Directed Research [SLAVIC 299]
Internship in the Teaching of Literature/Linguistics [SLAVIC 310]
Individual Study for Master's Students [SLAVIC 601]
Individual Study for Doctoral Students [SLAVIC 602]