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Ingrid Kleespies

Ph.D University of California, Berkeley
Slavic Studies
Russian Studies
iakl@ufl.edu
352-392-2101 ext. 217

Expertise

Late eighteenth and nineteenth century Russian literature and culture; travel literature; the Soviet avant-garde.

Biography

Ingrid Kleespies is Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Florida and teaches a variety of language and literature courses. She received a B.A. in Slavic Studies from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D in Slavic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. Her areas of interest include Russian Romanticism, eighteenth and nineteenth century Russian intellectual history, and literature of travel and empire more generally. Her current research concerns the intersection of travel (as a literary-cultural phenomenon) and conceptions of Russian national identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is working on a book about the role of imagery of travel – specifically images of wanderers, nomads, and pilgrims – in the construction of Russian national identity in literature of the Romantic period.

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