Kevin M. F. Platt
Research Interests:
Representation of history, history and memory, Russian poetry and poetics, global Russian culture. Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths.
Representation of history, history and memory, Russian poetry and poetics, global Russian culture. Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths.
Classical Indian literature and aesthetics, with a special focus on Sanskrit poetry and poetics; the regional cultures of South Asia; Indian philosophy; myth; critical theory and translation studies. Text to Tradition: The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia (Columbia University Press, 2014).
Politics and culture in the Russian and Soviet empires, modern Jewish history, history of human rights. Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia.
Greek tragedy, Homeric poetry, gender studies, twentieth-century reception of the Classics; Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey.
Ann Matter teaches and studies the history of Christianity in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, with special attention to the history of spirituality and devotion, the interpretation of the Bible, and the roles of women. Her focus is on the Latin tradition, and on textual studies and editing, especially in Latin and Italian.
Medieval Islam; Islamic Law.Early Islamic Legal Theory: the Risala of Muhammad Ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (E. J. Brill, 2007); editor (with D. Stewart and S. Toorawa) of Law and Education in Medieval Islam: Studies in Memory of George Makdisi(E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Trust, 2005) and (with D. Stewart) of Essays in Arabic Literary Biography II: 1350-1850 (Harrasowitz, 2009).
Interests
Eighteenth-century British literature, contemporary South Asian writing in English, and literary and critical theory.