About
Daniel W. Pratt serves as Assistant Professor at McGill University, specializing in Central and Eastern European cultural studies with research spanning narratology, aesthetics, world literature, and literary dissent movements across Czech, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, and Austrian contexts.
His academic foundation includes:
- Undergraduate studies at Princeton University
- Two years of immersive experience in the Czech Republic
- PhD completion at the University of Chicago
As a comparativist examining literature's intersection with history and philosophy, Pratt investigates non-narrative temporalities in Central Europe and socialist world literature frameworks. His scholarship addresses dissident punk rock in Czechoslovakia, historical meaning-making in the region, and philosophical connections between Gilles Deleuze and Witold Gombrowicz. Current projects include finalizing the manuscript Against Narrative: Non-Narrative Temporalities in Central Europe and developing research on Bruno Jasieński's internationalist literary contributions.
