Dominick Lawton

Dominick Lawton is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Stanford University. He specializes in the literature, cultural history, and intellectual history of Russia and the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the 20th century. His research explores material culture, socialist domestic space, and experimental literary forms.

• PhD, University of California, Berkeley (2022)
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley (2016)
• B.A., Yale University (2013)

His current projects include a book on material objects during the Russian Revolution and a study of domestic space transformations in Russia and the Balkans. His work has been supported by grants from the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and the Townsend Center for the Humanities.

Recent publications and in-progress works analyze topics such as Mikhail Bulgakov's communal housing, Comintern aesthetics, and dialectics in Russian formalism. These contributions span journals like Slavic and East European Journal and edited volumes on material culture and global literary theory.

Lawton co-teaches courses, including 'Dissent and Protest in Post-Soviet Spaces,' and leads initiatives like the Slavic Digital Humanities Collaborative Project. He directs undergraduate studies for his department and maintains office hours at Building 240, Room 107.