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Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, holding positions within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film. He holds a PhD from Sofia University and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on Russian, German, and East/Central European intellectual and cultural history, with particular emphasis on World Literature, cosmopolitanism, and exile. Tihanov has held visiting professorships globally and serves on the Executive Board of Harvard's Institute for World Literature.
Research Interests: His work spans Comparative Literature, Intellectual History (19th–20th centuries), Marxist theory, and the legacies of thinkers like Bakhtin, Shpet, and Kojève. Current projects explore world literature’s non-Western frameworks and the genealogies of cosmopolitan thought.
Awards & Recognition: Elected to the British Academy (2021) and Academia Europaea (2012), he received the 2020 AATSEEL Prize for his book *The Birth and Death of Literary Theory*. He chairs grants panels for the European Research Council and Polish National Science Centre.
Key Contributions: Tihanov’s interdisciplinary approach bridges literary studies with philosophy and political theory, addressing themes of exile, cultural transfer, and the resistance to globalized literary theory. His work critiques Occidentocentric paradigms in World Literature scholarship.
