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Leonid Livak is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science. He also holds an affiliation with the Centre for Jewish Studies. His research focuses on Russian and transnational modernism, Russian-French intellectual exchanges, and Jewish cultural history in modern Europe.
Education: PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999), MA (Middlebury College, 1998; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996), BA (University of Michigan, 1993).
Research Interests: 19th/20th-century Russian literature, Russian-Jewish cultural history, diaspora studies, comparative literature, and modernist aesthetics. He has authored monographs such as *Portrait d’une traductrice* (2024) and *Histoire culturelle de l’émigration russe en France* (2022), and edited volumes like *Литературный авангард русского Парижа* (2014).
Awards include the 2019 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize and a SSHRC Insight Grant (2019-2024). His teaching focuses on advanced Russian literature courses (e.g., SLA212, SLA345). He supervises PhD/Master’s research in Slavic studies and Jewish cultural history.
Grants include SSHRC funding for projects on Russian émigré contributions to French intellectual life (2005-2008) and the Final Chapter of Russia Abroad (2018-2025). Research collaborations include the Institut d’études avancées de Paris and the Blaise Pascal Chair (2021-2022).
