Sofya Khagi

Sofya Khagi is a Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is affiliated with the Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies (CREES), the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, and the International Institute. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century Russian poetry, Romanticism, contemporary Russian literature and culture, Baltic literatures and cultures, and European intellectual history.

Dr. Khagi holds the following academic credentials:

• B.A., English Language and Literature, University of Rochester, 1996
• M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 1999
• Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, Brown University, 2006

Her research explores the intersections of Romanticism and Russian poetry, contemporary literary movements in Russia, and the cultural dynamics of Baltic nations. She has authored notable works including “Silence and the Rest: Verbal Skepticism in Russian Poetry” and “Pelevin and Unfreedom: Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics”, which analyze post-Soviet literature and its socio-political contexts. She organized a 2018 forum on Victor Pelevin’s work and has written on posthumanism in Russian literature.

Scientific Awards: None explicitly listed.

Dr. Khagi has advised several graduate students and has been involved in organizing academic forums, such as a 2018 conference on Victor Pelevin’s work. Details on grants are not provided in the source texts.