Liam Phillips

Liam Phillips

Research Interests

Russian literature and culture of the 19th and early 20th century. Sentimentalism, the travelogue, readership, narrative theory, semiotics, structuralism.

Education

B.A. University of Pennsylvania, Russian and East European Studies, Comparative Literature, 2024

Thesis: "Form and Figure: Mikhail Kuzmin's Stroinost' in Wings."

Selected conference presentations

“The Function of Sentimentalism in Nikolai Karamzin’s Prose: Letters of a Russian Traveler (1789-1790) and ‘Poor Liza’ (1792).” REEESNe 2023 Undergraduate Conference and Slavic Bazaar, University of Pennsylvania

Languages

English
Russian