Faculty
LIVERS, KEITH
Associate Professor of Russian in Dept. of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Email: kalivers@mail.utexas.edu
Education:
Graduate work at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Languages:
Russian, German, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Spanish
Research Interests:
Periods: 20th century, Modernism, Postmodernism, Contemporary Russian cinema, Dostoevsky
Current research: Representation(s) of Moscow in 21st century, contemporary Russian prose, nostalgia
Recent Publications:
"Andrei Platonov as Literary Critic: Embodying the New Man," Russian Literature, Russian Literature LXIII (2008) (II/III/IV)
"'Empty Is My Native Land': The Problem of the Absent Center in Aleksandr Zel'dovich's Moscow," The Russian Review, vol. 64, no. 3, July 2005
"Bugs in the Body Politic: Viktor Pelevin's Life of Insects," in Slavic and East European Journal, vol. 46, no. 1 (Spring 2003)>: 1–28