Bradley Gorski

Email: bag22@georgetown.edu

Bradley Gorski is assistant professor of Slavic Languages with a special focus on late- and post-Soviet literature and culture. He teaches a range of courses on 20th and 21st-century Russia, including Russian language, literatures of the Soviet and post-Soviet peripheries, and writing seminars on topics such as violence, death, and cultural memory.

He has published academic work on post-Soviet bestsellers, late-Soviet hipsters, and medieval festivals and conservative aesthetics in today’s Russia. His writing and criticism on contemporary Russian literature and culture has appeared in World Literature Today, Public Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and other publications.

He is the author of Cultural Capitalism: Literature and Success after Socialism , which examines the changing technologies of literary creation, criticism, and consumption in post-Soviet Russia, and co-editor with Philip Tuxbury-Gleissner of Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture after 1917 . He is also a core researcher on "The Post-Soviet Public Sphere ," a digital archive of the 1990s, supported by an NEH grant.

Professor Gorski holds a B.A. from Georgetown University (2007). After completing post-graduate work at St. Petersburg State University (2008), he received his M.A. (2012) and Ph.D. (2018) from Columbia University.