Andrew Kahn

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Andrew Kahn, a scholar of Russian literature, was born and raised in New York and earned degrees from Amherst College, Harvard University, and the University of Oxford.

Kahn is the author of Mandelstam’s Worlds: Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2012). He has also coauthored, edited, and translated numerous books of literary scholarship, including All the World on a Page: A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry (Princeton University Press, 2025), coauthored with Mark Lipovetsky, and A History of Russian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2018), coauthored with Lipovetsky, Stephanie Sandler, and Irina Reyfman. 

Kahn has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, l’École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a professor of Russian literature at the University of Oxford and a tutorial fellow in St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy.