My research explores the poetics and the politics of global literary and cultural entanglements, focusing critical approaches to translation theory, semiotics, Marxist aesthetics and anti-colonial theory, which traverse the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Leah Feldman (Yiddish: לאה פֿעלדמאן; September 1898 – 3 January 1993), also known as Leah Downes, was an Odesa-born anarchist garment worker who for most of her adult life was based in London, England. [1]

My research explores the poetics and the politics of global literary and cultural entanglements, focusing critical approaches to translation theory, semiotics, Marxist aesthetics and decolonial theory, which traverse the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Leah Feldman's research explores the poetics and the politics of global literary and cultural entanglements, focusing critical approaches to translation theory, semiotics, Marxist aesthetics and postcolonial theory, which traverse the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Leah Feldman Research Interests: Translation Theory, Poetics, Marxist Aesthetics, Orientalism and Secular Criticism, Anticolonial theory, Russophone and Turkic Literatures, Theater, Film of Caucasus and Central Asia

Leah Feldman’s research focuses on empire, nationalism, and critical approaches to ethnicity, gender and sexuality from the vantage point of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

My research explores the poetics and the politics of global literary and cultural entanglements, focusing critical approaches to translation theory, semiotics, Marxist aesthetics and anti-colonial theory, which traverse the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Leah Feldman is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Comparative Literature and Theater and Performance Studies. Her research explores ethno-nationalism, empire, anticolonial thought, queer embodiment, and affect through the formation and collapse of the Soviet empire from the vantage of the Caucasus and ...

Leah Feldman, Director of Graduate Studies Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature

Leah Feldman, University of Chicago: 310 Followers, 246 Following, 11 Research papers. Research interests: Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, and…