Affiliated Departments & Programs
- Modern Languages & Literatures
- Comparative World Literature
James McGavran, a Kenyon alumnus of the class of 2002, first joined the Kenyon faculty in 2010, teaching for two years as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and then visiting assistant professor of Russian. He then held visiting positions at St. Olaf College, Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania before returning to Kenyon in 2015. He teaches Russian language courses at the introductory and advanced levels and Russian literature, especially poetry, in the original and in translation. McGavran is a winner of Kenyon's Junior Faculty Trustee Teaching Excellence Award (2018).
Areas of Expertise
Twentieth-century Russian poetry, poetic translation, theories of the comic
Education
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