Prof Ilya Vinitsky

Princeton University

Ilya Vinitsky is Professor of Russian at Princeton University. He visited the Dashkova Centre as a research fellow in June-July 2017. His main fields of expertise are Russian Romanticism and Realism, the history of emotions, nineteenth- century intellectual and spiritual history, and Russian, British, and American cultural ties. His books include Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism (University of Toronto Press, 2009), Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia (Northwestern University Press, 2015) and The Count of Sardinia: Dmitry Khvostov and Russian Culture (Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2016; in Russian).

His research deals with the history of pamphlet wars between Russia and Britain during the Napoleonic Wars and the first years of the Holy Alliance. I am especially interested in the activities of Alexis Eustaphieve, Worontzow’s secretary and agent, his political pamphlets and books published in English in the 1800s and his fierce polemics with Dr. Clarke and "The Edinburgh Review" in the 1810s.