Degrees:
Ph.D., Northwestern Univ.
B.A., Univ. of Michigan
Boris Litvin received his PhD in political science at Northwestern University in 2019. His research and teaching interests are in political theory, focusing especially on the place of spectators and spectatorship in democratic life. Boris’s scholarly publications have appeared in the American Political Science Review, the European Journal of Political Theory and the Review of Politics, among other outlets. His book manuscript, You the People: Political Theory and the Construction of Popular Audiences, investigates how political thinkers across intellectual history adapt emerging literary genres such as plays and novels in their efforts to invoke “the people.”
Because Boris’s teaching usually centers on the history of political thought, his courses seek to impart a sense of urgency when approaching old and foreign texts. To that end, Boris often challenges students to translate abstract concepts into terms that speak to current-day social and political challenges. |