Dr. Daisuke Adachi

Daisuke ADACHI is Associate Professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University (Japan). His research is broadly concerned with reinterpreting and rewriting the history of representation in 19th-century Russian literature—rethinking the literature as media, especially in terms of language, image, body, and technical conditions. His work ranges from the poetics of Gogol and media of his time to Russian romantic irony, Karamzin’s geo-cultural concept of translation, and Soviet theories of piano playing. Since 2018 he has served as a member of the editorial committee of Acta Slavica Iapaonica, currently co-editing (with Evgeny Dobrenko) its special issue. He is currently co-working with other panelists on a research project named “A Comprehensive Study on the Melodramatic Imagination in Russian and Former Soviet Culture.”