Ilya Kliger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, and specializes in 19th-century Russian and French novel, theory of the novel, literary theory, and the relationship between philosophy and literature. He is the author of The Narrative Shape of Truth: Veridiction in Modern European Literature (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011). He is currently working on a book project, provisionally titled Making the State Visible: The Poetics and Politics of Russian Realism.
