Craig Brandist

 Craig Brandist is Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History, and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has published widely on aspects on early Soviet literature, philosophy, and cultural theory, and is the author of, inter alia, Carnival Culture and the Soviet Modernist Novel (1996); The Bakhtin Circle: Philosophy, Culture and Politics (2002), and The Dimensions of Hegemony: Language, Culture and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (2015). He is currently completing a volume of archival material about Antonio Gramsci's time in the USSR as well as projects on the early Soviet critique of Eurocentrism and on the continuities between Stalinism and neoliberalism.