Rori Bloom, Ingrid Kleespies, Eric Kligerman, Galina Rylkova, and Gayle Zachmann have been selected to receive the University of Florida Term Professorship award for 2018-2021.
These three-year professorships were created by UF to recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship that is expected to lead to continuing distinction in their field.
The research area of each professor varies:
* Ingrid Kleespies: 18th and 19th-century Russian literature and culture; Romanticism; intellectual history; Russian frontier mythologies; the Soviet avant-garde.
* Rori Bloom: theories and histories of authorship, the libertine novel, and the rococo aesthetic
* Eric Kligerman: 20th-century German literature and theory, 19th and 20th-century continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, Holocaust studies, comparative literature (German, English, and American), visual studies.
* Galina Rylkova: Russian and European Modernism; Anton Chekhov; Memory and Cultural Studies
* Gayle Zachmann: Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century French; Literature, critical theory, literature and the visual arts, photography