Koshino, Go

My academic discipline is literary studies and cultural history, focused on Russia and other former Soviet republics as my main target of interest. While Russian culture originates in Europe, it incorporates Asian sub-regions in the process of historical development. In this sense, the Soviet Union, the “other” main actor of the Cold war, also appeared a Eurasian empire extending to the East and the West, in which I make much account of a comparative approach for plural areas, based on the politics of memory, migration of people, and cultural translation. Russia must be considered a significant contact zone in both European and Asian cultures.