Thomas Keenan holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University, a Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute, and Masters of Arts in Russian Literature and Italian Literature from University of Toronto and Middlebury College. Research interests include Russian literature; Russian, East European, and Soviet political, intellectual, and cultural history; publishing and mass communication in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union; and continuities between medieval and modernist visual and verbal culture.