Siarhei Biareishyk

Siarhei Biareishyk is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Russian and East European Studies and Affiliate Faculty in the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory and Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Having received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University, he has spent time at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin. His first book is titled Novalis, Spinoza, and the Limits of Romantic Materialism (forthcoming with Northwestern UP 2026). Siarhei works at the intersection of continental philosophy and literary theory, and his current projects concern: the dialogues between Soviet and Western Marxisms, in particular between Louis Althusser and Evald Ilyenkov, and their respective circles; debates on formalism and morphology in modernity, linked to various notions of life and the living; and the reconstruction of the Marx-Spinoza philosophical and intellectual traditions.

At Penn, Siarhei has taught courses in German literature and philosophy, Soviet literature, film, and cultural history, Marx and Marxisms, and structuralism and literary theory; on the graduate level, he has offered seminars on Marx and Spinoza, morphology and formalism, and various dialogues in Marxist and materialist traditions.