Galin Tikhanov

Galin Tihanov is a Bulgarian literary scholar and academic specialising in comparative literature, intellectual history and literary theory. He is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, where he has also served as dean for research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Career

Tihanov was an assistant professor of Bulgarian literature at Sofia University from 1992 to 1993. From 1997 to 2000, he was a junior research fellow in Russian and German intellectual history at Merton College, Oxford. He was a founding co-director of the university's Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures

In 2011, Tihanov joined Queen Mary University of London as the first holder of the George Steiner Professorship of Comparative Literature. He became dean for research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2024 and serves as an ex officio member of the university senate. Tihanov has also taught at the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University.

Honors Tihanov was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2012. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021.