Ken Hirschkop

Ken Hirschkop is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and the author of several books about Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar.

Publications Hirschkop's books include: Mikhail Bakhtin: An Aesthetic for Democracy (Oxford University Press, 1999), Bakhtin and Cultural Theory (2nd ed., Manchester University Press, 2001, edited with David Shepherd) Benjamin's 'Arcades': An Unguided Tour (Manchester University Press, 2005, with Peter Buse, Scott McCracken and Bertrand Taithe), Linguistic Turns, 1890–1950: Writing on Language & Social Theory (Oxford University Press, 2019) The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin (Cambridge University Press, 2021)