Christopher Fort
American University of Central AsiaDr. Christopher Fort received his MA from the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at The Ohio State University in 2012. Upon graduation, he began his doctoral studies at University of Michigan's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. While there he earned a Fulbright student grant to conduct archival research in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He used that time not only to finish his dissertation, but also to acquire materials and contacts for the translation of two Uzbek novels into English. His translations of Abdulhamid Cho'lpon's Night and Day (1934) and Isajon Sulton's Eternal Wanderer (2010) came out in 2019 as well. Since 2020 he has been Assistant Professor at American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He pialublishes on Central Asian literature and socialist realism, de- and postcolonialism, and Central Asian intellectual history. He is currently working on several pieces focusing on the reception of Khrushchev's Thaw in Soviet Uzbekistan.
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