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Areas of Research/Interest: Eastern Europe, Poland, Habsburg Monarchy, Enlightenment

Fellowships/Honors: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2003; Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002-2003; International Research & Exchanges Travel Fellowships, 1997, 1999-2000, 2002-2003; Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grants, 1998, 2001; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships, 1990 and 1996-97; Fulbright Fellowship, 1981-1982

Teaching and Research Interests

Select Publications:

Venice and the Slavs:  The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment,

Stanford University Press, 2001; paperback edition, Stanford, 2002

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for Southeast European/ Habsburg Studies, 2002

     awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

            Rome:  Il Veltro Editrice, 2006 (Venezia e gli Slavi)

Inventing Eastern Europe:  The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment,

     Stanford University Press, 1994; paperback edition, 1996

     Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000  (Inventarea Europei de Est)

     Moscow:  Historia Rossica, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2003 

       (Izobretaia Vostochnuiu Evropu: Karta tsivilizatsii v soznanii epokhi Prosvescheniia)

     Sofia:  Kralitsa Mab, 2004

The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the Partitions: 

Diplomatic and Cultural Encounters at the Warsaw Nunciature, 

Boulder East European Monographs/Columbia University Press, 1988

Postcards from the End of the World:  Child Abuse in Freud's Vienna

     New York: Atheneum, 1988; London:  William Collins Sons, 1989

     Salzburg and Vienna:  Residenz Verlag, 1992 (Ansichtskarten vom Weltuntergang)

     Tokyo:  Shobunsha, 1993

     New York (paperback):  New York University Press, 1995

The Enlightenment and the Orthodox World:  Western Perspectives on the Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe (published in English and Greek)

Athens:  Institute for Neohellenic Research, 2001

Le Mirage russe au XVIIIe siècle, eds. Serguei Karp & Larry Wolff

            Ferney:  Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2001

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs.  Introduction by Larry Wolff.  

Translation by Joachim Neugroschel.  New York:  Penguin Classics, 2000. 

“Revising Eastern Europe:  Memory and the Nation in Recent Historiography,”  Journal of Modern History, Volume 78, Number 1 (March 2006), pp. 93-118.

“The Operatic Tragedy of Central Europe,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 36, Number 4 (Spring 2006), pp. 683-95. 

“Depraved Inclinations:  Libertines and Children in Casanova’s Venice,” Eighteenth-Century Studies Volume 38, Number 3 (Spring 2005), pp. 417-40.

“Inventing Galicia:  Messianic Josephinism and the Recasting of Partitioned Poland,” Slavic Review, Volume 63, Number 4 (Winter 2004), pp. 818-840.

“The Spirit of 1776: Polish and Dalmatian Declarations of Philosophical Independence,” in History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries, eds. Marcel Cornis-Pope & John Neubauer (Amsterdam:  John Benjamins, 2004), pp. 294-306.

“The Traveler’s View of Central Europe:  Gradual Transitions, Degrees of Difference, and the Shadows of Influence,” Comparare:  Comparative European History Review, 2003, pp.  18-35.

“Die Erfindung Osteuropas: Von Voltaire zu Voldemort” in  Europa und die Grenzen im Kopf, eds. Karl Kaser, Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl, & Robert Pichler  (Graz:  Wieser Verlag, 2003), pp. 21-34.

“The Rise and Fall of Morlacchismo:  South Slavic Identity in the Mountains of Dalmatia,” in Yugoslavia and its Historians:  Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, eds. Norman Naimark & Holly Case (Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 37-52.

“The Poetry and Prose of Everyday Life in Communist Kraków:  Moths, Old Maids, and the Memoirs of Adam Zagajewski,” Slavic Review 61, no. 2 (Summer 2002),  345-56.

"Dynastic Conservatism and Poetic Violence in Fin-de-siècle Cracow:  The Habsburg Matrix of Polish Modernism,"  The American Historical Review, Vol. 106, No. 3 (June 2001), pp. 735-764.

"After the Thaw: A Child of the Cold War Revisits Russia," New York Times Sunday Travel Section, 16 December 2001.

"A New Mental Map of the World: Dalmatia, the Eastern Bloc, and the Seacoast of our Imaginations," The New York Times, Op-Ed, 28 June 2001

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