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Research Interests:
1) Russian Poetry, 18th and 20th centuries, particulary its generic development.
2) Russian Film, particulary in its interaction with Spanish, French, and German avant-garde, modernist era; montage theory.
3) Russian and Scandinavian (Swedish and Danish) Realist Visual Arts.
4) Scandinavian (Swedish and Danish) Poetry.
Recent Courses Taught:
Slavic 210-1--Introduction to Russian Literature (Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov).
Slavic 360 -- Survey of Russian Poetry (19th Century).
Slavic 361 -- Survey of Russian Poetry (20th Century).
Slavic 437 -- Contemporary Russian Poetry.
Slavic 437 -- The Concept of the Book in 20th-century Russian Poetry.
Slavic 437-0 -- Russian Narrative Poem.
Slavic 437 -- The Art of Translation in Russian Poetry.
Slavic 367-1 -- Russian Film (Survey of Russian Film and Film Theory from the Silent Era to the 1980s).
Slavic 367-2 -- Russian Film (The Golden Age of Russian Cinema; Russian Film Since World War II).
Slavic 367-2 -- Russian Film (Andrei Tarkovsky's Aesthetics and World Cinema).
CLS 203-- Introduction to Lyric Poetry
CLS 390-Topics in Comparative Literature (Around Bergman)
Current Projects
1). New Sentimentality - Film. Second book in a trilogy about contemporary art dedicated to film.
2). Painting as Writing -- this book project is concentrated on figurative painting and is the third book in a trilogy.
3) Baratynsky Not for Dummies -- the first study in the US of the Donne-like "pessimistic" poetry of Evgeny Baratynsky, the second greatest Russian poet of the 19th century (after Pushkin). The attempt is to show how the poet always provides his readers with an "optimistic" opportunity. All poetry will be translated into contemporary English by Mark Strand and thus will be "readable" not only in Russian for the first time. About 200 pages.
Selected Publications:
Books:
1) Writing as Exorcism: The Personal Codes of Pushkin, Lermontov, and Gogol. 2004.
2) Hieroglyphs of Another World: On Poetry, Swedenborg, and Other Matters. Evanston: Northwestern Press. 220 pages. 2000.
3) The Ode and The Odic: Essays on Mandelstam, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, and Mayakovsky. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1994. 211 pages.
Books of Poetry:
1) The Death of Tragedy, 2 volumes, Moscow, 2003.
1) Ode on Visiting the Belosaraisk Spit on the Sea of Azov (Oda), bilingual edition, Russian, English trans. by Kit Robinson, New York: Alef, 1995.
2) Odysseus' Bow (Luk Odisseia). New poems. St. Petersburg: Sovetskii Pisatel', 1993, 1994 (2nd edition).
3) Swedish Poets: Translations and Variations (Shvedskie poety: perevody i varianty), Moscow: Mir Kultury, MP "Fortuna LTD", 1992 .
4) The Pentathlon of Senses (Piatiborie Chuvstv), Moscow: Moskovskii Rabochii, 1990.
5) Poems translated from Russian into 19 foreign languages.
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