TSQ No. 6 - Biographical Notes

Naum Basovsky's poetry has been appearing since 1977. His first collection of verse, Pis'mo zakaznoe, was published in Moscow in 1989. His Svobodnyi stikh (Jerusalem, 1997) was awarded the prize of the Union of Russian-language Writers of Israel in 1999.

Irina Belobrovtseva , Ph.D. is a professor at Tallinn University, head of the Slavic Philology Section and Chair of the Department of Literature. She is author of more than a hundred scholarly publications, including Roman M.A. Bulgakova "Master i Margarita: konstruktivnye printsipy organizatsii teksta (Tartu, 1997); a collection of articles on contemporary Estonian literature; a concise commentary to the novel Master i Margarita (co-authored with S.K. Kul'ius) (Tallinn, 2001). She is editor of the series Baltiiskii arkhiv (Materialy po istorii russkoi kul'tury v Pribaltike (vols. 1-3) and of the two-volume memoirs of N.E. Andreev, To, chto vspominaetsia (Tallinn, 1996).

Mikhail Bezrodny completed his PhD at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He currently resides in Bonn. He is the author of Konets tsitaty (1998) and articles on the history and poetics of 20th century Russian literature.

Sergei Biriukov, PhD, is a literary specialist and poet. He is the founder and president of Akademiia Zaumi, a laureate of the International Essay Prize Contest in Berlin, and winner of A. Kruchenykh Award. From 1991 to 1998 he taught at Tambov State University. He is the author of three books on verse theory: Zegma: russkaia poeziia ot man'erizma do postmodernizma (Moscow, 1994); Teoriia i praktika russkogo poeticheskogo avangarda (Tambov, 1998); Poeziia russkogo avangarda (Moscow, 2001), and several volumes of poetry. He is currently teaching at Martin Luther University, Germany.

Nikolai Bogomolov graduated from the Department of Philology of Moscow University in 1973 and earned his Ph.D. at the Department of Soviet Literature in 1979. Has been teaching in the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow University since 1978. Now professor and Head of the department of Literary and Artistic Criticism. Author of over 300 scholarly works, including "Lines Illuminated by October"(Moscow, 1987), "Mikhail Kuzmin: articles and materials"(Moscow 1995), "Poetic Speech"(Moscow, 1995), "Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art (co-author J.E. Malmstad)"(Moscow 1996, English version - Harvard University Press, 1999), "Early Twentieth Century Russian Literature and Occultism"(Moscow, 1999), "Russian Literature of the First Third of the Twentieth Century: Portraits, Issues, Investigations"(Tomsk, 1999). Publisher of the books of I. Annenskii, Andrei Belyi, K. Bol'shakov, V. Bryusov, Z. Gippius, N. Gumilev, G. Ivanov, M. Kuzmin, V. Khodasvich A. Tinyakov.

Yury Borev is a literary specialist and philosopher-aesthetician. A doktor nauk in philology, he is head of the Literary Theory Section in the Institute of World Literature (IMLI), Moscow. He is author of over thirty books which have been translated into thirty-six languages; these include scholarly studies (Komicheskoe, O tragicheskom, Estetika) and popular novels (Staliniada, XX vek v predaniikh i anekdotakh).

Valentina Brio teaches in the Slavic Department of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She has published articles on the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Polish literature, and the Jewish culture of Vilnius.

Yury Chumakov is a professor and doctor filologicheskikh nauk who has taught in universities in Saratov, Velikii Novgorod and Przheval'sk; he is currently a professor of Russian Literature at the Institute of Philology, Mass Information and Psychology of Novosibirsk. His books include "Evgenii Onegin" i russkii stikhotvornyi roman (Novosibirsk, 1983), Stikhotvornaia poetika Pushkina (St. Petersburg, 1999), and "Evgenii Onegin" A.S. Pushkina (Moscow, 1999).

Zahar Davydov is a literary historian who completed his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University, Jersusalem. He is the author of many articles on the life and work of Maksimilian Voloshin, and his books include I golos moi- nabat: o knige M.A. Voloshina "Demony glukhonemye"(ed. S.Schwarcband, Pisa, 1997), Krym Maksimiliana Voloshina (ed.V.Kupchenko, Kiev, 1994), Koktebel'skie berega(Simferopol, 1990), Vospominaniia o Maksimiliane Voloshine (ed.V.Kupchenko, Moscow, 1990). He is co-editor of Toronto Slavic Quarterly and Toronto Slavic Annual.

Vadim Fadin is a poet, novelist and translator of poetry. He has published two collections of his verse, three books of verse translations and a novel. More information is available on the website: http://poetry.liter.net/fadin.html .

Natal'ia Ivanova, PhD, is deputy chief editor of the journal Znamia. She has been publishing works of literary criticism since 1973. Her in literary criticism appears in her books Proza Iuriia Trifonova (Moscow, 1984), Tochka zreniia: o proze poslednikh let (Moscow, 1988), Osvobozhdenie ot strakha (Moscow, 1989), Voskreshenie nuzhykh veshchei (Moscow, 1990), Gibel' bogov (Moscow, 1991), Boris Pasternak: uchast' i prednaznachenie (St. Petersburg, 2000). She is a member of the Union of Writers and the Russian PEN-Centre and Academician-Founder (1997) and President (1999-2001) of the Association of Russian Critics.

Vera Kalmykova is a literary specialist and journalist. Her journalistic interest is the development of contemporary culture (literature, art, theatre). Scholarly interests include the works of Valery Briusov and issues of poetic language.

Vladimir Khazan teaches in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His main area of interest is the history of Russian emigre literature, on which he has written extensively. His books include Dovid Knut: zhizn' i tvorchestvo (Lyon, 2000), Osobennyi evreisko-russkii vozdukh: k problematike I poetike russko-evreiskogo literaturnogo dialoga v XX veke (Jerusalem and Moscow, 2001), and Semen Lutskii: Sochineniia (editing, compilation and commentary), (Stanford, 2002).

Boris Khazanov was arrested in 1949 while a student at Moscow State University and sentenced to eight years in prison; he was freed in 1955, completed medical studies in Kalinin in 1961 and worked as a doctor for some years. After completing his kandidat dissertation he became the science editor for the journal Khimiia i zhizn; he also published books under a pseudonym and articles in the samizdat journal Evrei v SSSR. In 1982 he emigrated to Germany and has since published many books and articles in Europe, America and Russia.

Yakov Kostiukovsky is a writer and author of a number of screenplays, including Operatsiia "Y" i drugie prikliucheniia Shurika, Kavkazskaia plennitsa, and Brilliantovaia ruka.

Taras Koznarsky is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. He studies Ukrainian and Russian literary relations in the first half of the nineteenth century. His dissertation (Harvard University, 2001) focuses on the evolution of Ukrainian cultural identity through the prism of literary almanacs of the 1830s. He also writes on contemporary Ukrainian literature.

Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001) was a poet, critic and historian. From the beginning of the 1970s he was active in the unofficial literary-cultural movement and from 1975 to 1981 edited the unofficial political, cultural and philosophical journal 37; in 1979-80 he co-edited the underground journal Severnaia pochta. He was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize in 1978 and the Pushkin Prize-Grant in 1990. He published fourteen books of poetry and essays, many of which have been translated into the major European languages and into Arabic, Japanese and Chinese. He also translated Vladimir Nabokov's novel Ada into Russian.

Vladimir Kupchenko is a specialist in literary history and the first director of the M.A. Voloshin Museum in Koktebel (Crimea). He is the author of a biography of Voloshin and of many other books and articles on his life and works.

Ralph Lindheim has just retired from the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto. where he taught courses on Russian fiction, drama, and criticism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is now concentrating on projects devoted to his favorite author, Chekhov.

Igor Loschilov holds a Ph.D. in Russian literature from the University of Joensuu, Finland. He currently teaches in the Department of Russian Literature of Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University. He is the author of Fenomen Nikolaia Zabolotskogo (Helsinki, 1997); two collections of poetry, Shalash (Novosibirsk, 1995) and Tsar' v golove (Novosibirsk, 1995); and two collections of prose, Glubokomyslennyi (Novosibirsk, 2000) and General Shlipovka (Novosibirsk, 2001). More information is available on the website: http://litera.ru/slova/loshilov .

Nina Mednis is a professor in the Russian literature department of Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University. Her is the author of Venetsiia v russkoi literature (Novosibirsk, 1999) and Sverkhteksty v russkoi literature (Novosibirsk, 2003) and many articles.

Natalia Menchinskaia is an architect and head of the planning studio in the Institute of Public Buildings. She has designed buildings and university complexes in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Saransk, Vladikavkaz and other cities.

Tatiana Nikolskaia works in the Georgian Literature Section of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and writes on the history of Russian futurism and Russian-Georgian literary connections. She was active in the unofficial literary-cultural movement in Leningrad in the 1960s and in 1967, with her husband L. Chertkov, edited the first collection of Vaginov's poetry to appear since 1934 (in the anthology Den' poezii). She is the author of "Fantasticheskii gorod": Russkaia kul'turnaia zhizn' v Tbilisi (1917-1921 (Moscow, 2000) and Avangard i okrestnosti (St. Petersburg, 2001).

Vadim Perelmuter is a poet, literary historian, essayist and translator. He began publishing in 1965. His first volume of poetry, "Diary," came out in 1984 and since then he has published two more poetry volumes (1991 and 1997) and a book on Vyazemskii (1993). In all he has contributed to some twenty books, including volumes on Vyazemskii, Sluchevskii, Krzhizhanovskii, Shengeli, Shteinberg, Khodasevich and others, as compiler, textologist, or author of introductions and commentaries. He has published over 100 articles in periodicals. Perelmuter also worked for 15 years (from 1977) on the editorial staff of "Literature Education". He initially took charge of the poetry section and then, for 12 years, headed literary theory and archival publications.

Anatoly Pereverzev is an actor and screen writer. He is a graduate of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and has appeared in dozens of films and worked in the Kiev Actor’s Theatre. Since 1990 he has been working in France in the Theâtre du Soleil and the Comédie Française.

Dmitri Priven is a teacher, linguist and translator based in Toronto. He teaches English and linguistics at Seneca College.
His work on the sociolinguistics of language attrition has been published in various journals (Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, among others).

Ilia Serman, Ph.D., completed his studies in the Philological Faculty of Leningrad University. He is a veteran of World War II. In 1949 he was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation and spent five years in the camps of Kolyma. From 1956 to 1976 he was on the staff of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) in Leningrad and from 1965 to 1975 taught at Leningrad University. In 1976 he emigrated to Israel and became a professor in the Slavic Department of Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author ob books on Lermontov, Derzhavin and Batiushkov.

Shmuel Shvartsband , PhD., is a graduate of the Daugavpilss Pedagogical Institute (Latvia). He taught in various schools in Latvia and at the Biisk Pedagogical Institute (Russia). Since 1984 he has been a professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of two monographs on A.S. Pushkin and over 100 articles (ranging in subject matter from Old Russian literature to Mandel'shtam).

Mark G. Sokolyansky , Ph.D., Dr. hab., has recently retired as a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Odessa (Ukraine). He now lives in Lubeck (Germany) and lectures in various European universities as a visiting professor. His publications include books on Shakespeare (Perechityvaia Shekspira, Odessa, 2000), Henry Fielding, Alexander Pushkin, Oscar Wilde, a monograph on typology of the 18th-century novel and more than 250 essays, articles, reviews on various problems of theory and history of literature and theatre.

Tatiana Tsarkova is on the staff of "Pushkin House;" she is a Doctor of Philology and scholar in the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Author of over 100 scholarly works (including the anthology "Russian Poetry of the Epitaph" (1998), plus a monograph on the same theme), and three volumes of poetry: "Philology Lane" (1990), "City of Men of the Common People" (1993), and "Land of the Living" (2000).

Semen Vaiman is a Ph.D. and member of the Russian Akademiia Gumantarnykh Nauk. His books include studies of Rabelais, Dante and Boccaccio as well as Parametry esteticheskoi mysli (Moscow, 1988), Garmonii tainstvennaia vlast': Ob organicheskoi poetike (Moscow, 1989), Mertsaiushchie smysli (Moscow, 1999), Neevklidova poetika (Moscow, 2001), and Dramaticheskii dialog (Moscow, 2003).

Natalia Yakubova graduated from the drama studies department of the Russian Academy of Theatre Art (GITIS). Her academic interests include Polish culture, Eastern European theatre of transition period, and gender studies. As critic she has written extensively about the work of the newest generation in the European theatre and was among those who founded festival NET: New European Theatre (first edition: 1998, Moscow). Since 1995 she has been a research fellow of State Institute of Art Research, Moscow, Department of Central and Eastern European Art.

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