TSQ No. 7 - Biographical Notes

Irina Borisova completed a dissertation on inter-mediality and the thematics of music in the literature of Russian romanticism. She has published a series of articles on musical and mystical subtexts in Odoevsky and Pushkin and on the poetics of musical instruments and the metalanguage of aesthetics and criticism of romanticism. She is a member of the Department of Aesthtics and Ethics in the Philosophy Faculty of St. Petersburg University. Her most recent works deal with the Venetian theme in Rozanov, the poetics of Krzhizhanovsky, and with contemporary prose and poetry.

Vladimir Budaragin , PhD, works in the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has published many scholarly articles and is the author of three collections of verse, Pesochnye chasy (1990), Tridtsat' stikhotvorenii (1993), and Kniga posviashchenii (2000).

Olena Haleta , PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literary Theory, University of Lviv. She specializes in twentieth-century Ukrainian literature and is the author/compiler of Valer'ian Pidmohil'nyi (2001) and Dosvid kokhannia i krytyka chistoho rozumu. Valer'ian Pidmohil'nyi: teksty ta konflikt interpretatsii (2003).

Ilia Kukui is a bibliographer at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

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 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.

Ol'ga Kushlina , Doctor of Philology, Russian 20th century poetry specialist. Compiler of several anthologies, including "Russian 20th Century Literature in the Mirror of Parody"(1993), "One Hundred Women Poets of the Silver Age"(1996; second edition 2000 - with coauthor), "Russian 20th Century Drama"(2 volumes, 2000), "Poetry of the Silver Age"(3 volumes, 2001). Author of the book "Passionflower. Petersburg Windowsills"(2001) as well as numerous articles and essays.

Lidiia Lotman is a literary scholar specializing in Russian literature, primarily drama, of the nineteenth century. Her books include A.N. Ostrovskii i russkaia dramaturgiia ego vremeni (1961) and Realizm russkoi literatury 60-kh gg. 19 v. (1974). She took part in preparing the academy editions of the works of Belinsky, Gogol, Turgenev and others.

Rostislav Melnykiv , PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at Kharkiv University, editor of the journal Knizhnyi klub and member of the Union of Writers of Ukraine. He specializes in the history of twentieth-century Ukrainian literature. His books include Okhota na Olenia (1996) and Mark Iogansen: landshafty transformatsii (2000).

Margarita Pavlova , PhD, is on the staff of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) and is a specialist in the works of Fedor Sologub.

Vladislav Rezvii is a poet and translator with a special interest in the history of poetic translation and in textology.

Olga Rubinchik is a literary specialist who has been on the staff of the Anna Akhmatova Museum for the past ten years. She is co-author (with N.I. Popova) of Anna Akhmatova i Fontanny Dom (St. Petersburg: Dialekt, 2000) and has edited (with N.I. Popova) two other collections of memoirs of Akhmatova. Her articles and poems have appeared in Russkaia mysl and Zvezda. .

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.

Roman Timenchik is a specialist in early twentieth-century Russian literature. Since 1991 he has been a professor in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Elena Tolstaia was born in Leningrad and studied at the Maurice Thorez Institute in Moscow. She completed her doctoral dissertation, on Platonov, at Jerusalem University, where she now teaches Russian literature. The second edition of her book on Chekhov, Poetika razdrazheniia, and a collection of her articles are now being published by the Russian State Humanities University.

Viktor Vanslov has a doctorate in art history and is a member of the presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts and an Honoured Artist of Russia. His areas of interest include aesthetics, theatre, music and the visual arts. Among his best known books are Opera i ee stsenicheskoe voploshchenie; Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo i muzykal'nyi teatr; Estetika romantizma; Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo i problemy estetiki; Estetika. Iskusstvo. Iskusstvoznanie.

Evgenii Vitkovskii is a literary scholar, poet, prose writer and translator. He completed studies in Art History at Moscow University. He began publishing in 1969 in Moscow and, at about the same time, in the West under a variety of pseudonyms (although since 1986 only under his own name). He is the author of many studies on the translation of poetry, Russian emigre poetry and European poetry. He edited the anthologies My zhili togda na planete drugoi (1994-97), Strofy veka - 2, a collection of world poetry translated by Russian poets (1998), Sem' vekov frantsuzskoi poezii (1999), and others. He has also edited the collected works of poets such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire, Francois Villon, Rudyard Kipling, and John Keats. His three-volume novel Pavel II appeared in 2000 (Moscow: AST, Kharkov: Folio).

Aleksandr Zholkovskii is a literary specialist and writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow State University in 1959 and completed his doctoral degree in the University's Institute of Asian and African Studies in 1966. In 1979 he left the Soviet Union and currently resides in Los Angeles, where he is a Professor at the University of Southern California. He has written over ten monographs in the fields of linguistics and literature studies, including volumes on Babel (in conjunction with M. Iampolskii, 1994) and Zoshchenko (1999), and two volumes of prose: NRZB. Stories (Moscow, 1991) and Memoir Vignettes and other Non-Fictions (2000).

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