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'Neither Fiery Serpent nor Steaming Steed': The Mythology of Locomotion in Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry By Professor Yuri Leving 5:00pm Toy Lounge, Dey Hall (fourth floor) |
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'Neither Fiery Serpent nor Steaming Steed': The Mythology of Locomotion in Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry By Professor Yuri Leving 5:00pm Toy Lounge, Dey Hall (fourth floor) |
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Professor
Yuri Leving is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the George
Washington University. He earned his Ph.D in 2002 at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, and continued his research in visual arts at the University
of Southern California. He is the author of a book, Train Station -
Garage - Hangar. Vladimir Nabokov and Poetics of Russian Urbanism (St.
Petersburg, 2004, 400 pp.). His articles on Russian literature and culture
have been published in New Literary Observer, Literary Review, Weiner
Slawistischer Almanach, The Explicator, The Nabokovian, Nabokov: Pro
et contra, New Review, Jews and Slavs, and others. Dr. Leving is also
one of the commentators to Vladimir Nabokov's Collected Works of Russian
period (1999-2001) and is currently editing a volume of articles on
Nabokov by Western and Russian scholars. His email: