Mikhail Iampol'skii [Михаил Ямпольский]
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Russian Studies
New York University
Mikhail Iampol'skii worked for 17 years at the Institute of Cinema Studies in Moscow, and for a shorter time at the Institute of Philosophy in the same city. He spent a year at the Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities and, since 1992, has taught at NYU, first Film and Performance Studies, and now Comparative Literature and Russian Studies. Among his books are The Visible World: Notes on Early Cinematography, Moscow, 1993; Demon and the Labyrinth: Diagrams, Deformations, Mimesis, Moscow, 1996; Delerium as Source: Reading Kharms, Moscow, 1998; and The Memory of Tiresias: Intertextuality and Film, Berkely, 1998. He is also the author of over 300 articles.
Mr Iampol'skii's has recently published O blizkom (ocherki nemimeticheskogo zreniia). Moscow: Novoe literturnoe obozrenie, 2001.