Evgeny Dobrenko

Reader in Russian, University of Nottingham

Evgeny Dobrenko has worked both in Russia (Odessa State University, Moscow State University, the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) and in the USA (Duke University, Stanford University, Amherst College). His research interests lie in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Socialist Realism, Russian and Soviet film, critical theory and Soviet cultural history. He is the author and editor of the following books: Metaphor of Power: Literature of the Stalin Era in Historical Context, Munich, 1993; The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature. Stanford, 1997; The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet Literary Culture, Stanford, 2000; Isaac Babel's Red Cavalry, co-authored with Galina Belaia and Ivan Esaulov, Moscow, 1993; Ridding Ourselves of Mirages: Socialist Realism Today, ed., Moscow, 1990; Socialist Realism without Shores, ed,. with Thomas Lahusen, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 1997; Endquote: Sots-Art Literature and Soviet Grand Style, ed., with Marina Balina and Nancy Condee, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1999; and The Socialist Realist Canon, with Hans Gunther, Sankt-Peterburg, 2000.