Mark Lipovetsky is the author of five books on Russian literature and culture: The Hard Work of Freedom: Essays on Contemporary Russian Literature (1991), The Poetics of the Literary Fairy-Tale (1992), Russian Postmodernism: The Essays of Historic Poetics (1997), Russian Postmodernism: Dialogue with Chaos (1999), and Modern Russian Literature: 1950s-1990s (2001, co-authored with Naum Leiderman). He has published extensively on issues of literary and cultural history, theory and criticism in such journals as: Iskusstvo kino (Art of Cinema), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (New Literary Review), Novyi mir (New World),), Oktiabr' (October), Russian Literature, Russian Studies in Literature, and Znamia (Banner). Together with Marina Balina, he currently edits Russian Writers Since 1980, Dictionary of Literary Biography (forthcoming 2002).
Mark Lipovetsky has taught Russian and comparative literature, film, and culture at Ekaterinburg Theater Institute (1989-92), Ural State Pedagogical University (1992-96), the University of Pittsburgh (1994-95) and Illinois Wesleyan University (1996-99). In 1994 he was the recipient of Fulbright Scholarship, in 1998 of Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, and in 2000-2001 of SSRC grant. He currently teaches at the University of Colorado.