Mikhail N. Epstein (Epshtein)

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature

Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC)

Emory University

2115 Spring Creek Rd. Decatur, GA 30033. Tel. (404) 633-8267 (home)

125 Trimble Hall, 637 Asbury Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322. Tel. (404) 727-2594 (office)

E-mail: russmne@emory.edu

Internet home page: http:/www.emory.edu/INTELNET/Index.html

Cultural and literary theory; the history of Russian literature (especially Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky and 20th century poetry); philosophy and religion in contemporary Russia; Western and Russian postmodernism; semiotics; interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities; ideas and electronic media.

l988 - 1990 Ph. D. Dissertation in Philology: "Semantika slavianskogo slovoobraza i struktura ego assotsiativnykh sviazei" ("The Semantics of the Slavonic Word-Image and the Structure of Its Associative Connections"). The Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow (partly published as "Priroda, mir, tainik vselennoi...", see "Publications").

l967-l972 Moscow State University, Faculty of Philology, Russian Department. Equivalent to M. A. and B. A. Specialized in the theory of literature and in the history of Russian literature. Title of the thesis: "The Functions of Dénouement in a Literary Work." Graduated summa cum laude.

l967 Moscow High School No. 5. Graduated with gold medal.

EMPLOYMENT:

September 1, 2000 Full Professor; appointed Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature.

Fall 1995-Spring 2000 Associate Professor. REALC, Emory University

Fall 1990-Spring 1995 Assistant Professor. REALC, Emory University (on leave in 1990-1991, fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars).

Spring l990 Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Courses: "Soviet Ideological Thought and Language"; "Avant-Garde in 20th c. Russian Poetry."

1988-1990 Director of the Laboratory of Contemporary Culture, Experimental Center of Creativity, Moscow. Conducted and coordinated interdisciplinary research projects on new literary and intellectual trends in the USSR.

l988 Visiting Professor at the Gorky Literary Institute, Moscow. Taught 20th c. literary theory.

1986-1988 Director of the "Image and Thought" Association. Conducted and coordinated interdisciplinary seminars involving collaboration of writers, artists, critics and scientists.

1978-1985 Lecturer at the Moscow Bureau of Literary Education, the Union of Writers of the USSR. Lecture topics included history of Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and literary theory.

l973-l978 Researcher at the Department of Theoretical Problems, the World Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

l973-l977 Lecturer of Russian language and literature at Moscow Power Institute and All-Union Institute of Finance and Economics. Courses: Russian Literature of the 19th C.; Russian Literature of the 20th C.; Practical Grammar and Style of Russian Language; Literary Composition.

LIT 302, ENG 384 Literary Theory/ English Criticism

RUSS 360. Dostoevsky

RUSS 401. 19th Century Russian Literature in the Original

RUSS 402. 20th Century Russian Literature in the Original

AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

1999, - award winner, the International Essay Prize Contest set up by Lettre International, the European literary magazine, and Weimar 1999 - Cultural City of Europe in cooperation with Goethe-Institut. The topic: "Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future?" The ten winning essays were selected out of approximately 2,500 submissions from 123 countries in the anonymous process of evaluation by seven national juries (English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic) and the international jury of writers and scholars.

Title of the essay: "Tempocide: a Prologue to the Resurrection of Time."

Award: 6,000 German marks and residence for two months in Nietzsche House, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik (The Foundation of Weimar Classics, Germany). June-July 2000.

January 2000. The prize of Zvezda (The Star Monthly), the leading St.-Petersburg literary journal, for the best publications of 1999: the articles "Russkaia kul'tura na rasput'ie. Sekuliarizatsiia i perekhod ot dvoichnoi modeli k troichnoi" (Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Secularization and Transition from the Binary Model to the Ternary One) and "Informatsionnyi vzryv i travma postmodernizma" (The Informational Explosion and the Trauma of Postmodernism). Zvezda 1999, No. 1, 202-220; No. 2, 155-176; No. 11, 216 - 228.

Fall 1999 - Spring 2002 Gustafson scholar, co-leader of the interdisciplinary faculty seminar at Emory University, $4,000 stipend annualy, three year appointment.

Fall 1998- Summer 2001 Inaugural recipient of Distinguished Research Award from Emory College for "singular accomplishments in research." $5,000 salary supplement and $3,000 research fund annually, three year term.

Summer 1996 $5,000 from Emory Teaching Fund and Center for Teaching and Curriculum, the development of the new course "Western and Russian Postmodernism."

The Social Innovations Award 1995 in the category of "creativity" from the Institute for Social Inventions (London) for the electronic Bank of New Ideas as one of "the most imaginative, feasible and potentially transformative schemes." See award citation: http://globalideasbank.org/Awards.HTML#creativity.

Summer 1995 $3,600 from REES (then SEES), the development of the new course "Jews in Russian Culture."

July 1992-December 1994 $69, 500 from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, Washington, D. C. Research: Russian Philosophical and Humanistic Thought since 1950.

September 1992-August 1993 $10, 000 from the University Research Committee, Emory University. Research: Non-Marxist Trends in Recent Russian Philosophy: Structuralism, Neo-Slavophilism, and Personalism.

Summer 1992 $4,000 from the University Research Committee, Emory University. Research: Vicissitudes of Soviet Marxism, 1950-1990.

Andrei Belyi Prize, 1991, for the best work in literary criticism and scholarship (awarded annually in St.-Petersburg since 1978; the first non-governmental literary prize established in the former USSR). See the Web site of Belyi prize http://guelman.ru/slava/beliy/premia.htm

August 1990-August 1991 Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, D. C. Research: Soviet Ideological Language.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(in library catalogs, the majority of publications are listed under the name Mikhail Epshtein)

14 original books published in English and Russian, and 8 books translated into German, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian. Articles and essays have been translated and published in 13 languages: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Finnish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian. Full list of publications includes about 350 items.

In English:

1.Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with Ellen Berry). New York: St. Martin's Press (Scholarly and Reference Division), 1999, 340 pp. (of 23 chapters in this book, 16 are written by this author).

2. Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, in the series Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture, and Society, vol. 3). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999, 528 pp. (of 24 chapters in this book, 16 are written by this author). Hardcover and paperback editions.

Electronic edition, Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, Inc., 2000.

4. Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking: An Inquiry into the Language of Soviet Ideology. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Occasional Paper, #243. Washington: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1991,94 pp.

SCHOLARLY BOOKS:

5. Postmodern v Rossii: literatura i teoriia (The Postmodern in Russia: Literature and Theory). Moscow: LIA Elinina, 2000, 370 pp.

6. Vera i obraz. Religioznoe bessoznatel'noe v russkoi kul'ture XX veka (Faith and Image: The Religious Unconscious in Twentieth Century Russian Culture), Tenafly (New Jersey): Hermitage Publishers, 1994, 270 pp.

7. 'Priroda, mir, tainik vselennoi. . .' Sistema peizazhnykh obrazov v russkoi poezii ('Nature, the World, the Mystery of the Universe...': The System of Landscape Images in Russian Poetry). Moscow: Vysshaia Shkola [the central university press of Russia], l990, 304 pp.

8. Paradoksy novizny. O literaturnom razvitii XIX-XX vekov (The Paradoxes of Innovation: On the Development of Literature in the l9th and 20th Centuries). Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel' [the central Russian press in literature and literary scholarship], l988, 4l6 pp.

BOOKS OF CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS:

9. Bog detalei. Narodnaia dusha i chastnaia zhizn' v Rossii na iskhode imperii (A Deity of Details: The Public Soul and Private Life at the Twilight of the Russian Empire). New York: Slovo/Word, 1997, 248 pp.

2nd, revised and expanded edition. Moscow: LIA Elinina, 1998, 240 pp.

10. Na granitsakh kul'tur. Rossiiskoe - amerikanskoe - sovetskoe (On the Borders of Cultures: Russian - American - Soviet). New York, Slovo/Word, 1995, 343 pp.

11. Novoe sektantstvo: tipy religiozno-filosofskikh umonastroenii v Rossii, 1970-80-e gody (New Sectarianism: The Varieties of Religious-Philosophical Consciousness in Russia, the 1970s-1980s). Holyoke (Massachusetts): New England Publishing Co., 1993, 179 pp.

2nd edition, reprint, Moscow: Labirint, 1994, 181 pp.

12. Velikaia Sov'. Filosofsko-mifologicheskii ocherk (Great Sov'. A Philosophical-Mythological Essay). New York: Word/Slovo, 1994, 175 pp.

13. Ottsovstvo (Fatherhood. An Essay), Tenafly (New Jersey): Hermitage Publishers, 1992, 160 pp.

14. Novoe v klassike. Derzhavin, Pushkin, Blok v sovremennom vospriiatii (The Classics Renovated: Derzhavin, Pushkin, and Blok in Contemporary Perception). Moscow: Znanie, l982, 40 pp.

In German:

15. Tagebuch für Olga. Chronik einer Vaterschaft. Aus dem Russischen von Otto Markus [translation of #13] Munich: Roitman Verlag, 1990, 256 pp.

In Serbo-Croatian:

16. Novo Sektashtvo Tipovi religiozno-filozofskikx pogleda na svet u Rusiju (70-ikh i 80-ikh godina xx veka). (New Sectarianism), transl. from Russian by Draginia Ramadanski. Novi Sad: Aurora, 2001, 220 pp.

17. Ochinstvo (Fatherhood), transl. from Russian by Draginia Ramadanski. Novi Sad: Aurora, 2001, 224 pp.

18. Ruska kultura na raskrscu. Sekularizacija i prelaz sa dualnog na trojicni model. (Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Secularization and Transition from the Binary Model to the Trinitary One), transl. from Russian by Radmila Mecanin. Beograd, Narodna knjiga/Alfa, Beograd, 1999, 100 pp.

19. Vera i lik. Religiozno nesvesno u ruskoi kulturi XX veka. (Faith and Image: The Religious Unconscious in Twentieth Century Russian Culture) S ruskog prevela (translated from Russian) Radmila Mechanin. Novi Sad: Matitsa srpska, 1998, 356 pp. [translation of #7)

20. Postmodernizam (Postmodernism). S ruskog prevela Radmila Mechanin. Beograd: Zepter Book World, 1998, 157 pp.

21. Esej (Essay). [Theory of Essay as a Genre]. S ruskog prevela Radmila Mechanin.Beograd: Narodna knjiga-Alfa, Biblioteka Pojmovnik, 1997, 172 pp.

22. A posztmodern és Oroszorszäg (Postmodernism in Russia). Budapest: Európa Könyvkiadó, 2001, 340 pp.

1. Filosofiia vozmozhnogo. Modal'nosti v myshlenii i kul'ture (The Philosophy of the Possible: The Modalities in Thought and Culture) (in Russian). S.-Petersburg: Aleteia, May 2001

2. The Philosophy of the Possible: On the Modalities of Humanistic Thinking.

Albany: SUNY Press (contract signed).

3. Russian Philosophical and Humanistic Thought since 1950. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press (contract signed).

4. Cries in the New Wilderness: A Handbook of Nascent Sects (#11, trans. into English by Eve Adler), Paul Dry Books (Philadelphia), 2001.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES

CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC EDITIONS:

Main Trends of Contemporary Russian Thought. Paideia. Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (Boston, Aug. 1999), vol. XII: Intercultural Philosophy. Stephen Dawson and Tomoko Iwasawa, Editors. Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2001, 131-146.

"Postmodernism, Communism, and Sots-Art," Endquote: Sots-art Literature and Soviet Grand Style, ed. by Marina Balina, Nancy Condee, and Evgeny Dobrenko. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2000, 3-31.

"The Irony of Style: The Demonic Element in Gogol's Concept of Russia," Gogol: Exploring Absence. Negativity in 19th Century Russian Literature, ed. by Sven Spieker. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 1999, 55-71.

"Cultural Theory after Multiculturalism: From Culturology to Transculture." Australian Slavonic and East European Studies. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Slavists Association and of the Australian Association of Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1999, 31-54.

"Judaic Spiritual Traditions in the Poetry of Pasternak and Mandel'shtam," trans. from Russian by Ruth Rischin, Symposium. A Quartely Journal in Modern Literatures. Special Issue on Judaic Literature. Identity, Displacement, and Destruction. Vol. 52, No. 4, Winter 1999, 205-231.

The Teachings of Iakov Abramov As Interpreted by His Disciples. Compiled, edited and commented by Mikhail Epstein. Transl. from Russian by Anesa Miller-Pogacar, in Symposion. A Journal of Russian Thought, Los Angeles: Charles Schlacks, Jr., Publisher, University of Southern California, vol. 3, 1999, 29-66.

"On hyperauthorship: Hypotheses on Potential Identities of Araki Yasusada," Sycamore Review (Purdue University), Vol. 10, No. 1 Winter/Spring 1998, 71-81.

"Daniil Andreev and the Mysticism of Femininity," The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture, ed. by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1997, 325-355.

"Fugitive Russian Sects: A Handbook for Beginners," transl. by Eve Adler, New

England Review (Middlebury Series, VT), vol.18, No.2, Spring 1997, 70-100.

"Hyper in 20th Century Culture: The Dialectics of Transition from Modernism to Postmodernism" (transl. from Russian by Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, revised and extended by the author), Postmodern Culture. An Electronic Journal of Interdisciplinary Criticism. Published by North Carolina State University, Oxford University Press, and the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. V.6 N.2. January 1996, 61 paragraphs. Reprinted in Left Curve (Oakland, CA), No.21, 1997, 5-16.

"Response: 'Post-' and Beyond," "Russian Critical Theory and Postmodernism: The Theoretical Writings of Mikhail Epstein" Forum, in Slavic and East European Journal, Fall 1995, Vol.39, No.3, 357-366.

"The Origins and Meaning of Russian Postmodernism," in Re-entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture, ed. by Ellen Berry and Anesa Miller-Pogacar, University of Michigan Press, 1995, 25-47.

"A Catalog of the New Poetries," ibid., 208-211.

"Ivan Soloviev's Reflections on Eros," in Genders, 22, a special issue Postcommunism and the Body Politic, ed. by Ellen Berry, New York and London: New York University Press, 1995, 252-266.

The Vicissitudes of Soviet Marxism: 1950-1994 [book format] Washington, D.C. National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1994, 43 pp.

The Russian Philosophy of National Spirit: Conservatism and Traditionalism [book format] Washington, D.C.: National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1994, 25 pp.

The Significance of Russian Philosophy [book format], Washington, D.C.: National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1994, 13 pp.

The Origins and the Meaning of Russian Postmodernism [book format], Washington, D.C.: National Council for Soviet and East European Research, 1993, 28 pp.

"Things and Words: Towards a Lyrical Museum, in Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture, ed. and transl. by Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich, with preface by Stephen Bann. Chicago and London:Chicago University Press, 1993, 152-172.

"After the Future: On the New Consciousness in Literature," in Late Soviet Culture: From Perestroika to Novostroika, ed. by Thomas Lahusen with Gene Kuperman (transl.). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993, 257-287; first publication in The South Atlantic Quarterly, Duke UP, Spring 1991, Vol. 90, No. 2, 409-444.

"Good-bye to Objects, or, the Nabokovian in Nabokov," in A Small Alpine Form: Studies in Nabokov’s Short Fiction, ed. by Gene Barabtarlo and Charles Nicol, New York: Garland Publishers (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1580), 1993, 217-224.

"Symposium on Russian Postmodernism" (with Jerome McGann, Marjorie Perloff et al.), Postmodern Culture, University of North Carolina, January 1993, Vol.3, No.2.

Afterword, in Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry, ed. by Kent Johnson and Stephen M. Ashby, transl. by Anesa Miller-Pogacar. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992, 271-286.

"Labor of Lust," Common Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 1992, Vol. 1, No. 3, 91-107 (partly transl. by Andrew Wachtel).

"Tom Wolfe and Social(ist) Realism," Common Knowledge, 1992, Vol.1, No. 2, 1992, 147-160.

"Apocalypse Now?" Frontier. Religion East & West (Keston Research), Oxford (UK) July-August 1991, 12-14.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH:

Commentary and Hypotheses, in Doubled Flowering: From the Notebooks of Araki Yasusada. Ed. and Trans. by Tosa Motokiyu, Oji Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin. New York: Roof Books, 1997, pp. 134-147.

"Some Speculations on the Mystery of Araki Yasusada," Witz (Studio City, California), Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer 1997, 4-13.

"Postmodernism and Communism" [parallel texts in Russian and English]. Slovo/Word, No. 19, New York, 1996, 32-63.

"After the Carnival" [on the writer Venedikt Erofeev, parallel texts in Russian and English], in The End of the 20th Century, a special issue of Slovo/Word, No. 16, New York, 1995, 50-81.

"Materialism, Sophiology, and the Soul of Russia: Daniel Andreev and Russian Feminine Mysticism." Urania (Moscow), No.4, 1993, pp. 19-22; No.5, 1994, 21-25.

"Kabakov," in Place Displacement Travel Exile, a special issue of Five Fingers Review, San-Francisco, No.12, 1993, 127-134.

"A Philosophical Renaissance in Contemporary Russia," The Eurasian Report. Washington: The Center for American-Eurasian Studies and Relations. 1992, Vol. 2, No. 2, 15-18.

"Avant-Garde Art and Religious Consciousness," in Vanishing Points: Spirituality and the Avant-Garde, a special issue of Five Fingers Review. San Francisco, 1991, No. 10, 165-180.

"'Like a Corpse I Lay In the Desert. . .'" (On New Moscow Poetry), Mapping Codes: A Collection of New Writing from Moscow to San Francisco, a special issue of Five Fingers Review, San Francisco, 1990, No. 8/9, 162-167.

"Bearers of Mass Consciousness," in Novostroika, London: The Institute of Contemporary Arts Documents, 8. 1989, 21-22.

"Exposing the Quagmire" (Conceptualism in Russian Poetry), Times Literary Supplement, London, 1989, April 7-13.

INTERVIEWS, DIALOGUES:

Swedish Dialogue on Poetry, in Ilya Kutik. Hieroglyphs of Another World: On Poetry, Swedenborg and Other Matters, ed. by Andrew Wachtel. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2000, 36-45.

Quo vadis, Philosophie? Antworten der Philosophen. Dokumentation einer Weltumfrage (Where Philosophy is Moving? Philosophers' Answers to Global Questions). Hrsg. by Raul Fornet-Betancourt. Concordia. Internationale Zetschrift für Philosophie. Aachen: Mainz, 1999, 94-98.

From Internet to InteLnet: Electronic Media and Intellectual Creativity. An Interview with Mikhail Epshtein, by Evgeny Shklovsky. ARTMARGINS: Contemporary Central and East European Visual Culture. August 1999,

http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/artmargins/

Ellen E.Berry, Kent Johnson, Anesa Miller-Pogacar, "Postcommunist Postmodernism --- An Interview with Mikhail Epstein," Common Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 1993, Vol. 2, No.3, 103-118.

Sally Laird, "Life after Utopia: New Poets in Moscow," an interview with M.Epstein, Index on Censorship, London, January 1988, 12-14.

IN RUSSIAN

ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS:

"Postupok i proisshestvie. K teorii sud'by" (The Act and the Accident: Toward the Theory of Fate). Voprosy filosofii (Moscow), 2000, No. 9, 65-77.

"Figura povtora. Filosof Nikolai Fyodorov i ego literatrurnye prototipy" (The Figure of Repetition. The Philosopher Nikolai Fyodorov and His Literary Prototypes). Voprosy literatury, 2000, No. 6, 114-124.

"K filosofii vozmozhnogo. Vvedenie v postkriticheskuiu epokhu" (Toward the Philosophy of the Possible: An Introduction to the Post-Critical Epoch). Voprosy filosofii (Moscow), 1999, No. 6, 59-72.

"Kriticheskaia universal'nost', ili Filosofiia posle Kongressa (Critical Universality, or Philosophy after the Congress). Vestnik Rossiiskogo filosofskogo obshchestva. Rossiiskaia akademiia nauk (Moscow), 1998, No. 3 (7), 57-64.

"'Pir' Platona i russkaia filosofiia" (Plato's "Banquet" and Russian Philosophy). Voprosy filosofii, 1998, No. 2, 178-180.

"Ironiia stilia: Demonicheskoe v obraze Rossii u Gogolia" (The Irony of Style: The Demonic in Gogol's Image of Russia). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (Moscow), No. 19 (1996), 129-147.

"Ot modernizma k postmodernizmu. Dialektika "giper" v kul'ture XX veka" (From Modernism to Postmodernism. The Dialectics of "Hyper" in 20th Century Culture), Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (Moscow), No. 16 (1995), 32-46.

"Ideologiia i iazyk: postroenie modeli i osmyslenie diskursa" (Ideology and Language: the Construction of a Model and the Interpretation of a Discourse), Voprosy iazykoznaniia (Moscow), 1991, No.6, 19-33.

"Zakony svobodnogo zhanra. Esseistika i esseizm v kul'ture Novogo vremeni" (The Laws of a Free Genre: Essays and Essayism in the Culture of Modernity), Voprosy literatury (Moscow), No. 7, 1987, 120-152.

"Teoriia iskusstva i iskusstvo teorii" (The Theory of Art and the Art of Theory), Voprosy literatury, l987, No. l2, l8-34.

"Pokolenie, nashedshee sebia. O novoi poezii vos'midesiatykh godov" (A Generation That Found Itself: The New Poetry of the l980s), Voprosy literatury, l986, No. 5, 40-72.

"Realogiia - nauka o veshchakh" (Realogy: The Study of Things). Dekorativnoe iskusstvo (Moscow), 1985, No.6, 21-22,44.

"O znachenii detali v strukture obraza. Perepischiki u Gogolia i Dostoevskogo" (On the Meaning of Detail in the Structure of Image: Scribes in Gogol and Dostoevsky), Voprosy literatury, 1984, No. 12, 134-145.

"Igra v zhizni i v iskusstve" (The Principle of Play in Life and Art), Sovremennaia dramaturgiia, Moscow, 1982, No. 2, 244-254.

"Poetika zimy" (The Poetics of Winter), Voprosy literatury, 1979, No. 11, 171-204 (with Helen Iukina-Epstein).

O stilevykh nachalakh realizma. Poetika Stendalia i Bal'zaka (On the Stylistic Principles of Realism: The Poetics of Balzac and Stendhal). Voprosy literatury, 1977, No.8, 106-134.

"V poiskakh estestvennogo cheloveka" (In Search of a Natural Human Being), Voprosy literatury, 1976, No. 8, 111-145.

"Kritika v konflikte s tvorchestvom" (Criticism in Conflict with Creativity), Voprosy literatury, l975, No. 2, l3l-l68 (transl. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin, 1975, No. 10).

"Mezhdu simvolom i real’nost’iu" ("Between the Symbol and Reality," review), Voprosy Literatury, 1973, No. 6, 243-253.

CHAPTERS IN ACADEMIC EDITIONS:

Istoriia i parodiia. O Yurii Tynianove (History and Parody: On Yury Tynianov). L-kritika (L-criticism). The Yearbook of the Academy of Contemporary Russian Literature. Moscow: ARSS, 2000, 243-251.

"Vesel'e mysli, ili Kul'tura kak ritual" (The Merriment of Thought, or Culture as Ritual), introduction to Alexander Genis. Ivan Petrovich umer. Stat'i i rassledovaniia (Ivan Petrovich is Dead: Articles and Investigations). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 1999, 8-20.

"Giper" v kul'ture 20-go veka: dialektika perexoda ot modernizma k postmodernizmu, in Modernizm i postmodernizm v russkoj literature i kul'ture (Modernism and Postmodernism in Russian Literature and Culture). Slavica Helsingiensia 16. Studia Russica Helsingiensia et Tartuensia V. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1996, 27-47

"Uchenie Iakova Abramova v izlozhenii ego uchenikov" (The Teachings of Yakov Abramov in the Interpretation of His Disciples), in LOGOS. Leningradskie mezhdunarodnye chteniia po filosofii kul’tury (Leningrad International Readings on Philosophy of Culture), Leningrad University Press, 1991, 211-254.

"Chto takoe metabola? O tret'em trope" (What is Metabole? On the Third Trope), in Stilistika i poetika: Tezisy vsesoiuznoi nauchnoi konferentsii (Stylistics and Poetics), vypusk 2. Moscow: Institut russkogo iazyka AN SSSR, 1989, 75-80.

"Sposoby vozdeistviia ideologicheskogo vyskazyvaniia" (The Modes of Effectivity of Ideological Discourse), in Obraz cheloveka dvadtsatogo veka. Moscow: Akademiia nauk SSSR, Institut nauchnoi informatsii po obshchestvennym naukam, l988, l67-2l6.

"Operativnost’ pechati - sredstvo intensifikatsii i integratsii nauchnogo myshleniia" ("The Mobility of Press as a Way to Intensification and Integration of Scientific Thinking"). Uskorenie i perestroika v sisteme nauchno-tekhnicheskoi informatsii SSSR. Moscow: Nauka, 1988, 52-58.

"Faust na beregu moria. Tipologicheskii analiz parallel'nykh motivov u Gete i Pushkina" (Faust at the Seashore: A Typological Analysis of Parallel Motives in Goethe and Pushkin), in Getevskie chteniia (Goethean Proceedings), 1984, Moscow: Nauka, 1986, 184-202; first publication in Voprosy Literatury, 1981, No. 6, 89-110 (transl. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin, 1982, No. 2).

"Mir zhivotnykh i samosoznanie cheloveka: obrazy russkoi poezii XIX-XX vekov" (The World of Animals and Human Self-Consciousness: Images in Russian Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries), in Tvorcheskii protsess v iskusstve. Voprosy kompleksnogo izucheniia. Chelovek - priroda - iskusstvo. Leningrad: Nauka, 1986, 126-145.

"Tema i variatsiia. K probleme poeticheskoi traditsii: Pushkin i Mandel'shtam" (A Theme and a Variation. On the Problem of Poetic Tradition: Pushkin and Mandel'shtam), in Tselostnoct' literaturnogo proizvedeniia kak problema istoricheskoi poetiki. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Kemerovskii gosudartstvennyi universitet, 1986, 8-22.

"Literaturnoe proizvedenie i ego kriticheskoe istolkovanie" (A Literary Work and Its Critical Interpretation), in Aktual'nye problemy metodologii literaturnoi kritiki. Printsipy i kriterii. Moscow: Nauka, l980, 302-320.

"Analitizm i polifonizm vo frantsuzskoi proze. Stili Stendalia i Bal'zaka" (Analytic and Polyphonic Principles in French Prose: The Styles of Stendhal and Balzac), in Teoriia literaturnykh stilei. Tipologiia stilevogo razvitiia XIX veka (The Theory of Literary Styles. The Typology of Stylistic Development of the 19th Century), Moscow: Nauka, 1977, 230-277 (transl. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin, 1978, No. 7).

"Dialektika znaka i obraza v poeticheskikh proizvedeniiakh Aleksandra Bloka" (The Dialectics of Sign and Image in Alexander Blok's Poetic Works), in Semiotika i iskusstvo (Semiotics and Art), Moscow: Nauka, l977, 338-357.

Début de siecle, ili Ot Post- k Proto-. Manifest novogo veka (Début de Siecle, or From Post- to Proto-: A Manifesto for a New Century). Znamia, No.5, 2001.

Ateizm kak dukhovnoe prizvanie. Iz arkhivov Prof. R. O. Gibaidulinoi (Atheism as a Spiritual Calling: From the Archives of Professor R. O. Gibaidulina). Zvezda, No.4, 2001.

Slovo kak proizvedenie: O zhanre odnosloviia (A Word as a Work of Art: On the genre of 'one word'." Novyi mir, 2000, No.9, 204-215.

Odnoslovie kak literaturnyj zhanr (A Word as a Literarary Genre). Kontinent (Moscow-Paris), No. 104, 2000, 279-313.

Khronotsid. Prolog k voskresheniiu vremeni (Chronocide: A Prologue to the Resurrection of Time). Oktiabr', 2000, No.7, 157-171.

Khasid i Talmudist. Sravnitel'nyi opyt o Pasternake i Mandel'shtame" (A Khasid and a Talmudist: A Comparative Essay on Pasternak and Mandelshtam). Zvezda, 2000, No. 4, 82-96.

Informatsionnyi vzryv i travma postmodernizma. (The Informational Explosion and the Trauma of Postmodernism). Zvezda, 1999, No. 11, 216 - 228.

Kniga, zhdushchaia avtorov (The Book Waiting for Its Authors). Inostrannaia literatura (Moscow), 1999, No.5, 217-228.

Russkaia kul'tura na rasput'ie. Sekuliarizatsiia i perekhod ot dvoichnoi modeli k troichnoi (Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Secularization and Transition from the Binary Model to the Ternary). Zvezda (S.-Petersburg), 1999, No. 1, 202-220; No. 2, 155-176.

"Iz totalitarnoi epokhi - v virtual'nuiu: vvedenie v Knigi knig" (From the Totalitarian Epoch to the Virtual One: Introduction into the Book of books). Kontinent, No.102, 1999, 355-366.

Ivan Solovyov. Messianskie rechi (Messianic Discourses). Publication and preface by Mikhail Epstein. Oktiabr (Moscow), 1998, No.7, 148-167.

"Internet kak slovesnost'" (Internet as Literature). Pushkin (Moscow),#1 (6-7), May 1, 1998, 44-46.

"Sinyavsky kak Myslitel'" (Sinyavsky as a Thinker). Zvezda (S.-Petersburg), 1998, No. 2, 151-171.

" " Nabroski k ekologii teksta (" " Toward the ecology of text). Kommentarii. Moscow-St.-Petersburg, No. 13, 1997, 3-41.

"Post-ateizm, ili Bednaia religiia" (Post-atheism, or Minimal Religion). Oktiabr (Moscow), 1996, No.9, 158-165.

"Istoki i smysl russkogo postmodernizma" (The genesis and significance of Russian postmodernism). Zvezda (S.-Petersburg), 1996, No.8,166-188.

"Poeziia kak sostoianie. Iz stikhov i zametok Ivana Solovyova. Publikatsiia i predislovie Mixaila Epshteina" (Poetry as a State-of-being. From the poems and notes of Ivan Solovyov. Publication and preface by Mikhail Epstein). Novyi mir, No. 8, 1996, 230-240.

"Mednyi vsadnik i zolotaia rybka. Poema-skazka Pushkina" (The Bronze Horseman and the Goldfish. The Epic Poem and the Fairy Tale by Pushkin). Znamia, No. 6, 1996, 204-215.

"Proto-, ili Konets postmodernizma" (Proto-, or The End of Postmodernism) Znamia, No. 3, 1996, 196-209.

"Posle karnavala, ili Vechnyi Venichka" (After the Carnival, or Eternal Venedikt Erofeev), Introduction to the book: Venedikt Erofeev. Ostav'te moiu dushu v pokoe: Pochti vsyo. M., Izd-vo AO "X.G.S.", 1995, 3-30.

Vozmozhnye miry Epshteina (The Possible Worlds of Epstein). Interview (by Ira Vrubel'-Golubkina, Aleksandr Gol'dshtein, Mikhail Grobman, recorded by A.Gol'dshtein). Zerkalo, No. 129, Tel Aviv, October 1995, 18-24.

"Poety - rifmy. Lermontov i Pasternak: mudrost' leta. Gyolderlin i Batiushkov: svet bezumiia" (Poets-rhymes. Lermontov and Pasternak: The Wisdom of Summer. Holderlin and Batiushkov: The Light of Madness). Strelets (Paris-Moscow-New-York). 2 (74), 1994, 198-207.

"Esse ob esse" (An Essay on Essay), Opyty. Zhurnal Esseistiki, Publikatsii, Retsenzii, Khroniki. No. 1. St.-Petersburg-Paris, 1994, 23-26.

"Roza Mira i Tsarstvo Antikhrista: o paradoksakh russkoi eskhatologii" (The Rose of the World and the Kingdom of the Antichrist: On the Paradoxes of Russian Eschatology), Kontinent (Moscow-Paris), No.79, 1994 (1), 283-332.

"Pustota kak priem. Slovo i izobrazhenie u Ilyi Kabakova" (Emptiness as a Device: Verbal and Visual Representations in Ilya Kabakov), Oktiabr' (Moscow), 1993, No.10, 177-192.

"Narod i nenarod. O natsional'nom i sotsial'nom v sovremennoj Rossii" (The People and Non-People. On the National and the Social in Contemporary Russia), Zvezda (S.-Petersburg), 1993 (1), 183-193.

"Razmyshleniia Ivana Solovyova ob Erose" (Ivan Solovyov’s Reflections on Eros), Chelovek (Moscow), 1991, No.1,195-212.

"Iskusstvo avangarda i religioznoe soznanie" (Art of Avant-Garde and Religious Consciousness), Novyi Mir (Moscow), l989, No. l2, 222-235 (transl. into Serbo-Croatian: "Tvo Ruske Avangarde," Knjizevna Kritika, 1990, No.1, 85-96).

Oblomov i Korchagin, Vremia i my (New York), No. 109, 1990, 141-160.

"Kontsepty. . . Metaboly. . . O novykh techeniiakh v poezii" (Concepts. . . Metaboles. . . On New Currents in Poetry), Oktiabr' (Moscow), l988, No. 4, l94-203; also in collection Vzgliad: kritika, polemika, publikatsii, Moscow, 1988, 171-196.

"Mif i chelovek. O khudozhestvennykh vozmozhnostiakh sovremennoi prozy" (Myth and Man: On the Artistic Possibilities of Contemporary Prose) (co-authored with H.Yukina-Epshtein), Novyi Mir, l98l, No. 4, 236-248 (trans. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin, 1982, No. 5).

"Obrazy detstva" (Images of Childhood) (co-authored with H. Yukina-Epshtein), Novyi Mir, l979, No. l2, 242-257 (trans. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin,1980, No. 6).

"Ot slova k zhizni. O literaturno-teoreticheskikh sbornikakh 'Kontekst'" (From Word to Life: on the literary-theoretical books in the series "Context"), Novyi mir, 1977, No. 6, 272-278 (trans. into German, Kunst und Literatur, Berlin, 1978, No. 1).

"Vsechelovechnost’ russkoi klassiki" (The All-Encompassing Humanism of the Russian Classics), Novyi mir, 1976, No. 4, 265-270.

ENCYCLOPEDIC ARTICLES:

IN GERMAN:

Tempozid. Prolog zu einer Auferstehung der Zeit. (Tempocide: A Prologue to the Resurrection of Time). Lettre International. Berlin. Heft 47 IY. Vj. December 1999, 65-72.

"Rußlands Trübsinn/ Über das Reisen," Ästhetik & Kommunication (Berlin), trans. Sabine Schweinitz. Heft 83. Jahrgang 22. September 1993, 51-56.

Eine neue Sentimentalität, in Lettre International. Paris-Rom-Madrid-Prag-Belgrad-Berlin. Heft 23. Winter 1993 (No.4), 94.

"Ein Katalog neuer Lyriken" (A Catalogue of New Poetries), Afterword (in Russian and German), in Moderne russische Poesie seit 1966, Eine Anthologie, Herausgegeben von Walter Thümler, Berlin: Oberbaum Verlag, 1990, 359-369.

"Mythen des alten Tages," in Kopfbahnhof. Almanach, No. 2. Das folsche Dasein. Sowjetische Kultur im Umbruch, trans. Hannelore Umbreit. Leipzig: Reclam-Verlag, 1990, 16-34.

IN FRENCH:

La Russie est un rêve, trans. Christine Zeytounian-Beloüs, Lettres Russes (Paris), No.14, 1994, 43-45.

La pratica dell'epitaffio, Il nuovo Giornale dei poeti (Rome), Anno XI - Numero 12, Dicembre 1995, 5-7.

Sull' "Iper-paternita letteraria," ovvero sull' intrigo poetico mondiale e le sue implicazioni russe. Giornale dei poeti. (Roma). Anno XIY-Numero 3. Marzo 1998, 3-4.

IN SERBO-CROATIAN:

Postmodernizam, komunizam, soc-art. S ruskoga prevela Ivana Matas. Knjizevna Smotra. Casopis za svjetsku knjizevnost. Zagreb. Hrvatsko filolosko drustvo. Godiste XXXI/ 1999 BROJ 112-113 (2-3), pp. 81-93

"Komediia idei" (The Comedy of Ideas), transl. Radmila Mechanin. ITAKA, Beograd, 1997, 1-13.

"Spasavanje kulture" (The Salvation of Culture, a talk with Z. Paunkovich), Postmoderna Aura, a special issue of Delo, Belgrade, Maj-Jul 1990, 4-25.

IN BULGARIAN:

Tempotsid: Prolog kym vyzkresyavaneto na vremeto((Tempocide: A Prologue to the Resurrection of Time). Leteratura. Sofia, #25, 2001, 44-56.

Postmodernism and Communism, transl. into Japanese by Takeshi Saito, in Mitsuyoshi Numano, Letter to Utopia: 20 Voices from World Literature. Tokyo. Kawade Shobo Shinsha Publishers, 1997, 214-223.

Tempocide, in Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future? Seoul: Kuil Sein, 2000, 88-153. [ISBN 89-87029-45-X 03300]

The thematic bibliography of M. Epstein's publications is available on the Web:

http://www.russ.ru/antolog/INTELNET/biblio.tem1.html

http://www.russ.ru/antolog/INTELNET/biblio.tem2.html

http://www.russ.ru/antolog/INTELNET/biblio.tem3.html

July 1995- Author of the Internet sites and projects:

The InteLnet (Intellectual Network, includes the Bank of Interdisciplinary Ideas in the Humanities), The Gallery of Russian Thinkers; The Overview of Russian Philosophy (the first web site devoted to Russian thought); Society for the Study of Russian Religious Thought; InteLnet Journals in the Humanities, Virtual Library (in English and Russian), and other sites:

February 2000. Award/Web Listing M. Epstein's site InteLnet: Russian Postmodernism (web projects in the humanities) was selected for permanent inclusion in the Online Subject Catalog of Academic Resources: http://www.realsci.com/infobox.cfm?Key=http://www.rpi.edu/~sapief/intelnet/index.html

CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected)

Presented papers at 57 conferences and symposia including:

"Diaspora: Spores for the Future Global Civilization," World Russian Forum, organized

by Media Group Kontinent, USA & Russia House, in cooper. with US-Russia

Business Council et al. New York, Marriott Marquis Hotel, May 5, 2001.

"The Apophatics of Courage: On the Duality of Virtues," Cold War/Hot Culture.

International Festival of Russian Art and Culture. America and Russian

Nonconformist Art. University of Nevada (Las Vegas), Nov. 17-20, 2000.

"The Role of the Humanities in Global Culture, " conf. "The Humanities and Global

Education," the Institute for Global Education. Concord (MA), Jan. 15-17, 2000.

"Translation, Interlation and Stereo-Poetry" and "The Rewards of Poetry, " presentations at "Three Lands, Three Generations: Eastern European Poetry Today," international conference and poetry festival, Northwestern University, October 27-30, 1999.

"Main Trends in Contemporary Russian Philosophy," World Congress of Philosophy,

Boston, Aug. 10-16, 1998.

"Russian Spirituality and the Theology of Negation," international conference

"Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Art and Society," University of Nevada,

Las Vegas, Nov. 24, 1997.

"Silence as a Category of Russian Culture," AAASS, Seattle, Nov. 21, 1997.

"Toward an Interdisciplinary Community: Collective Improvisations and the Realm of the Ordinary," inter. conf. "The Future of the Humanities. International School of Theory in Humanities." Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Jul. 30-Aug. 1, 1997.

"Allegories of Otherness," Conference on Interaction between Russian and American Cultures "Reflecting Cross-Culturally," University of Indiana (Bloomington),

Feb. 14, 1997.

"' ' Toward the Theory of Textual Environment," AAASS, Boston, Nov. 17, 1996.

"Postmodernism versus Postmodernity" (Roundtable on Russian Postmodernism).

AAASS, Boston, Nov. 16, 1996.

"Postmodernism and Communism." The symposium "Kamo griadeshi, Rossiia?"

["Where are you going, Russia?], The University of Tokyo, Japan, Sept.

14, 1996.

"'The Bronze Horseman' and 'The Tale of a Fisherman and a Fish': The Structural Affinity of the Two Works of Alexander Pushkin," AATSEEL, Chicago, Dec. 1995.

"The Philosophical Implications of Russian Conceptualism," AAASS, Washington, D.C., October 1995.

"The Language of Utopia and the Utopia of Language," Utopia and Anti-Utopia,

Moscow State University, January l989.

"New Approaches to the Relationship of Materialism and Idealism," The Vital

Problems of Contemporary Philosophy, The Moscow Philosophical

Society, February l988.

GUEST LECTURES (selected):

University of Missouri, Columbia, March 9, 1998.

"Experiments in Transculture: Rethinking Russian and American Models of Creative Communication," Bowling Green University (OH), October 1996.

2001 - Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures Selection Committee, to award prizes for two biennial cycles, 2001-02 and 2003-04.

Fall 1997-Present Executive Board, International School of Theory in the Humanities (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Dec. 1997 - Present Member, The Academy of Contemporary Russian Literature Moscow (Akademiia rossiiskoi sovremennoi slovesnosti, one of the 38 founding life-long members)

2000 - Research Council, the International Department

of Philosophy and Ethics, St.-Petersburg Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

1993-Present American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

Journal of Russian Thought Los Angeles: Charles

Schlacks, Jr., Publisher, University of Southern

California.

1991-Present Editorial board of the journal Common

Knowledge, New York: Oxford University Press.

2000- Present Editorial Council, the philosophical series "Tela mysli"

(Bodies of Thought), Aleteia Press, St.-Petersburg

2000-Present Editorial Board of the new on-line journal Rhizomes:

Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge and Strange

Attractions (Bowling Green University, OH, and

Washington State University, WA)

1995-Present Professional advisory board of Lost and Found. Perspectives on Brain, Emotions, and Culture, newsletter (Bowling Green, OH)

REVIEWS:

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

September 1997-Present Advisory Board, The Archive of the Jewish Immigrant Culture (New York)

1991-Present Author of more than 50 scripts for the cultural program "Across Barriers," Radio "Liberty" (New York)

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY:

Fall 2000 - Present Enhancement of the Institute of Liberal Arts Mission and Profile Committee (co-chaired by Dean of College and Dean of Graduate School)

Spring 1998-Spring 2001 Co-chair of the Gustafson Faculty Interdisciplinary Seminar (among topics: "The Fate of Disciplines and the Idea of the University")

Spring 1997, 1999-2002 Emory College Admissions and Scholarships Committee

Fall 1999 - Spring 2000 Digital Future Seminar (co-chaired by Chancellor and Dean of College)

Fall 1998-Spring 1999 Executive Committee of Comparative Literature

Spring 1998 Admissions Committee of Comparative Literature

Spring 1997 Faculty Seminar "Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion across the Disciplines"

5."Transculture and Creative Communication," session devoted to M. Epstein's work in cultural theory. Conference on College Composition and Communication. National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta, March 26, 1999. Organizer: Jim Zappen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Sponsored by the Department of English at Iowa State University and the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Composition, and Rhetoric Special Interest Group. The Web site devoted to this session: