Andrey Zorin

Russian historian and philologist, a specialist in the history of Russian culture and intellectual history. Literary scholar and literary critic. Doctor of Philological Sciences, professor at Oxford University (since 2004), at the Russian State University for the Humanities, and at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Son of the writer L. G. Zorin. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University (1978). Candidate of Philological Sciences (1983). Since 1993, associate professor, and since 2001, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. In 1992, he was a fellow of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University (USA). Visiting professor at Stanford University (1995, 2000), the University of Michigan (1999), Harvard University (1999, 2003), New York University (2001), and Wesleyan University (2004). By 2012, he had taught at nineteen universities in four countries. He is currently also a professor in the Department of the Humanities and academic director of programs at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). Since 2011, he has been a member of the Academic Council of RANEPA. He took part in writing the screenplays for several historical films. Member of the editorial boards of the journals Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Slavic Review (USA), and Cahiers du Monde Russe (France). Member of the Academy of Modern Russian Literature (1997). Author of the monograph Feeding the Two-Headed Eagle… (2001), on the ties between Russian state ideology and literature at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1999, he expressed regret over the impossibility of Boris Yeltsin’s being elected to a third term. In the field of higher education, he is an admirer of the American Liberal Arts system.