Mikhail Epstein

Mikhail N. Epstein is Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory and Co–Director of the Center for Humanities Innovation. He was born in Moscow where he worked as a researcher at the Institute of World Literature and directed the Laboratory of Modern Culture.

In 1990 he moved to the USA and for twenty years taught at Emory University (Atlanta) as S. C. Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature. He has authored 29 books published in English and Russian and 16 books translated into German, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian and Korean. He has authored more than 600 articles and essays, many of which have been translated and published in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, and Ukranian. Full list of publications includes about 700 items.

His latest projects are devoted to the development of new approaches in the humanities and their impact on humanity's future.