Mark Leiderman
Associate Professor of Russian, Undergraduate Associate Chair and Russian Program Head

Mark Leiderman (pen name: Lipovetsky) teaches courses on Russian literature and culture of the 20th century. 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 Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos (1999), and Modern Russian Literature: 1950s-1990s, (co-authored with Naum Leiderman, 2001; second edition in 2003, third edition in 2006). He has published extensively on issues of literary and cultural history, theory and criticism in such journals as: Russian Review, Slavic and East European Journal, Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, Iskusstvo kino, Russian Literature, and others. Together with Marina Balina (Illinois Wesleyan University), he edited the volume ofDictionary of Literary Biography: Russian Writers Since 1980, (published by Gale Group in 2003). An anthology of Russian and Soviet wondertales, Politicizing Magic, co-edited by Lipovetsky together with Marina Balina and Helena Goscilo (University of Pittsburgh) has been published by Northwestern University Press in 2005. Currently Lipovetsky is working on a new book on Russian postmodernism and on a monograph on new Russian drama of the 1990s-2000s.

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