Evgeny Aleksandrovich Dobrenko

Evgeny Dobrenko is currently a Karl Lowenstein Fellow in political science at Amherst College. He was a Fellow at the Stanford University Humanities Center in 1997-98. Previously, Dobrenko was Visiting Associate Professor at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. from Odessa State University in 1987.

Among Dobrenko's major publications are:

bulletThe Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature. Trans. Jesse M. Savage. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
bulletSocialist realism without shores, ed. by Thomas Lahusen and Evgeny Dobrenko. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997)
bulletMetafora vlasti: Literatura stalinskoi epokhi v istoricheskom osveshchenii. Munich, 1993.
bulletIzbavlenie ot mirazhei: sotsrealizm segodnia. Comp., ed. E. A. Dobrenko. (Moscow: Sov. pisatel, 1990)

The title of his paper at the Stanford Conference will be "Between History and the Past: The Art of Re-Writing."