MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center

Tomas Venclova

Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures
MacMillan Center, European Studies Council

Current Courses
Symbolism, Acmeism, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Brodsky, Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry, Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry, Communism and Literature

Recent Publications
Niezniszczalny rytm: Eseje o literaturze (Indestructible Rhythm: Essays on Literature), Sejny: Zeszyty Literackie-Pogranicze, 2003

Stat’i o Brodskom (Essays on Brodsky), Moscow: Baltrus-Novoe izdatel’stvo, 2005.

Vilniaus Vardai (Vilnius Personalities), Lithuania, 2006; English version forthcoming, 2009.

Work in Progress
A cultural history of Vilnius/Wilno/Vilne
Joseph Brodsky’s life and art
Russian emigre poet, Vladimir Korvin-Piotrovsky

1960 Diploma in Philology, University of Vilnius; 1966-71 Graduate Study in Semiotics and Russian Literature, Tartu University; Ph.D. 1985, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale University

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