By Fables Alone: Literature and State Ideology in Late-Eighteenth Early-Nineteenth-Century Russia

About Andrei Zorin

Andrei Zorin is a cultural and literary historian. Before taking a Chair of Russian at Oxford (2004) he was a Professor at the Russian State University for Humanities Moscow and a Visiting Professor in many American universities including Harvard (1999 2003) Stanford (1995 2000) NYU (2001) and the University of Michigan (1999). Zorin is a member of several leading academic magazine boards including the Slavic Review (USA) Cahiers du Monde Russes (France) and the New Literary Review (NLO) (Russia). He has published more than 150 articles in Russian English French German and Italian. He is also the editor of Lydia Ginzburgs Prokhodiashchie kharaktery (Moscow 2011; with E. van Buskirk). By Fables Alone is a translation of his monograph Kormia dvuglavogo orla published in Russian in 2001.