Roman D. Timenchik

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PhD in Philology,

Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel)

PhD Thesis:

Aesthetic Principles of Anna Akhmatova's Pre-revolutionary Poetry

Research interests:

History of Acmeism; poetry of the Silver Age; the works of A. Akhmatova, N. Gumilev, O. Mandelstam, A. Blok, I. Annensky, as well as A. Pushkin, V. Nabokov, I. Brodsky. 

Professional Service: 

  • Member of the editorial board of and a contributor to the biographical dictionary “Russian Writers. 1800–1917”

  • Member of the editorial board of the journals Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie and Literaturnyi fakt.

  • Member of the editorial board of the “Literary Heritage”(1988–1991)

Awards and distinctions:

  • Awarded the Andrei Bely Prize (2006)

Teaching Activity:

  • Professor of Slavic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As a visiting professor, also lectured at the University of California.

 

Academic publications 

Monographs

  • The history of the Gumilev Cult. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ., 2018. 690 p.
  • Underground Classics: Innokenty Annensky. Nikolai Gumilev. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ.; Jerusalem, Gesharim Publ., 2017. 777 p.
  • The Last Poet. Anna Akhmatova in the 60s: in 2 vol. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ.; Jerusalem, Gesharim Publ., 2014.
  • So Why. Articles on Russian Literature of the Last Century. Moscow, Mosty kul'tury Publ.; Jerusalem, Gesharim Publ., 2008. 686 p.
  • Anna Akhmatova in the 1960s. Moscow, Vodolei Publishers; Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2005. 784 p.
  • Anna Akhmatova and Music: Research Essays. Leningrad, Sovetskii kompozitor Publ., 1989. 334 p. (with B.A. Kats)
  • “Keeping a Sad Story…”: On the Author and Readers of “The Bronze Horseman”. Moscow, Kniga Publ., 1985. 350 p. (Co-authored with A.L. Ospovat)

Selected Essays