Evgenii Slivkin

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Yevgeny Slivkin - I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. I received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Gorky Institute for Literary Studies of the Union of Soviet Writers in Moscow (often called the Literary Institute). I worked as a screen writer and a journalist for the Editorial Office of Artistic Broadcasting of the St. Petersburg Television Company. After moving to the US I taught Russian literature and language at Georgetown University and George Washington University in Washington D.C. Upon earning my Ph.D. in Slavic languages and Literatures from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I taught Russian literature and language at Grand Valley State University in Michigan and upper-division Russian language courses and Russian area studies at the Defense Language Institute in California. Currently I teach Contemporary Russian Prose and Contemporary Russian Poetry at the University of Oklahoma. I am the author of three collections of poetry published in Russia and a number of scholarly articles in American, European, and Russian academic journals. My poems are included in several significant anthologies of Contemporary Russian poetry. I am now working on a monograph entitled "The Genesis and Variations of the Image of the Medieval Knight in Russian Literature of the Nineteenth century" for which I conducted preliminary research in my doctoral dissertation.