Lev Loseff

Lev Loseff

Early life and education The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad. He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later. In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.

Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH.

Works Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail) On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature Poetika Brodskogo Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr) Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian.