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Professor Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996) and of the "Russian" Booker Prize for nonfiction (1998).
Dr. Gasparov, the foremost authority on Russian poetics and comparative study of verse, is the Research Director of the Division of Stylistics and Poetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and Professor at the Russian State University of Humantities. He was a visiting scholar in the Department in Winter Term 1999, teaching "Poetics of the Verse Text: The Techniques of Analysis and Interpretation" and conducting joint research with Professor Ronen on the critical edition of the poetry of Ossip Mandel'shtam. Dr. Gasparov is the author of hundreds of articles and scores of books on classical and modern philology and poetics, especially Russian verse. His most recent books are "A History of European Versification" (Oxford, 1996), "Izbrannye trudy" [Selected Works] (in three volumes, Moscow, 1997),and "Zapisi i vypiski" [Records and Excerpts, previously serialized in Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie] (Moscow, 1999). He has translated into Russian many masterpieces of European poetry, including all of Pindar's odes, Ovid's "Ars amandi", and Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso". He also published a remarkable book for children: "Zanimatel'naia Gretsiia" [Greece for Fun].