John Malmstad

Ph.D., Princeton, 1969
Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Faculty Associate and Executive Committee, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Contact Information
Barker Center 378
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge MA 02138
617.495.4032
malmstad@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/faculty/john_malmstad.html

Research Interests
Russian poetry of the 19th- and 20th-century; the culture of the “Silver Age”; Russian avant-garde.

Current Projects
Working on a biography of Andrei Bely, along with examining Bely’s correspondence with E. K. Metner.

Selected Publications
Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art, co-authored with Nikolay Bogomolov (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998).

Andrey Bely: Spirit of Symbolism (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987).

Trans. (with Robert Maguire) of Bely’s Petersburg (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978)