Biography
Yuri Leving is Professor of Russian Literature and Film (PhD summa cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Leving’s main field of interest is Russian literature, culture and film. He joined Dalhousie University over ten years ago, after teaching at The George Washington University. In 2013-2014, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany, and an affiliated research fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2015). Leving is the author of five monographs, and editor and co-editor of six books, as well as more than 100 articles on various aspects of Russian and comparative literature. He served as a commentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in five volumes (1999-2001), and was the curator for the exhibition “Nabokov’s Lolita: 1955-2005” in Washington, D.C., which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita. Leving is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal (since 2007). Professor Leving’s upcoming monographs are devoted to Joseph Brodsky’s graphic art and his literary life in Rome.
Education
Yuri Leving is Professor of Russian Literature and Film (PhD summa cum laude, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Leving’s main field of interest is Russian literature, culture and film. He joined Dalhousie University over ten years ago, after teaching at The George Washington University. In 2013-2014, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at Heidelberg University, Germany, and an affiliated research fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2015). Leving is the author of five monographs, and editor and co-editor of six books, as well as more than 100 articles on various aspects of Russian and comparative literature. He served as a commentator on the first authorized Russian edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Nabokov in five volumes (1999-2001), and was the curator for the exhibition “Nabokov’s Lolita: 1955-2005” in Washington, D.C., which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lolita. Leving is the founding editor of the Nabokov Online Journal (since 2007). Professor Leving’s upcoming monographs are devoted to Joseph Brodsky’s graphic art and his literary life in Rome.
Education
- Ph.D., Summa Cum Laude. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Slavic Studies, 2002
Dissertation: “Poetics of Urbanism in the Writings of Vladimir Nabokov”
(Advisors: Roman Timenchik, Elena Tolstoy) - Ph.D. (ABD). University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Department of Slavic Studies, with concentration in visual studies, 2001–2004 - M.A., M.Phil. with honors. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Slavic Studies, 1998 - B.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of English Literature; Department of Slavic Studies, 1996