11 Facts About Mikhail Epstein

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Mikhail Naumovich Epstein is a Russian-American literary scholar and essayist who is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, Atlanta, US.

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Mikhail Epstein has worked as a Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK, from 2012 to 2015, where he was the founder and Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University.

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Mikhail Epstein is an expert on Russian philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries and on thinkers like Nikolai Berdyaev.

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Mikhail Epstein writes essays on cultural, social, ethical and international issues.

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Mikhail Epstein was born in Moscow, USSR, and is of Jewish heritage.

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Mikhail Epstein graduated from the Philological faculty of Moscow State University in 1972.

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Mikhail Epstein has been a member of the Soviet Writers' Union since 1978 and the founder and director of the club "Image and Thought" and Laboratory of Contemporary Culture in Moscow .

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Mikhail Epstein write InteLnet and a number of other interdisciplinary web sites in the humanities.

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Mikhail Epstein had visiting professor appointments at Wesleyan University and University of Oregon at Eugene .

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Mikhail Epstein has won national and international prizes, including the Andrei Bely Prize ; The Social Innovations Award 1995 from the Institute for Social Inventions in London for his electronic Bank of New Ideas; the International Essay Contest set up by Lettre International and Weimar – Cultural City of Europe 1999; and the Liberty Prize, awarded for his outstanding contribution in the development of Russian-American cultural connections .

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Mikhail Epstein has published 37 books in English and Russian, and 19 books have been into German, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Korean.

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