Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University (Atlanta, USA). He has authored 16 books and approximately 400  essays and articles, translated into 14 languages.   His areas of specialization include postmodern  cultural theory, Russian literature and intellectual history, contemporary philosophical and religious thought, ideas and electronic media, and interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities. He was the founder and director of  the Laboratory of Contemporary Culture in Moscow.  Ph.D., Academy of Sciences (USSR). 

Mikhail Epstein moved to the USA in 1990 and was fellow of  Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington D.C.) in  1990-91.  He joined Emory faculty in 1990. In 1992-94 he received grant from National Council for Soviet and East European Research to work on the history of Russian thought of the late Soviet period.  His recent books in English include: After the Future:  Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture,  Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture, and  Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with Ellen Berry). He has authored 16 books and approximately 400  essays and articles, translated into 14 languages. He has authored inteLnet and a number of other interdisciplinary web sites in the humanities. 

He has won national and international prizes, including Andrei Bely prize (S.-Petersburg, 1991); The Social Innovations Award 1995 from the Institute for Social Inventions (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 Liberty Prize, awarded annually to two outstanding Russian cultural figures living in America (New York, 2000). 

Home page: http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/Index.html

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 In library catalogs, the majority of publications are listed under the name Mikhail Epshtein. 20 books published in English and Russian, and 10 books translated into German, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian and Korean. Articles and essays have been translated and published in 14 languages: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian. Full list of publications includes more than 400 items.

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
In English:

1. Cries in the New Wilderness: from the Files of the Moscow Institute of Atheism. Trans. and intr. by Eve Adler. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2002, 236 pp.

2.Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication (with Ellen Berry). New York: St. Martin's Press (Scholarly and Reference Division), 1999, 340 pp. (of 23 chapters, 16 are written by this author).

3. Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, in the series Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture, and Society, vol. 3). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999, 528 pp. (of 24 chapters, 16 are written by this author). Hardcover and paperback editions.

4. After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture (a volume in the series Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture,  introd. and transl. by Anesa Miller-Pogacar), Amherst: The University of  Massachusetts Press,  1995, 392 pp. Hardcover and paperback  editions. Electronic edition, Boulder, Colo.: NetLibrary, Inc., 2000.

5. Relativistic Patterns in Totalitarian Thinking: An Inquiry into the Language of Soviet Ideology. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Occasional Paper, No.243. Washington: The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1991,94 pp.

In Russian
SCHOLARLY BOOKS

6. Znak probela: O budushchem gumanitarnykh nauk (Mapping Blank Spaces: On the Future of the Humanities). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2004, 864 pp.

7. Proektivnyi filosofskii slovar'. Novye terminy i poniatiia (A Projective Philosophical Dictionary. New Terms and Concepts).  St.-Petersburg: Aleteia, 2003, 512 pp. (coeditor with G. L. Tulchinsky, author of the Preface and of 90 entries out of overall 165).

8. Filosofiia vozmozhnogo. Modal'nosti v myshlenii i kul'ture (The Philosophy of the Possible: The Modalities in Thought and Culture). St.-Petersburg: Aleteia, 2001, 334 pp.

9. Postmodern v Rossii: literatura i teoriia (The Postmodern in Russia: Literature and Theory). Moscow: LIA Elinina, 2000, 370 pp.
 2nd edition, reworked and expanded: Postmodern v russkoi literature (The Postmodern in Russian Literature). Moscow: Vysshaia shkola, 2005, 485 pp.

10. Vera i obraz. Religioznoe bessoznatel'noe v russkoi kul'ture XX veka (Faith and Image: The Religious Unconscious in Twentieth Century Russian Culture), Tenafly (New Jersey): Hermitage Publishers, 1994, 270 pp.

11. 'Priroda, mir, tainik vselennoi. . .' Sistema peizazhnykh obrazov v russkoi poezii ('Nature, the World, the Mystery of the Universe...': The System of Landscape Images in Russian Poetry). Moscow: Vysshaia Shkola [the central university press of Russia], l990, 304 pp.

12. Paradoksy novizny. O literaturnom razvitii XIX-XX vekov (The Paradoxes of Innovation: On the Development of Literature in the l9th and 20th Centuries). Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel', l988, 4l6 pp.

BOOKS OF CULTURAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

13-14. Vse esse, v 2 tt., t. 1. V Rossii, 1970-e – 1980-e;  t. 2. Iz Ameriki, 1990-e-2000-e (All Essays, or All is Essay, in 2 volumes, vol. 1. In Russia, 1970s-1980s; vol. 2. From America, 1990s-2000s). Ekaterinburg: U-Faktoriia, 2005 (already published), 544 pp. + 704 pp.

15. Bog detalei. Narodnaia dusha i chastnaia zhizn' v Rossii na iskhode imperii (A Deity of Details: The Public Soul and Private Life at the Twilight of the Russian Empire).  New York:  Slovo/Word, 1997, 248 pp. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Moscow: LIA Elinina, 1998, 240 pp.

16.  Na granitsakh kul'tur. Rossiiskoe - amerikanskoe - sovetskoe (On the Borders of Cultures: Russian - American - Soviet). New York, Slovo/Word, 1995, 343 pp.

17. Novoe sektantstvo: tipy religiozno-filosofskikh umonastroenii v Rossii, 1970-80-e gody (New Sectarianism: The Varieties of Religious-Philosophical Consciousness in Russia, the 1970s-1980s). Holyoke (Massachusetts): New England Publishing Co., 1993, 179 pp.  2nd edition, reprint,  Moscow: Labirint,  1994, 181 pp.
 
18. Velikaia Sov'. Filosofsko-mifologicheskii ocherk (Great Sov'. A Philosophical-Mythological Essay). New York: Word/Slovo, 1994, 175 pp.

19. Ottsovstvo (Fatherhood. An Essay), Tenafly (New Jersey): Hermitage Publishers, 1992, 160 pp.; Ottsovstvo. Metafizicheskii dnevnik (Fatherhood. A Metaphysical Journal),  2nd revised edition, St.-Petersburg: Aletheia, 2003, 248 pp.

20. Novoe v klassike. Derzhavin, Pushkin, Blok v sovremennom vospriiatii (The Classics Renovated: Derzhavin, Pushkin, and Blok in Contemporary Perception). Moscow: Znanie, l982, 40 pp.

In German:

21. Tagebuch fЯr Olga. Chronik einer Vaterschaft. Aus dem Russischen von Otto Markus. Munich: Roitman Verlag, 1990, 256 pp.

In Serbo-Croatian:

22. Blud rada: Eseji, katalozi i mali traktati (Labor of Lust: Essays, Catalogs and Little Treatises), transl. from Russian by Radmila Mecanin.  Novi Sad: Stylos, 2001, 248 pp.

23. Novo Sektashtvo  Tipovi religiozno-filozofskikx pogleda na svet u Rusiju (70-ikh i 80-ikh godina xx veka). (New Sectarianism: The Varieties of Religious-Philosophical Consciousness in Russia, the 1970s-1980s), transl. from Russian by Draginia Ramadanski. Novi Sad: Aurora, 2001, 220 pp.

24. Ochinstvo (Fatherhood), transl.  from Russian  by Draginia Ramadanski. Novi Sad: Aurora, 2001,  224 pp.

25. Ruska kultura na raskrscu. Sekularizacija i prelaz sa dualnog na trojicni model. (Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Secularization and Transition from the Binary Model to the Trinitary One), transl. from Russian by Radmila Mecanin. Beograd, Narodna knjiga/Alfa, Beograd, 1999, 100 pp.

26. Vera i lik. Religiozno nesvesno u ruskoi kulturi XX veka. (Faith and Image: The Religious Unconscious in Twentieth Century Russian Culture). Transfrom Russian Radmila Mechanin. Novi Sad: Matitsa srpska, 1998, 356 pp.

27. Postmodernizam (Postmodernism). S ruskog prevela Radmila Mechanin. Beograd: Zepter Book World, 1998,  157 pp.

28. Esej (Essay). [Theory of Essay as a Genre]. S ruskog prevela  Radmila Mechanin.Beograd: Narodna knjiga-Alfa, Biblioteka Pojmovnik, 1997, 172 pp.
 

In Hungarian:

29. A posztmodern Оs OroszorszКg (Postmodernism in Russia). Budapest, 2001,  340 pp.

In Korean:

30. Postmodernism in Russia. Trans. from Russian and English by Cho Jun-Rae et al.   Seoul, forthcoming in 2005.