John Malmstad

Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Barker Center 378 - 495-4032 - malmstad[at]fas.harvard.edu

Education: B.A. 1963 Northwestern; M.A., Ph.D. 1969 Princeton.

Interests: Russian poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries; the culture of the Silver Age; the Russian avant-garde.

Current Courses:

Fall:
• Slavic 98 (Junior Tutorial)
• Slavic 153 (Short Russian Prose)
• Slavic 180 (Russian Symbolist Poetry)

Spring:
• Freshman Seminar 30l (George Balanchine: Russian-American Master)
• Slavic 285r (Modern Russian Literature: Seminar)

Selected Works:
• Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art (with Nikolay Bogomolov) (1998)
• Andrey Bely: Spirit of Symbolism (1987)
• transl. (with Robert Maguire) of Bely's Petersburg (1978)
• editions of the works of Bely, Kuzmin, and Khodasevich
• articles on modern Russian poetry and Russian avant-garde.

Work in Progress:
• A biography of Andrey Bely
• The correspondence of Bely and E.K. Metner.