NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

Vladimir Marchenkov, PhD, Professor of Philosophy of Art at the Ohio University School of Interdisciplinary Arts, author of The Orpheus Myth and the Powers of Music (Pendragon 2009), translator of Aleksei Losev’s Dialectics of Myth (Routledge 2003), and author as well as consulting editor on Russian philosophy for the award-winning Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition (Thomson Gale 2006). Marchenkov edited two volumes of essays: Between Histories: Art’s Dilemmas and Trajectories (Hampton Press 2013), and Arts and Terror (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014), and co-edited with Stefan Bird-Pollan a collection of essays on Hegel’s Political Aesthetics: Art in Modern Society (Bloomsbury, 2020). He has published essays, articles, and chapters in a wide range of academic venues in the U.S., Russia, UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, and Kazakhstan. He serves as an Associate Editor of Studies in East European Thought (Springer). In 2016 he co-founded with Stefan Bird-Pollan (University of Kentucky Lexington) the Hegel Roundtable and with Alyssa DeBlasio (Dickinson College) the ASEEES Working Group on Philosophy and Intellectual History. He teaches courses on philosophy of art, history of aesthetics, world aesthetic ideas, and art and morality. He is currently writing a book on Three Borises: Poetic Truth against the Will to Power.