George M. Young

George M. Young, Ph.D. (Yale) is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of New England, where he has taught since 1979. Earlier he instructed Russian language and literature at Grinnell and Dartmouth Colleges (1965-1978). A scholar-poet, he has authored monographs on the Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Fedorov and on the American artist Charles H. Woodbury, contributed the Fedorov entry to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and published poems, translations, essays and reviews in numerous journals and anthologies.

Education:

• Ph.D., Yale University

Research & Creative Work:

Young’s research integrates Slavic philology, intellectual history, and American art criticism. His book-length studies illuminate the esoteric thought of Nikolai Fedorov—father of Russian Cosmism—and the marine paintings and pedagogical legacy of early-20th-century American artist Charles H. Woodbury. Parallel to scholarship, he maintains an active creative practice, publishing lyric poetry and Russian-to-English literary translations that foreground spiritual and ecological themes.

Since 1979 he and his wife have co-owned a fine-arts auction house specializing in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American and European paintings, activity that complements his art-historical writing and provides hands-on engagement with material culture of the period.