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Yuri Leving is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. He holds a PhD (Summa Cum Laude) from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002) and completed PhD coursework at the University of Southern California with a concentration in Film Studies.
Leving's research spans contemporary Russian literature and film, Eastern European cinema, visual arts, and digital humanities. His scholarly approach often examines the visual poetics of text across various media forms, from book covers to children's animation and digital platforms. He has established himself as a leading scholar in Nabokov, Brodsky, and Mandelstam studies through numerous monographs and edited collections.
His notable works include Nabokov in Motion: Modernity and Movement (2022), Poetry in a Dead Loop: Mandelstam and Aviation (2021), and the three-volume Joseph Brodsky in Rome series (2020). Leving has also produced three documentary films exploring Russian literary figures: The Roman Elegy of Joseph Brodsky (2020), Nabokov's Magic Lantern (2021), and Akhmatova's Orphans. Dissassembly (2024).
- Short-listed for Andrey Bely Literary Prize (2004)
- AATSEEL award for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship (2017)
- Guggenheim Fellow (2023)
Leving founded and edits the Nabokov Online Journal and has served as an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at Heidelberg University and an affiliated research fellow at the American Academy in Rome. His current projects include analyzing Russian film title sequences, working on a monograph about Brodsky's drawings, and creating a fictional work blending art and narrative.
