Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
2708 Hall of Graduate Studies, 432-1304
tomas.venclova@yale.edu

Education
1960 Diploma in Philology, University of Vilnius; 1966-71 Graduate Study in Semiotics and Russian Literature, Tartu University; Ph.D. 1985, Slavic Languages & Literatures, Yale University

Interests
19th- and 20th-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Lithuanian literature; poetry

Current Courses
Symbolism, Acmeism, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Brodsky, Nineteenth-Century Russian Poetry, Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry, Communism and Literature

Recent Publications
Niezniszczalny rytm: Eseje o literaturze (Indestructible Rhythm: Essays on Literature), Sejny: Zeszyty Literackie-Pogranicze, 2003.

Stat'i o Brodskom (Essays on Brodsky), Moscow: Baltrus-Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2005.

Encyclopedia of Vilnius personalities (around 600 names, XIII-XX c.), forthcoming 2006, Vilnius.

Work in Progress
A cultural history of Vilnius/Wilno/Vilne
Joseph Brodsky's life and art