Profile
Basil Lvoff (Vasily Lvov) is a literary theoretician, writer, translator of poetry, and former journalist. He defended his doctoral dissertation devoted to Russian Formalism and Digital Humanities in the Comparative Literature Program at CUNY Graduate Center. His kandidatskaiadissertation focused on the unique combination of scholarship, creative and journalistic writing in the theories of the Russian Formalists, and was defended at Moscow State University's School of Journalism, the Department of Literary Criticism. In addition to scholarly articles—published under the name of Basil Lvoff in English and Vasily Lvov in Russian—he has had his creative work published in The New Review (Novy zhurnal), Zvezda, Novy mir, Interpoeziya, Gastarbajter, Inventory, National Translation Month, and elsewhere. Two of Basil Lvoff’s student-engagement projects in particular bring together his scholarly and creative expertise: Moving Lyrics, a poetry/film workshop and festival (https://movinglyrics.wordpress.com/), and Shakespeare: Homecoming—the students’ experimental translations of Shakespeare’s Russian translations back into English.