Nicholas Rzhevsky Professor European Langs, Lits, and Cultures N4020 Melville Library Stony Brook, NY 11794-3359 nrzhevsky@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Nicholas Rzhevsky is Professor and Chair of the Department of European Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. His B.A. is from Rutgers University and he received his doctorate from Princeton University where he was a Title VI Fellow. His honors include four Fulbright-Hays fellowships, and grants from the U.S. Department of Education, International Research Programs, NEH, and IREX. Rzhevsky's interests focus on Russian literature and theater, ideology, and Russian intellectual history. Among his more recent publications are his edition of the Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Thresholds: An Introduction to Russian Culture (CD, 2001), and his edition of an Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996, 2nd ed., 1998).