Alexander Moudrov
Alexander Moudrov was born on November 3, 1973, in Leningrad where he spent the first twenty years of his life. Educated primarily in the United States, he received his B.A. in English from Hunter College (2000), M.A. (2002) and M.Phil. (2004) in Comparative Literature from The Graduate Center (CUNY) where he is working on his dissertation on literary scandals and sensationalism. The project focuses on the works of Nabokov, Poe, Ovid, and their no longer known, but once famous and infamous contemporaries who considerably influenced these great writers. At the same time he is engaged in completing a short work on Bakhtin, tentatively titled "Re-Reading Bakhtin After the Patriot Act." Among the recent courses he taught at Queens College are "In Bad Company: Poe, Dostoyevsky, and Sensationalist Literature," "Rewriting & Recycling Mythology," "From Poe to Nafisi: Lolita in Context," "Selfhood and Identity in the Antiquity and the Middle Ages," and "Love, Eroticism, and Pornography in Antiquity." Click here for more information.
