Andrei Zorin is a Professor and Chair of Russian, Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford and the Professor and the Academic director of the program "Public History: Historical Knowledge in Modern Societies” at the Moscow School of Economics and Social Sciences (Shaninka). He received his degree of Ph. D. in 1983 and Habilitation in 2001 from Moscow State University. Since early 1990s, he has taught as visiting professor and lectured at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, University of California- Berkley, University of Helsinki (Finland), L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) a.o. Andrei has given key note talks papers at many international conferences in Russia, UK, USA, France, Italy, Austria etc. was the keynote speaker was the Faber Lecturer in European Studies at Princeton University (1995). He is the author and coauthor of several books on Russian literature and culture. His book His research interests: Russian Literature and Cultural History of XVIII early XIX centuries in European Context. Russian Literature and Ideology. Cultural History of Emotions. Late Soviet and Post Soviet Literature.