Mark Lipovetsky is a professor and chair of the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. His research interests include Russian postmodernism, New Drama, Soviet literary and cinematic tricksters, Soviet underground culture as well as various aspects of post-Soviet culture. He is the author of twelve monographs and two hundred articles. He is one of the coauthors of the Oxford History of Russian Literature (2018). In 2022, Lipovetsky published a monograph A Guerilla Logos: The Project of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov (co-authored with Ilya Kukulin); he also curated the publication of Prigov’s five-volume collected works at NLO Press. He co-edited twenty collections of articles on Russian literature and culture of the 20th-21st centuries, including volumes on Dmitry Prigov, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Sharov, and the Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture (2024). His most recent publication is a critical anthology of Russian modernist poetry All the World on a Page (co-authored with Andrew Kahn) covering the period from 1908 to 2021(Princeton UP, 2025). Lipovetsky is a recipient of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages award for the outstanding contribution to scholarship (2014) and Andrey Belyi Prize (2019). At Columbia University, Lipovetsky runs the Contemporary Culture Series that includes talks, conversations, symposia, and conferences on significant aspects of contemporary Russophone culture. He organized such conferences as Blind Spots of the Counter-Canon: Soviet Underground Culture Revisited (2023) and Criminalized Again: Criminalized Again: Culture(s) of LGBTQIA+ in Search of Freedom (2024). Together with Serguei Oushakine (Princeton) he has been coordinating a series of workshops L50: Last 50 years of Russophone Culture and Archaists and Innovators: Re-Reading Viktor Shklovsky.