Author Biography
Mikhail Iampol’skii (b. 1949) is a leading scholar in film theory, semiotics, and cultural studies. A graduate of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, he began his career teaching French before joining the Research Institute of Film Art in 1974. His early research focused on the intersection of philosophy and education, culminating in a PhD in Pedagogical Sciences in 1977. Iampol’skii has taught at prestigious institutions, including Harvard University, the University of Lausanne, and the Moscow State Institute of Cinema Arts (VGIK), where he delivered influential courses on film theory. In 1991, he was named a Getty Scholar at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities. Since 1992, Iampol’skii has been a professor at New York University, teaching Comparative Literature and Russian and Slavic Studies. A prolific writer, he has authored works on film history, semiotics, and visual phenomenology. He is a member of the editorial boards of “Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie” and “Seans”.