Dmitry Bosnak received his doctoral degree in Russian literature from the Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod. He taught Russian and European literatures at the Linguistics University and the Higher School of Economics in Russia. He has engaged in exploration of the 20th-century Russian literature from the perspectives of European philosophy, focusing on such topics as Ressentiment, the experience of grief in art and literature, conceptualizations of will and love, phenomenological and religious perspectives on transformative experience, the eluding boundary between humanity and animality, etc. His research has been strongly influenced by the phenomenological ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin. In 2011-12, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University investigating the reception of Bakhtin in North America. His research interests are currently shifting to philosophy, particularly the phenomenology of the event and a comparative analysis of Heidegger and Bakhtin.
