GEORGE KOVALENKO is a comparative literary theorist, poet, and translator, currently a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. He works on problems in historical poetics, comparative modernisms, and philosophical aesthetics. His present research is focused on the theory of the modern lyric in Western and Soviet Marxism. Articles of his have appeared or are forthcoming in New German Critique and The Wallace Stevens Journal. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Leo Baeck Institute, the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at the University of Southern California, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, he was most recently a Visiting Researcher at the New York Public Library’s Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities. His poetry has appeared in such venues as The American Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Lana Turner. His translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Asymptote, Copper Nickel, and The Southern Review. He holds an M.F.A. from NYU and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver, where he served as Poetry and Translations Editor for Denver Quarterly. He lives in New York City.