# Mark Lipovetsky

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{{Short description|Russian-American critic (born 1964)}}
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'''Mark Naumovich Lipovetsky''' ({{langx|ru|Mарк Наумович Липовецкий}}; born  June 2, 1964) is a Russian [literary](/source/literary_criticism), [film](/source/film_criticism), and [cultural](/source/culture) critic who advocates the position that [postmodernism](/source/postmodernism) is replacing [socialist realism](/source/socialist_realism) as the dominant [art movement](/source/art_movement) in Russia. His major interests include 20th century [Russian literature](/source/Russian_literature), [Russia](/source/Russia)n [postmodernism](/source/postmodernism),<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web|title=Mark Lipovetsky|url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/mark-lipovetsky|website=[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars](/source/Woodrow_Wilson_International_Center_for_Scholars)|access-date=January 26, 2017|date=7 July 2011}}</ref> [fairy-tale](/source/fairy-tale)s, [Mikhail Bakhtin](/source/Mikhail_Bakhtin)'s [carnival](/source/carnival), and [totalitarian](/source/totalitarian) and post-[communist](/source/communist) [culture](/source/culture)s.

==Early life and career==
Lipovetsky was born in [Yekaterinburg](/source/Yekaterinburg), and he attended school there. He moved to the U.S. in 1996.<ref name="Calvert">{{cite web|title=The Calvert Journal — A guide to the New East|url=http://calvertjournal.com/contributors/show/2420/mark-lipovetsky|website=The Calvert Journal|access-date=January 26, 2017|language=en}}</ref> He was a professor within the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures and a joint faculty member of the Comparative Literature Program at the [University of Colorado at Boulder](/source/University_of_Colorado_at_Boulder).<ref name="Colorado">{{cite web|title=Mark Leiderman (Lipovetsky)|url=http://www.colorado.edu/gsll/mark-leiderman-lipovetsky|website=www.colorado.edu|access-date=January 26, 2017|language=en}}</ref> In 2019, he joined the Slavic Department at [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) with a goal of focusing on contemporary Russian culture within the [Harriman Institute](/source/Harriman_Institute).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bringing Contemporary Russian Literature to a New Audience|url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/bringing-contemporary-russian-literature-new-audience|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Columbia News|language=en}}</ref> In 2021, he and [Vadim N. Gladyshev](/source/Vadim_N._Gladyshev) received the George Gamow Award, named for the Russian-speaking physicist [George Gamow](/source/George_Gamow).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Philologist Mark Lipovetsky and biochemist Vadim Gladyshev receive 2021 George Gamow Award – Russian-American Science Association|url=http://www.rasa-usa.org/en/news/2021-gamow-award/|access-date=2021-11-01|language=en-US}}</ref>

Lipovestky is the author or co-author of five books and more than seventy articles. His works include ''Russian Postmodernist Fiction: Dialogue with Chaos'' (1999), ''Russian Postmodernism: The Essays of Historic Poetics'' (1997), ''Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama'' (2009), and ''Charms of the Cynical Reason'' (2011).<ref name="PVRev">{{cite journal|last1=Chernetsky|first1=Vitaly|title=Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama (review)|journal=[Theatre Journal](/source/Theatre_Journal)|date=November 13, 2010|volume=62|issue=3|pages=478–480|doi=10.1353/tj.2010.a401783 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/401783|access-date=January 26, 2017|issn=1086-332X|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Graham">{{cite journal|last1=Graham|first1=Seth|title=Review of Charms of the Cynical Reason: The Trickster's Transformation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture, Lipovetsky, Mark|journal=[The Slavonic and East European Review](/source/The_Slavonic_and_East_European_Review)|date=January 1, 2014|volume=92|issue=2|pages=325–327|doi=10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.2.0325|jstor=10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.2.0325}}</ref>

==See also==
* [Russian postmodernism](/source/Russian_postmodernism)

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