Stefano Garzonio

Stefano Garzonio

Guest Speaker

Professor of Slavic Studies, Pisa University

Stefano Garzonio is Professor of Slavic Studies (Russian language and literature) at Pisa University. In 1999-2009 he was the President of the Italian Association of Slavists (AIS). He presently serves as Vice President of the Executive Committee of the International Council for Central and East European Studies. Garzonio is author of many books, articles and other publications about the theory and history of Russian verse, Russian literature of the 18th century, poetry of the Silver Age and the history of Russian emigration in the 20th century. He is the editor of the comprehensive anthology Poesia Russa (2004) and the author of a forthcoming collection of his own verse originally written in Russian. Stefano Garzonio translated and annotated works by Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Mayakovsky, Georgy Ivanov and other Russian authors.