Edith Clowes

Edith W. Clowes is Professor at the University of Virginia and teaches Russian language, literature, and culture and Czech literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her primary research and teaching interests span the interactions between literature, philosophy, religion, and utopian thought. More recently, she has turned to the question of imagined geography and perceptions of space and place in contemporary Russian culture. Clowes is the author of several books on...See more

Edith W. Clowes is Professor at the University of Virginia and teaches Russian language, literature, and culture and Czech literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her primary research and teaching interests span the interactions between literature, philosophy, religion, and utopian thought. More recently, she has turned to the question of imagined geography and perceptions of space and place in contemporary Russian culture. Clowes is the author of several books on Russian literature and culture, including The Revolution of Moral Consciousness: Nietzsche in Russian Literature, 1890-1914 (translated into Russian by Akademicheskii Proekt, St. Petersburg, 1999). See less