George Kovalenko is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stony Brook University. He specializes in 19th and 20th century literature and culture, Critical Theory, Marxism, continental philosophy, and historical poetics. He is at work on two interrelated book projects: one examines the relationship between poetry and the dialectic in the Marxist philosophical tradition; a second develops T. W. Adorno’s incipient theory of film through a study of Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura.

Articles related to this work have appeared in New German Critique, Poetics Today, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. His current editorial projects include The Frankfurt School and Poetics (Routledge), The Cambridge Companion to Marxist Literary Theory (Cambridge), and Hildegarde Flanner: On the Life and Work of an American Master (The Unsung Masters Series), as well as essay clusters or special issues of Critical Inquiry, Modernism/modernity, and Studies in East European Thought.

The recipient of fellowships and grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Leo Baeck Institute, and the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at the University of Southern California, he has held visiting scholarships with New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University, and the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. His poetry and translations have appeared in such venues as The American Poetry Review, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Oxford Poetry, and The Southern Review. He holds an M.F.A. from NYU and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver.