GEORGE KOVALENKO is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stony Brook University. His research encompasses European and American poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, Marxism, continental philosophy (esp. German idealism and its afterlives), and historical poetics. Articles of his have or will soon appear in New German Critique, Poetics Today, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. He is editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Marxist Literary Theory (under contract, Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of the volumes The Frankfurt School and Poetics (under contract, Routledge) and Hildegarde Flanner: On the Life and Work of an American Master (under contract, The Unsung Masters Series). His work has received financial support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Leo Baeck Institute, the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library at the University of Southern California, and he currently holds visiting scholarships in New York University’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia and the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers 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, where he served as Poetry and Translations Editor for Denver Quarterly. He lives in New York City.