Jan Levchenko

Jan Levchenko, PhD (University of Tartu, Estonia) is a former professor at Higher School of Economics, Moscow (2009-2021) specialized in visual studies, film analysis and history of ideas. Since 2021 he’s been an editor-in-chief of the Kinoteksty book series at the New Literary Observer publishing house. He’s also a journalist in the Postimees Publishing Group, Tallinn, Estonia, and a professor of Briva Universita (Free University), Riga. His book The Other Science (2012) deals with the intellectual history of Russian Formalism, and the edited volume A Man with the Brilliant Arm (2023) is dedicated to the anniversary of Leonid Gaidai.