Dennis Sobolev

Prof. Dennis Sobolev is a literary scholar and writer. His academic interests include the theories of culture, literary theory, philosophical approaches to literature, phenomenology, metaphor and allegory, Victorian and Modernist poetry, religious literature, philosophical science fiction, the literatures of the Jewish diaspora and interculturality.

Born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Sobolev received his Ph.D. in English literature and literary theory from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of ten books, has published numerous poems, short stories and essays, as well as more than eighty articles on literature and culture (almost all of them are full-length), which have been published in eleven countries. His academic articles have appeared in "New Literary History," "Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association," "Voprosy Literatury," "SEL: Studies in English Literature 1600-1900," "Victorian Literature and Culture," "Christianity and Literature," "English: the Journal of the English Association," "English Studies," "Connotations," "Texas Studies in Literature and Language," "Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism," "Mejdunarodnyi Journal Issledovanii Kultury," "The Hopkins Quarterly," "The Victorian Newsletter," "The Explicator," and other journals, as well as numerous collections of academic essays. Many of these journals belong to the most highly esteemed ones in the field of literary studies. The collection of essays "Sovremennyi Izrail: Yazyki, Obshestvo, Kultura" (coedited by Nosenko-Stein and Sobolev) received a special prize from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science.

Dennis Sobolev has served as the Chair of the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, the Director of Graduate Studies in Literature, the Chair of the Steering Committee for establishing Cultural Studies Program, as well as other administrative positions; for almost ten years he taught at the B.A. Honors program at the University of Haifa; he received the Distinguished Teacher Award on two occasions. He has been and is a member of various academic and administrative committees at the level of the department, the faculty, and the university. Sobolev is a member of the editorial boards and councils of the academic journals "Voprosy Literatury," "Dappim," "Iudaica Russica," "Mejdunarodnyi Journal Issledovanii Kultury," "Praktiki i Interpretatsii" and "Journal Integrativnyh Issledovanii Kultury," as well as two literary journals, "Ierusalimsky Journal" and "Article." In addition, he was a member of the editorial board of the highly esteemed Russian-Jewish literary journal "22" (not published anymore). Sobolev is frequently asked to review academic books, scholarly articles, which are submitted to different journals and the collections of essays, Ph.D. and M.A. theses, literary texts, as well as the research projects submitted to the Israeli Science Foundation (affiliated with the Israeli Academy of Science). Three times, he served as a member of literary prizes committees. Sobolev has delivered numerous presentations at different academic conferences (among them as a keynote speaker, or giving an opening lecture), as well as invited video-lectures. He has co-organized ten conferences, focusing on various subjects. In addition, he has given more than 40 invited talks and popular lectures (including the national theater Habima), as well as talks on radio and TV.

He is the author of the novel "Jerusalem" (shortlisted for the 2006 Russian Booker Prize) and the book "Res Judaica," which analyzes a broad spectrum of cultural encounters between Christian and Jewish civilizations (2007). His fundamental study –"The Concepts Used to Analyze ‘Culture’: A Critique of Twentieth-Century Ways of Thinking" (2010) – is devoted to the clarification and analysis of the concepts of the individual and culture, as they have gradually appeared from the development of literary criticism, theoretical historiography, anthropology, semiotics, ideological criticism, and cultural studies over the course of the twentieth century. His book "The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Essay in Semiotic Phenomenology" (2011) analyzes the entire Hopkins oeuvre, as well as proposes a new approach to the phenomenological analysis of literature. Sobolev's 2016 novel – "Mt. Carmel Legends: Fourteen Tales of Love and Time" – has been nominated for the National Bestseller Book Prize and the ABS Prize (the most important prize for the literature of the fantastic in the Russian language). His most recent poetic book "Through" and his novel "On the Doorstep" were published in 2020. His sixteen-partite novel "The Resurrection" has been published in 2021 (930 pp.).

In 2021, Sobolev has been elected an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Union of Writers.

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