David Bethea

professor, slavic languages, U of Wisconsin

David Bethea is a Vilas Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned his Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Kansas. His research interests include: Pushkin and his era, modern Russian poetry, Russian religious thought and cultural mythology, Russian emigre literature, Anglo-American vs. Russian modernism, 20th century Russian/Slavic literary theory. Professor Bethea has also written several books including: *Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile* (1994), and *Realizing Metaphors: Alexander Pushkin and the Life of the Poet* (1998).