Lev Loseff (; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator. Early life and education The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad. He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University. Literary career Loseff immigrated to the U.S. in 1976. He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later. In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature. Loseff died on May 6, 2009, in Hanover, NH. Works Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) Iosif Brodskii: Trudy i dni (co-edited with Petr Vail) On the Beneficence of Censorship: Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature Poetika Brodskogo Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (co-edited with Valentina Polukhina) A Sense of Place: Tsarskoe Selo and Its Poets (co-edited with Barry Scherr) Eight collections of poetry and prose in Russian. References External links http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/prim/losev0.html http://www.rvb.ru/np/publication/02comm/10/07losev.htm Photographs of Loseff Book review of Loseff's biography of Joseph Brodsky. Interview with Loseff in Ogonyok magazine. http://levloseff.blogspot.com/ "Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life by Lev Loseff" in Quarterly Conversation 1937 births 2009 deaths American literary critics American male poets Jewish poets Dartmouth College faculty American people of Russian-Jewish descent Russian Jews Russian literary critics Saint Petersburg State University alumni University of Michigan alumni Russian male poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers