Per Arne Bodin Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages

Per-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stockholm University. He defended his dissertation on the poetry of Pasternak at Stockholm University in 1976. He has written extensively on Russian, Polish and Ukrainian literatures. One special interest is the relation between Russian culture and Russian Orthodox tradition. His most recent books are Eternity and Time: Studies in Russian Literature and the Orthodox Tradition (2007) and Language, Canonization and Holy Foolishness: Studies in Post-Soviet Russian Culture and the Orthodox Tradition (2009). He has written several collections of essays in Swedish on Russian culture, literature and church history. He has also translated poetry from Russian, Polish and Ukrainian. At the moment he is working on two projects: Russian culture and linguistic violence and Russian cultural mythologemes in a post-Soviet world. He is member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and doctor honoris causa at Uppsala University.