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"Of Personation: Imposture and Authenticity Effect"

Vladislav Todorov

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Event Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2002
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Vladislav Todorov currently lectures in literature and cultural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Recently published work includes "Red Square, Black Square: Organon for Revolutionary Imagination" (Suny, 1995), and two collections of essays and creative works in Bulgarian, "The Adam Complex" (1991) and "The Paradox of Theater and Other Figures of Life" (1998). He has also contributed to a representative collection of experimental prose, "Post-theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance: the Bulgarian Case" (SUNY, 1995). A piece of short fiction, "The Four Luxemburgs," appeared in Postmodern Culture (1993); philosophical critical essays have been published by journals including the Yale Journal of Criticism, L'infini and College Literature. His work has been translated into French, German, Russian, Czech and Hungarian. He holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics (1987) from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a Ph.D. in Russian Studies (1996) from the University of Pennsylvania.

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