Brumfield, William Craft

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BRUMFIELD, William Craft

BRUMFIELD, William Craft. American, b. 1944. Genres: Architecture, Literary criticism and history, Photography, Urban studies. Career: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, assistant professor of Russian literature, 1974-79, fellow at Russian Research Center, 1980-81; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, assistant professor, 1981-83, associate professor, 1984-91, professor of Russian studies, 1992-. University of Wisconsin, visiting lecturer in Russian literature, 1973-74; American Council of Teachers of Russian, Pushkin Institute, resident director, 1979-80; University of Virginia, visiting associate professor, 1985-86; NEH Summer Institute, Moscow, co-director, 1994. Publications: (and photographs) Gold in Azure: 1,000 Years of Russian Architecture, 1983; (with B. Ruble and A. Kopp) Architecture and the New Urban Environment, 1988; The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture, 1991; A History of Russian Architecture, 1993; An Architectural Survey of St. Petersburg, 1840-1916: Building Inventory, 1994; Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture, 1995; Landmarks of Russian Architecture: A Photographic Survey, 1997. EDITOR: Reshaping Russian Architecture, 1990; (with M. Velimirovich) Christianity and the Arts in Russia, 1991; (with B. Ruble) Russian Housing in the Modern Age, 1993; (with B. Ruble) Zhilishche v Rossii: vek XX, 2001; (with B. Ananich and Y. Petrov) Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 2001; (with B. Ananich and Y. Petrov) Predprinimatelstvo i gorodskaia kultura v Rossii, 2002. Address: Dept of Germanic and Slavic Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]