L. Brett Cooke
Professor of Russian

Brett Cooke is Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Pushkin and the Creative Process (Florida, 1998) and Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin's We (Northwestern, 2002), and coeditor (with Jan Baptist Bedaux) of Sociobiology and the Arts (Rodopi, 1999) and (with Frederick Turner) of Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts (Paragon House, 1999). Especially interested in the adaptive functions of literature and the a rts, he is presently working on nepotism in Tolstoy's War and Peace and on plot themes in the core operatic repertory. Besides classic Russian literature and culture, he also teaches courses on political film and utopian fiction.

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