# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mikhail-epstein
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:36:55.043Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mikhail-epstein"
name: "Mikhail Epstein"
slug: "mikhail-epstein"
description: "Mikhail Naumovich Epstein is a Russian-American literary scholar, essayist, and cultural theorist best known for his contributions to the study of Russian postmodernism. He is the Emeritus S. C. Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. His writings encompass Russian literature and intellectual history, the philosophy of religion, the creation of new ideas in the age of electronic media, semiotics, and interdisciplinary approaches in the humanities. His works have been translated into over 26 languages."
tagline: "Russian-American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mikhail_Epstein_pond.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1950-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump