{"id":4,"date":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:27:26","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/alexander-zholkovsky\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Alexander\u00a0Zholkovsky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px 10px 5px 10px;\" src=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2023\/08\/volkova.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Zholkovsky\" width=\"200\" height=\"287\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Professor Alexander <a href=\"\/alexander-zholkovsky\/alik2\">Zholkovsky<\/a> researches Russian literary studies, with a focus on Soviet Aesopian &#8220;art of adaptation&#8221;, the poetics of bad writing and intertextuality. 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