Kåre Johan Mjør

Kåre Johan Mjør is an independent scholar. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway. His doctoral thesis,Reformulating Russia: The Cultural and Intellectual Historiography of Russian First-Wave Émigré Writers (2009), is devoted to the writings of Georgii Fedotov, Georgii Florovskii, Nikolai Berdiaev, and Vasilii Zenkovskii. Other fields of interest include the reception of Vladimir Solov’ev’s philosophy and Russian imperial historiography (Vasilii Kliuchevskii, Sergei Solov’ev). The author of Desire, Death, and Imitation: Narrative Patterns in the Late Tolstoy (2002), he has also written articles on the Moscow/Tartu school, the post-Soviet reception of previously forbidden literature, and on the “Russia and Europe” theme.