Peter Steiner

Professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Pennsylvania. His major areas of research are literary theory and modern Slavic literature and culture. He is a highly respected specialist of Russian formalism and Prague structuralism.

with Steiner Wendy (1978). E. Holenstein, Roman Jakobsons phänomenologischer strukturalismus: Structures and phenomena [Review of the book Roman Jakobsons phänomenologischer Strukturalismus, by E. Holenstein]. PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 3, 357-370.

with Matejka Ladislav, Bailey Richard (eds) (1978). The sign: Semiotics around the world. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.

Mukařovský Jan (1978). Structure, sign, and function: Selected essays. J. Burbank (Eds.). New Haven: Yale University Press.

(ed) (1982). The Prague school: Selected writings, 1929-1946. Austin: University of Texas Press.

(1984). Russian formalism: A metapoetics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

(2009). Tropos logikos: Gustav Shpet's philosophy of history. In G. Tihanov (ed.) Gustav Shpet's contribution to philosophy and cultural theory (pp. 13-27). West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.

(2017). Divergence vs. convergence: Moretti, Tynyanov, Jakobson. Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki, 47 (2), 117-124.

(2020). From structuralism to Marxism (and back?): Jan Mukařovský 1945–1963. Studies in East European Thought, 72 (1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-019-09338-1.