Human Nature in Utopia Zamyatin’s We

Brett Cooke is Professor of Russian (русистики) at Texas A&M University, recognized as a 'world Slavistics star' by Литературная газета in 2013. Author of Pushkin and the Creative Process, (University Press of Florida, 1998), Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin's We (Northwestern University Press, 2002), and Tolstoy’s Family Prototypes in War and Peace (Academic Studies Press, 2020). As one of the founders of evolutionary criticism, he also edited collections, Sociobiology and the Arts (Rodopi, 1999), The Fantastic Other (Rodopi, 1998), Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts (ICUS, 1999), Critical Issues: War and Peace (Salem, 2014), and Evolution and Popular Narrative (Brill 2019), as well as special issues: Literary Biopoetics in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies (2001), “Zamiatin’s We” in Canadian-American Slavic Studies (2011), and “Applied Evolutionary Criticism” in Style (2012). He has published many articles on Russian literature—especially the development of subjectivity—as well as Western art and science fiction. Presently he is completing a Darwinian study of opera.