Lev Loseff[1] (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ло́сев; birth name Lev Lifshitz; June 15, 1937 – May 6, 2009) was a Russian poet, literary critic, essayist and educator.
[2] The son of poet Vladimir Lifshitz, Loseff was born in Leningrad.
[2] He attended Leningrad's famous Saint Peter's School and graduated from the journalism department of the Leningrad State University.
[3] He earned a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan and became a professor of Russian literature at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, a position he held until his death thirty years later.
[1] In his later years Loseff was a Russian-language radio personality and a prolific author, writing both poetry and non-fiction works on Russian literature.