George Young, Ph.D.
George Young continues to bolster the mission of the Center for Global Humanities by educating retired individuals in the Southern Maine community as well as speaking both nationally and internationally about Russian language and literature. He is an adjunct faculty member in the UNE English Department. Before coming to UNE, George Young taught Russian language and literature from 1965 to 1978 at Grinnell and Dartmouth Colleges.
He is the author of a collection of poems, a study of the life and work of the nineteenth century Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Fedorov, and a book on the early twentieth century American artist Charles H. Woodbury. He wrote the article on Fedorov for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and many of his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in periodicals and anthologies.