Ivan Delazari received his higher education diploma in Philology (English Language and Literature) from St. Petersburg State University (2000) and completed his first round of graduate studies at the Department of Literary History with a PhD (kandidat nauk) dissertation on William Faulkner (2003). Taking a six-month research leave from teaching American Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at St. Petersburg State University, he continued his research into Faulkner as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Mississippi between 2009 and 2010. In 2014, he won a three-year Hong Kong PhD Fellowship at Hong Kong Baptist University, from which he holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English (2018). His interdisciplinary doctoral research in literature and music secured Ivan’s membership in and conferencing with the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA) and the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), as well as his 2016 Alan Nadel Award for the Best Graduate Student Essay. In the academic year 2017–2018, Ivan Delazari taught University English II and Twenty-first Century Literature to Hong Kong Baptist University’s undergraduates and MA students, respectively. Between 2018 and 2022, he was an Associate Professor of Philology at HSE University in St. Petersburg. In 2022, he joined the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Literature at Nazarbayev University in 2022, where he teaches Introduction to Literary Studies, American and World Literature, Literary Modernism, Postmodern Fiction, and Introduction to the Novel.

Ivan Delazari is the author of Musical Stimulacra: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen (Routledge, 2021) and several dozen journal articles and book chapters in audionarratology, comparative and Anglophone literature, and intermediality studies. His research interests embrace such issues as the experientiality of literature and readerly immersion, diegetic sound and books as multimodal narrative interfaces, and the transposition of literatures and cultures across languages and media.