He is a co-editor, with Christopher P. Heuer, Matthew Jesse Jackson, Tumelo Mosaka, and Stephanie Smith, of Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture (The New Press). His books include monographs on Fyodor Dostoevsky, Viacheslav Ivanov, and Andrei Tarkovsky. His fields of interest include Russian literature, cinema, aesthetic theory, and intellectual history. Bird lives in Chicago, Illinois.