Elena D. Galtsova

Elena Dmitrievna Galtsova was born in Moscow. In 1988, she graduated from the Romance-Germanic Department of the Faculty of Philology at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), with her diploma thesis titled “The Poetics of Victor Hugo’s *Contemplations*.” In 1991, she completed postgraduate studies at the Department of History of Foreign Literatures at the Faculty of Philology, MSU. In 1993, she defended her Candidate of Sciences dissertation at MSU on the topic “French Surrealist Drama of the 1920s” under the supervision of L.G. Andreev. In 2008, she defended her Doctoral dissertation at the Institute of World Literature (IMLI RAS) on the topic “Theatricality in the Artistic System of French Surrealism” in the specialty 10.01.03 – Literature of the Peoples of Foreign Countries.

She has been working at IMLI RAS since January 1994: from 1994 to 2014 as a Senior Research Associate, from 2014 to 2019 as a Leading Research Associate, and since 2019 as a Chief Research Associate in the Department of Literature of Modern Europe and America. Since 2019, she has been the Head of the Scientific Laboratory “Rossica: Russian Literature in the Global Cultural Context.”

E.D. Galtsova combines her scientific career with teaching at universities. She worked at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) from 1988 to 1993, and then, from 1993 to 2003, part-time at the Military University (formerly the Military Institute of Foreign Languages), the French University College (Moscow), the Moscow Humanitarian-Economic Institute, and other institutions. In 2004, she was a visiting professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand Blaise Pascal (France), Department of Slavic Studies, and in 2008 at the University of Picardy Jules Verne (France), Department of Comparative Literature. Since 2004, she has been teaching at the Department of Comparative History of Literatures at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH): from 2004 to 2009 as an Associate Professor, and since 2009 as a Professor. Since 2014, she has also been a Professor at the Department of History of Foreign Literature at the Faculty of Philology, MSU.

She is a member of the dissertation councils IMLI RAS D.002.209.01 and MSU Faculty of Philology MSU.10.10.

**Areas of Scientific Interest:** French and Francophone literature and theater of the 19th–21st centuries, cultural ties between Russia and Europe, the reception of F.M. Dostoevsky’s *Notes from Underground* in Europe and America, history of ideas, literary theory, comparative literature, cultural transfer, genetic criticism, autobiographical writing, interactions between different art forms in literature, anthropological interpretations of literature and theater.

Author of over 200 scholarly publications published in Russia, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, including articles, reviews, scholarly apparatus for editions of French authors, as well as textbooks and curricula. Translator of fiction (A. Camus, G. Bataille, A. Breton, L. Aragon, R. Crevel, R. Vitrac, M. Duras, M. Leiris, D.-G. Gabily, P. Sollers, J. Starobinski, T. Tzara, etc.), and scientific and journalistic texts from French, English, and Italian.

**Membership in Scientific Societies, Associations, and Committees:** 

- Member of the Commission on Literature and Intellectual Culture of France, Scientific Council “History of World Culture,” RAS; 

- Member of the international editorial board of the journal *Critique* (France); 

- Associated researcher at the Center for Franco-Russian Studies in Moscow (CERF); 

- Member of the Scientific Society “Surrealism Studies” of the French National Center for Scientific Research and University Paris-3; 

- Associated research fellow at the Center for Comparative Literature and Poetics, University Paris-10, Nanterre.

**Organizer/Co-Organizer of International Scientific Conferences (last 10 years):** 

- *France–Russie : Intellectuels, pouvoir et littérature aux XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles*. International colloquium. Paris, Sorbonne, November 25–27, 2010. 

- *Traduire, écrire, éditer: France-Russie*. Debate meetings, international colloquium. Amiens, December 2–3, 2010. 

- International conference *The Napoleonic Wars on the Mental Maps of Europe: Historical Consciousness and Literary Myths*. RSUH, September 22–23, 2011. 

- International conference *Interactions Between the Cultures of Western Countries (Europe, America) and the Soviet Union in the 1920s–1930s*. IMLI RAS, September 14, 2012. 

- International conference *Le Rapport à l’étranger dans la littérature et les arts soviétiques*. ARIAS-CNRS, Paris, November 10, 2012. 

- International conference *La fabrique du soviétique dans les arts et la culture. Le rapport à l’étranger*. ARIAS-CNRS, INHA, Paris, October 24–25, 2013. 

- International conference *Publishing Policy of the USSR and Foreign Writers in the 1920s–1960s. Europe, America*. IMLI RAS, July 8, 2014. 

- International conference *Literature as Autonomy: Intellectuals and Ideology in the 20th Century (Russia and the West)*. IMLI RAS jointly with the Center for Franco-Russian Studies in Moscow, September 10–11, 2015. 

- International symposium *Napoleonic Myths in World Culture: Epistemology, Axiology, Representations in Literature, Historiography, and Art*, October 3–5, 2016, IMLI RAS. 

- *100 Years of Dada*. International scientific conference. November 10–12, 2016, State Mayakovsky Museum, State Institute of Art Studies, IMLI RAS (held at the Avant-Garde Center of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, State Institute of Art Studies). 

- International conferences and roundtables *Overcoming National and Political Borders… Cultural Synergy of Russia and France* at the Russian Spiritual and Cultural Orthodox Center in Paris, September–October 2017. 

- *Concepts of Artistic Creativity at the International Congress of Writers in Defense of Culture (Paris, 1935)*. Scientific conference with international participation. IMLI RAS, May 28, 2018. 

- International scientific conference *Turgenev Days in Brussels: Russian Writers Abroad*. To the 200th anniversary of I.S. Turgenev’s birth. Brussels, Russian Center for Science and Culture (Belgium) – Bougival (France), July 4–8, 2018. 

- Russian-French conference *Paul Claudel and Russia. To the 150th Anniversary of the French Writer’s Birth*. IMLI RAS – CERF, October 15–16, 2018. 

- International conference *Turgenev in Intercultural Communication*. RSUH, November 21–22, 2018. 

- International conference *Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cultures of the “New Spirit”. To the 100th Anniversary of the Publication of *Calligrammes***. IMLI named after A.M. Gorky RAS, December 24, 2018.

**Leadership of Grant Projects:** 

- Head of the RFH publishing grant No. 05-04-16142d – *Encyclopedic Dictionary of Surrealism*, 2005. 

- Head of the RFH-CNRS France research grant 11-24-17001a/Fra – ETRANSOV PICS N 6027 – *Attitude Toward Foreign Culture in Soviet Literature, Art, and Theory, 1917–1941*, 2011–2013. 

- Head of the RFH publishing grant No. 15-04-16159d: publication of the collective monograph *Understanding the West. Foreign Culture in Soviet Literature, Art, and Theory. 1917–1941. Studies and Archival Materials*, 2015. 

- Head of the RFH research grant *Foreign Writers and the USSR: Unpublished Materials from the 1920s–1960s. Culture and Ideology* (14-04-00557a), 2014–2016. 

- Head of the RFBR research grant No. 18-012-90044 Dostoevsky *“Notes from Underground” by F.M. Dostoevsky and the Problem of the “Underground Man” in the Culture of Europe and America from the Late 19th to Early 21st Centuries*.

**Selected Bibliography of Scholarly Works and Translations (name variations in publications: E. Galtsova, Elena Galtsova, E.D. Galtsova, Elena Galʹcova, Léna Galtsova, Galʹcova Elena Dmitrievna):** 

1. **Monographs:** 

   - *Surrealism and Theater. On the Question of the Theatrical Aesthetics of French Surrealism*. Moscow, RSUH (with approvals from IMLI and the RAS Scientific Council “History of World Culture”), 2012, 546 p., 29.3 pp. 

   - *The Work of André Breton as an Encyclopedia of Surrealism*. Moscow, IMLI RAS, 2019, 22 pp. (in press). 

2. **Scientific Supervision (and Co-Supervision) of Collective Works, Special Issues of Scholarly Journals:** 

   - *Anthology of French Surrealism of the 1920s* (with S.A. Isaev). Moscow, GITIS, 1994, 391 p. 

   - *Moscou 2001 - Odyssée de la Russie*. *Critique*, Paris, January–February 2001, No. 644–645, 160 p. (with V. Berelovich). 

   - *Cahiers d’histoire culturelle «Les voyages du théâtre. Russie/France»*. University of Tours, No. 10, 2001, 209 p.; 2nd edition No. 22, 2009 (with M.-C. Autant-Mathieu and E. Henri). 

   - *The Vicissitudes of Choice: Anthologies and Dictionaries in the Practice of Surrealism and the Avant-Garde. Surrealism and the Avant-Garde in Anthologies and Dictionaries*. Moscow, RIO MGK, 2004, 236 p. (with T.V. Balashova and J. Chenet-Janron). 

   - *From Text to Stage. Russo-French Theatrical Interactions of the 19th–20th Centuries*. Moscow, OGI, 2006, 319 p. (with M.-C. Autant-Mathieu). 

   - *Encyclopedic Dictionary of Surrealism* (with T.V. Balashova). Moscow, IMLI, 2007, 581 p. 

   - *Textology and Genetic Criticism: Common Issues and Theoretical Perspectives*. Moscow, IMLI RAS, 2008, 267 p. (editor-in-chief). 

   - Editor of materials from the international conference *Anthropological Approach to the Study of Drama and Performing Arts* // *New Russian Humanities Studies*, Series: Cultural Studies, No. 4, 2009. http://www.nrgumis.ru 

   - *The Napoleonic Wars on the Mental Maps of Europe: Historical Consciousness and Literary Myths*. Moscow, RSUH-Klyuch S, 2011. Edited and compiled by N.M. Velikaya, E.D. Galtsova, 640 p. 

   - *Attitude Toward Foreign Culture in Soviet Literature, Art, and Theory. 1917–1941*. Special section of the journal. Compiled and edited. *New Russian Humanities Studies*, Series: Literary Studies, No. 7, 2012 (6 pp.); No. 8, 2013 (14 pp.). http://www.nrgumis.ru 

   - *Publishing Policy of the USSR and Foreign Writers in the 1920s–1960s. Europe, America*. Selection of scholarly articles (6 pp.). Compiled and edited // *New Russian Humanities Studies*, Series: Literary Studies, No. 9, 2014, http://www.nrgumis.ru 

   - *Western Writers and the USSR in the 1920s–1960s: Culture, Ideology, Power*. Special section of the journal (10 pp.). *New Russian Humanities Studies*, Series: Literary Studies, No. 10, 2015, http://www.nrgumis.ru. Compiled and edited. 

   - *Understanding the West. Foreign Culture in Soviet Literature, Art, and Theory. 1917–1941* (collective monograph). Moscow, IMLI RAS, 2015, 871 p. (54.5 pp). Editor-in-chief. 

3. **Publication of Archival Materials:** 

   - Tristan Tzara. *Surrealism and the Literary Crisis*. Moscow, IMLI RAS, 2016 (preface, translation, comments by E.D. Galtsova), 96 p. (6 pp). 

   - Paul Claudel, Ivan Aksyonov. *The Tiara of the Century* (publication by O.N. Kuptsova, V.P. Nechaev, and E.D. Galtsova). Comments by E.D. Galtsova // *Understanding the West. Foreign Culture in Soviet Literature, Art, and Theory. 1917–1941. Studies and Archival Materials*. Moscow, IMLI RAS, 2015, pp. 437–520, 5 pp. 

   - *From the Correspondence of Jean-Paul Sartre* (letters of J.-P. Sartre from Russian archives, materials on Sartre’s reception in the USSR in the 1950s–1960s) / *Writers’ Dialogue*. Moscow, IMLI RAS, 2002, pp. 488–521. 

4. **Articles (Selected):** 

   - “Theatrical Experiments of Louis Aragon” / *Moscow University Bulletin*, Series 9, Philology, Moscow, No. 1, 1992, pp. 41–38. 

   - “The Surrealist Drama of J. Hugnet and J. Névé” / *Current Issues in Linguistics and Literary Studies*. Moscow, 1994, pp. 118–129. 

   - “Criticism and Clinic” / *New Literary Review*, 1995, No. 13, pp. 401–403. 

   - “The Problem of Myth Among French Surrealists” / *Soros Fellows*, Moscow, 1996, Vol. 3, pp. 28–36. 

   - “Calligraphie du corps dans *Nadja* de Breton” / *Genèse textuelle, Identités sexuelles*, Paris, Du Lérot, 1997, pp. 75–85. 

   - “Le Desespéranto. Utopie de l’écriture universelle chez Tzara et Breton” / *Mélusine*, No. 17, 1997, Lausanne, l’Age d’Homme, pp. 275–292. 

   - “Semé à tout vent: le surréalisme en dictionnaire” / *Critique*, Paris, No. 608–609, 1998, pp. 1027–1039. 

   - “Misunderstandings (The First Canonization of Sartre in the USSR)” / *Literary Pantheon*. Moscow, Nasledie, 1999, pp. 291–314. 

   - “On the Edge of Surrealism. Franco-Russian Literary Encounters: Georges Bataille, Irina Odoyevtseva, and Georgy Ivanov” / *Surrealism and the Avant-Garde*. Moscow, GITIS, 1999, pp. 105–126. 

   - “Surrealist Simulations. (On Some Features of the Conceptual Creativity of French Surrealists Related to the Problematics of Clinical Madness, Play, and Marxism)” / *Bulletin of the Faculty of Philology, Institute of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg*, No. 2–3, 1999, pp. 68–83. 

5. **Scientific Comments:** 

   - *Anthology of French Surrealism. The 1920s*. Moscow, GITIS, 1994 (with S.A. Isaev). 

   - Georges Bataille. *Hatred of Poetry*. Moscow, Ladomir, 1999. 

   - Jean-Luc Nancy. *Corpus*. Moscow, Ad Marginem, 1999. 

   - Jean-Paul Sartre. *Nausea* (collection of selected works). Moscow, AST, 2003. 

   - Georges Bataille. *The Accursed Share*. Moscow, Ladomir, 2006. 

   - Tristan Tzara. *7 Dada Manifestos*. Moscow, State Mayakovsky Museum, 2016. 

6. **Translations from French:** 

   - Germaine de Staël. *On Literature* (excerpts) / *Literature of the 19th Century. Anthology*. Moscow, Higher School, 1990, pp. 20–23, 28–33. 

   - *Anthology of French Surrealism. The 1920s*. Compiled jointly with S.A. Isaev (translations by E. Galtsova: André Breton *Nadja*, *One Day It Will Be*, André Breton and Philippe Soupault *Magnetic Fields*, Louis Aragon *The Shadow of the Inventor*, *Defense of Infinity. Irene*, René Crevel *Spirit Against Reason*, Michel Leiris *The Adventurous Life of J.-A. Rimbaud*, *Metaphor*, and texts by Antonin Artaud, Roger Vitrac, Benjamin Péret, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, etc.). Moscow, GITIS, 1994. 

   - Letters and articles by French Saint-Simonians from the archives of the former Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute / *New Literary Review*, No. 13, 1995, pp. 294–314. 

   - Gérard Genette. *Works on Poetics* (translation of 11 articles). Moscow, Sabashnikov Publishers, 1998, Vol. 1, 2. 

   - Annie Ubersfeld. *Paul Claudel* / Paul Claudel. *The Noon Partition*. Moscow, GITIS, 1998, pp. 5–24. 

   - Georges Bataille. *Hatred of Poetry* (translation of novellas *The Impossible*, *The Abbé C.*, *Julie*, *Madame Edwarda*, *Divinus Deus*). Moscow, Ladomir, 1999. 

   - Jean-Luc Nancy. *Corpus* (with E. Petrova). Moscow, Ad Marginem, 1999 (translation and comments). 

   - Jacqueline Chenet-Janron. “The Concept of the Poetic Subject in the Works of Surrealists and Avant-Gardists. Methodological Issues” / *Surrealism and the Avant-Garde*. Moscow, GITIS, 1999, pp. 9–21. 

   - Michel Contat. Manuscript, first edition, “canonical” edition made with the author’s consent – what to believe? (*Nausea* by Sartre) / *Genetic Criticism in France*. Moscow, OGI, 1999, pp. 275–282. 

   - Michel Surya. From the Biography of G. Bataille / *Foreign Literature*. Moscow, 2000, No. 4, pp. 164–177. 

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