Aleksei I. Chagin

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Chief Research Fellow of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations at the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMLI RAN).

Born in 1946 in Moscow. In 1964, he graduated from high school in Tbilisi. From 1964 to 1969, he studied at the Philological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 1969 to 1974, he was a lecturer at Moscow State University. In 1974, he entered postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now RAS). In 1979, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation (PhD) and has been working at this institute ever since; in 1998, he defended his Doctor of Sciences dissertation (Dr. hab.) on "Russian Poetry of the 1920s-1930s in Russia and Abroad (Paths of Development and Interaction)."

From April 2003 to January 2005 – Head of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations at IMLI RAN.
From January 2005 to January 2016 – Deputy Director of IMLI RAN.
Since 2016 – Chief Research Fellow of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations.

In 1994–1995, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University (USA).

He participated in a number of international and all-Russian conferences, including: "National Cultures in the Modern World. Folklore. Literature" (Sukhumi, October 22–26, 2003; Sukhumi, October 15–19, 2012), "Problems of Teaching American Students Abroad" (Trinity College, Hartford, USA; October 2004), "Literary Abroad. Personalities. Books. Problems" (IMLI, May 2004), "Issues in Studying the History of National Literatures. Theory. Methodology. Modern Aspects" (Moscow, IMLI RAN, June 11, 2008), "The Creative Personality in Historical and Cultural Space. On the 100th Anniversary of A. E. Kulakovsky's Address 'To the Yakut Intelligentsia'" (Moscow, Moscow House of Nationalities, November 21–22, 2012), and others.

A. I. Chagin is the author of three books and more than 100 articles in various periodicals, academic collections, and encyclopedias.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the "Literary Encyclopedia of the Russian Abroad. 1918–1940," the "Literary Studies Journal," and many collective works of the Department of Literatures of the Russian Federation and CIS Nations at IMLI RAN.

His research interests are associated with the study of 20th-century Russian literature, issues of literary theory, and the interaction of literatures.

List of Scientific Works

Books

1. Chagin A. I. The Hero and Time (On the Hero of Modern Russian Poetry). M.: Znaniye. 1985. 3.5 p.l.
2. Chagin A. I. The Split Lyre (Russia and Abroad: The Fate of Russian Poetry in the 1920s–1930s). M.: Naslediye. 1998. 272 p.
3. Chagin A. I. Paths and Faces. On 20th Century Russian Literature. M.: IMLI RAN, 2008. 600 p.

Articles
(A selection from the extensive list, showing the range of topics. The notation "а.л." refers to "author's sheets," a standard unit of measurement for text volume in Russian publishing.)

• Chagin A. I. "I Love with Every Drop of Blood..." // Nash Sovremennik. 1973. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. "The Spring Night is Full of Movement..." // Znamya. 1976. No. 11. 0.5 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. "He Finished Speaking Forever in Battle..." // Druzhba Narodov. 1977. No. 3. 0.7 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Historism as a Dynamic Category (Problems of Comprehension in Criticism) // Current Problems in the Methodology of Modern Literary Criticism: Principles and Criteria. M., Nauka, 1980 – P. 273 – 301.
• Chagin A. I. Two Wings of Russian Poetry. Article 1 // Russian Literary Studies Journal. 1993. No. 2. 2 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Two Wings of Russian Poetry. Article 2 // Russian Literary Studies Journal. 1993. No. 3.
• Chagin A. I. The "Thoroughly Masculine World" of Alexander Ginger // Jews in the Culture of the Russian Abroad. Vol. 4. Jerusalem, 1995. 1 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Orpheus of Russian Montparnasse. (On the Poetry of Boris Poplavsky) // Russian Literary Studies Journal. 1996. No. 8; 1997. No. 9. 3 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Russian Surrealism: Myth or Reality? // Surrealism and the Avant-Garde. M.: GITIS, 1999.
• Chagin A. I. From the "Fantastic Tavern" to the Café "Port-Royal" // Literary Abroad: The Problem of National Identity. Issue I. M.: [IMLI RAN], Naslediye, 2000. P. 67–93.
• Chagin A. I. On the Integrity of Russian Literature of the 1920s–1990s // Literature, Culture and Folklore of the Slavic Peoples. XIII International Congress of Slavists. Reports of the Russian Delegation. M.: IMLI RAN, 2002. 0.5 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Boris Poplavsky: Poetry at the Crossroads of Traditions // Symbolism and the Avant-Garde. M.: Nauka, 2003. 1 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. The Relentless World of Yuri Odarchenko // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue III. M.: IMLI RAN, 2005. P. 29–47.
• Chagin A. I. Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde: The Poetry of Anna Prismanova // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue IV. M.: IMLI RAN, 2007. P. 55–64.
• Chagin A. I. St. Petersburg – Paris or Acmeism in the Russian Abroad // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue V. M.: IMLI RAN, 2008. P. 47–79.
• Chagin A. I. "A Citizen of Free Birdhouses…" Vyach. Ivanov in the 1910s–1940s // Literary Classics in the Dialogue of Cultures. Issue 2. M.: IMLI RAN, 2011. P. 42–65.
• Chagin A. I. The "Sunken Submarine" of Arseny Nesmelov // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue VI. M.: IMLI RAN, 2012. P. 22–40.
• Chagin A. I. "A Heavy Flight to Eternity". Vladimir Smolensky // Academic Notebooks. Issue 15. M., 2013. P. 188–217.
• Chagin A. I. Dialogue on the Paths of Russian Poetry (A. Bem and G. Adamovich) // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue VII–VIII. M.: IMLI RAN, 2015. P. 45–54.
• Chagin A. I. "Russia, We are in an Eternal Rendezvous…" The Poetry of Vladimir Smolensky // Literary Abroad: Personalities. Books. Problems. Issue VII–VIII. M.: IMLI RAN, 2015. P. 247–274.
• Chagin A. I. The Bottomless Image. On the Possibilities of Analyzing a Poetic Work (O. Mandelstam. "Concert at the Station") // Materials of the VI International Scientific-Practical Conference "Text: Problems and Prospects. Aspects of Study for Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language". M.: Philological Faculty of Moscow State University, November 26–28, 2015. P. 664–666.
• Chagin A. I. Boris Poplavsky – The Beginning of the Path // The Work of V. V. Mayakovsky. Issue Three. M.: IMLI RAN, 2015. P. 450–463.
• Chagin A. I. Article: Between the "Belevsky Uyezd" and Semantic Poetics: The Genetic Memory of Literature // Issues in the Study of National Literatures. The Discourse of Identity in Changing Contexts. M.: IMLI RAN, 2017. P. 163–186.
• Chagin A. I. Article: "The Glass House" of Boris Poplavsky // Russkaya Slovesnost. 2018. No. 1. – P. 49 – 61.

In English

• Chagin A. I. Literature of the Russian Abroad // Nota Bene. New Haven (USA). 1995. Vol. 9. No. 1. 0.3 p.l.

In Georgian

• Chagin A. I. Defenders of the Spirit // Alaznis Gantiadi. May 19, 1987. 0.5 p.l.

In Finnish

• Chagin A. I. The Authorial "I" in Lyric Poetry. On the Problem of Self-Parody // The Elusive Subject. Turku, 1991. 1 p.l.

In Korean

• Chagin A. I. What's New in Literature: Poetry at the Crossroads of Traditions // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 1 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Ginger A. S. // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Knut D. // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.
• Chagin A. I. Prismanova A.S. // Rusistika. (Seoul). 1998. No. 9. 0.5 p.l.