Русский (Россия) Education:
2014 – Doctor of Philological Sciences, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences.
2006–2009 – Doctoral program, St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture.
2000 – Candidate of Philological Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (SPbU).
1996–1999 – Postgraduate studies, SPbU, Faculty of Philology, Department of Russian Literature History.
1991–1996 – SPbU, Faculty of Philology, Diploma in Russian Language and Literature.
Work Experience:
2017–present – Leading Research Fellow, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
2021–2022 – Professor, A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University, Department of Russian Literature.
2000–2021 – St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, Department of Literature and Media Studies. Professor (2017–2021), Associate Professor (2004–2017), Senior Lecturer (2000–2004).
2016–2021 – Baltic State Technical University “Voemnekh,” Department of Applied and Theoretical Linguistics, Professor.
2008–2009 – General Director, ABBYY North LLC (Linguistic Information Technologies).
2000–2004 – St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Sociology.
1993–2000 – Teacher of Literature and English, Secondary School No. 324, St. Petersburg.
International Lectures and Presentations:
Delivered lectures and presentations at universities in Helsinki (Finland), Olsztyn (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Bremen and Osnabrück (Germany), Leeds and Sheffield (United Kingdom), and Lyon (France).
Grants (since 2017):
- Project Leader:
RSF, 2022–2023: “Complete Works of V.N. Muromtseva-Bunina” (No. 22-28-01340).
RFBR, 2020–2022: “I.A. Bunin and Palestine” (No. 20-012-41004).
RFBR, 2019–2021: “I.A. Bunin: New Materials and Studies” (No. 19-012-00290a).
RFBR, 2019: “Postcolonial Theory and Travel Literature” (No. 19-112-50272).
- Key Participant:
RSF, 2022–2024: “Early Works of I.A. Bunin” (No. 22-18-00347).
RSF, 2017–2021: “Academic Bunin” (No. 17-18-01410).
RSF, 2020–2021: “Russian Literature and Philosophy” (No. 17-18-01432).
RGNF/RFBR, 2016–2018: “I.A. Bunin: New Materials and Studies” (No. 16-04-00107a).
Scientific Conferences (selected, last 5 years):
Roundtable “Emigrantica: New Projects,” Moscow, House of Russian Diaspora, 28.04.2022. Presentations: “I.A. Bunin and Palestine,” “V.N. Muromtseva-Bunina.”
Conference “Plotology/Plotography 8,” Novosibirsk, 17–19.05.2022. Presentation: “Plotology of I.A. Bunin’s Early Works.”
Roundtable “Palestinian-Bunin Plot,” Moscow, 16.06.2022. Presentation: “I.A. Bunin’s Journey to Palestine.”
Conference “Chekhov in a Changing World,” Veliky Novgorod, 22–23.09.2022. Presentation: “Biographical Essays of V.N. Muromtseva-Bunina.”
Symposium “First Wave of Russian Emigration,” Budapest, 26–27.11.2021. Presentation: “The Concept of Homeland in Eurasianist Philosophy.”
Conference “I.A. Bunin and His Time,” Moscow, 20–23.10.2021. Presentations: “The Life of Arseniev,” “Temple of the Sun.”
Conference “I.A. Bunin: Contexts of Fate,” Moscow, 20–23.10.2020. Presentations: “The Life of Arseniev,” “Temple of the Sun.”
Conference “Great Names of Russian Emigration,” Olsztyn, Poland, 14–15.10.2019. Presentation: “Geography of Dispersion.”
Conference “Silver Age Heritage,” Lyon, France, 16–17.11.2018. Presentation: “Bunin and Silver Age Traditions.”
Dissertations:
2008–2013: Doctoral – “Typology of Soviet Travel. ‘Journey to the West’ in Russian Literature of the 1920s–1930s.”
1997–2000: Candidate – “I.A. Bunin and L.N. Tolstoy.”
1994–1996: Diploma thesis – “I.A. Bunin’s Book The Liberation of Tolstoy.”
Publications:
4 monographs: Typology of Soviet Travel (2011, 2nd ed. 2013), Postmodernism: Soviet Variant (2011), Literature Textbook in Soviet Schools (2012), Overcoming Modernism: I.A. Bunin’s Émigré Period Works (2019).
3 collective monographs (1 in English).
5 monographic publications of I.A. Bunin’s heritage.
Over 180 academic articles, including 49 in the last 5 years (27 in Web of Science/SCOPUS).
Hirsch Index: RSCI – 14, Web of Science – 3, SCOPUS – 1.
Research Interests:
Russian émigré literature, I.A. Bunin’s works (academic edition of collected works).
20th-century travel literature, postcolonial criticism, travelogue theory.
Teaching literature in Soviet schools.
Literary theory, poetics, and ideology in 20th-century texts.
History of philological science (Russian formalism, M.M. Bakhtin, G.A. Gukovsky).
