Elena D. Galtsova

DSc in Philology, Associate Professor

PhD thesis:
French Surrealist Drama of the 1920s (1993)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:
Theatricality in the Artistic System of French Surrealism (2008)

Research interests:
French literature, theater, culture and intellectual history of the 19^th–21^st centuries; Russian literature, theater, culture and philosophy of the 19^th–21^st centuries (including emigration); identification and academic publication of archival materials (languages of archival materials — Russian, French, English, Italian); cultural transfer (Russia, France, Belgium, Italy); perception of F.M. Dostoevsky's work in France.

Professional service:
Head of the academic laboratory “Rossica. Russian Literature in the Global Cultural Context” IWL RAS

Other information:
Member of the editorial board of the serial publication Emigrantica (IWL RAS)

Teaching activity:
Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Academic publications (316 in total, including 4 monographs):

Monographs:

La réception en France des Carnets du sous-sol de Fiodor Dostoïevski: un heureux malentendu. Paris: les éditions L’inventaire, 2023. 270 p. (Co-authored with A. Coldefy-Faucard)
André Breton's Work as an Encyclopedia of Surrealism. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2019. 348, [2] p.: ill.
Surrealism and the Literary Crisis. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2016. 96 p. (Co-authored with Tristan Tzara)
Surrealism and Theater. On the Issue of Theatrical Aesthetics of French Surrealism. Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities Publ., 2012. 546 p.
Collective works (editor):
“Notes from the Underground” by F.M. Dostoevsky in the Culture of Europe and America, ed. by E.D. Galtsov. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021. 1024 p.

Articles:

“Néo-classiques” and “classiques modernes” in French Poetry of the 1880s and 1930s: Issues of Theory and Practice. Under the Sign of “neo-“: The History and Theory of Retrospective Trends in Modern Literature, ed. by V.B. Zusev-Ozkan. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2025, pp. 174–210. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0786-1-174-210
Echoes of the Great Patriotic War in a Poem by Tristan Tzara “Une Route Seul Soleil”. They Fought for the Motherland: Literature and History. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2025, pp. 731–747. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0822-6-731-747
P. Verlaine and F.M. Dostoevsky in the Works of Charles Morice in the 1880s: Intersections and Parallels. The New Philological Bulletin, no. 4 (75), 2025, pp. 307–316. https://doi.org/10.54770/20729316-2025-4-307
In the Struggle for Proletarian Literature: Financial and Political Components. Codex manuscriptus, issue 5. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 223–276. https://doi.org/10.22455/CM.2949-0510-2024-5-223-276 (Co-authored with D.S. Moskovskaya)
Possible Wilde Sources of Camus' Play “The Righteous” on a Russian Theme: “Faith, or the Nihilists”. O. Wilde and Russia: Problems of Poetics and Reception. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2023, pp. 358–376. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0711-3
Russian Contexts of the Works of Charles Morice. Lomonosov Philology Journal, no. 5, 2023, pp. 103–114. https://doi.org/10.55959/MSU0130-0075-9-2023-47-05-8
Les Présages. Critique, no. 905, 2022, pp. 818–829.
E.-M. de Vogüé on I.S. Turgenev in the Context of the Struggle Between “Cosmopolitanism” and “Nationalism” in France at the Turn of the 19^th–20^th Centuries. Turgenev at the Crossroads of Epochs and Cultures. Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities, 2021, pp. 71–88.
“Earth” in the First Translation of “Notes from the Underground” in France (1886). Russkaia slovesnost, no. 5, 2021, pp. 54–60.
How to Translate Dostoevsky from French into French? “L'homme de la nature et de la vérité” and “animaux domestiques” in Notes from Underground. RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, no. 26 (3), 2021, pp. 366–478. doi: 10.22363/ 2312-9220-2021-26-3-466-478
Money and Interest in the French Translations of “Notes From The Underground” by F.M. Dostoevsky: Questions of Economics, Ethics and Eroticism. Zbornik matice srpske za slavistiku, no. 99, 2021, pp. 75–92. https://doi.org/10.18485/ms_zmss.2021.99.5
FOSP’S “Publishing Passion”: On the Materials Held in the Department of Manuscripts of IWL RAS. Studia Litterarum, vol. 5, no 4, 2020, pp. 394–419. https://doi.org/10.22455/2500-4247-2020-5-4-394-419 (Co-authored with D.S. Moskovskaya)
L’hétérolinguisme dans les Notes écrites dans un souterrain de Dostoïevski et ses traductions françaises. Lendemains — Études comparées sur la France 45, dir. J. Lamberty, H.-J. Lüsebrink. Écriture hétérolingue et traduction, nr. 177, issue 45, 2020, pp 69–86. https://doi.org/10.2357/Idm-2020-0007