Valery S. Otiakovsky

PhD

Education:
Bachelor's and Master's degree from St. Petersburg State University, doctoral student at the University of Tartu

Research interests:
The legacy of the formal method, intellectual history, social history of the humanities

Professional service:
Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie”

Other information:
Editor of the book series “Humanitarian Heritage” of the publishing house “Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie”
Academic publications (16 in total, including 1 monograph):
Alexander Kondratov. Otyshchu ubeshchur: Archeology of the Avant-garde, ed. by V. Otiakovsky, V. Vlasova. St. Petersburg, Publishing House “DA”, 2025. 400 p., 70 ill. (Futurum Series, Vol. 1)
Konstantin Shimkevich. It Is Now Calmer with Food: Letters After the Siege, ed. by V. Otiakovsky. St. Petersburg, Jaromir Hladik Press, 2024. 96 p., ill.

Monographs:

The Microhistory of the Formalist Community: The Cabinet of Modern Literature at the State Institute of Art Studies. Tartu, University of Tartu Press, 2024. 217 p.

Collective works (editor):

Archaeology of the Soviet: Self-Criticism in the USSR. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 5 (177), 2022, pp. 72–148 [compiler of the thematic block of the articles].

Articles:

Degenerate: On a Literary Reputation of Konstantin Olimpov. ULBANDUS, The Slavic Review of Columbia University, pp. 102–126.
The Committee for Contemporary Literature and Unpublished Formalist Books. Journal of Studies in Russian Formalism, no. 1, 2024, pp. 107–122. https://doi.org/10.14672/rf.v1i1.2444
Historiography of the Avant-garde at the State Institute of Art Studies: New Materials. Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, no. 12, 2024, pp. 239–257.
From the Correspondence of Z. Paperny with Yu. Lotman and Z. Mints. Acta Slavica Estonica, no. XVII, 2023, pp. 221–243.
Between Self-Criticism and Self-Justification: The Case of Yuri Pertsovich. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 5 (177), 2022, pp. 104–118. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365_2022_177_5_104
Soviet Samokritika as a Sabotage of Repentant Discourse. Новое литературное обозрение. 2022. № 5 (177). С. 72–80. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365_2022_177_5_72
Autobiography of I. Ya. Aizenshtok. Zbornik Matice Srpske za slavistiku, no. 101, 2022, pp 55–75. https://doi.org/10.18485/MS_ZMSS.2022.101.4
Materials to the Bibliography of I. Ya. Aizenshtok. Zbornik Matice Srpske za slavistiku, no. 101, 2022, pp. 77–92. https://doi.org/10.18485/MS_ZMSS.2022.101.5 (Co-authored with G. Babak)
Konstantin Shimkevich as a Pushkinist. Vremennik Pushkinskoi komissii, issue 34, 2020, pp. 181–196. https://doi.org/10.31860/0236-2481-2020-34-181-196
From Discussions Around Russian Formalism. Konstantin Shimkevich About “Literary Fact” of Yuri Tynianov. Summer School on Russian Literature, vol. XVI, issue. 1–2, 2020, pp. 130–147. https://doi.org/10.26172/2587-8190-2020-16-1-2-130-147
“The Days Were Tumbling Like Rabbits That Were Shot on the Run.” Letters from Konstantin Shimkevich to His Daughter (February–March 1944). Neprikosnovennyi zapas, no. 6 (128), 2019, pp. 4–20.
About Mayakovsky's Publications in Esperanto. Vladimir Mayakovsky in the World Cultural Space. Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2018, pp. 450–455.