Tatiana Viktoroff

Victoroff

DSc in Philology,

Associate Professor (HDR) at the University of Strasbourg (French Literature, General and Comparative Literary Studies)

Education:

Graduated from Tyumen State University.

PhD thesis:

Typology of the Mystery Genre in English and Russian Dramaturgy of the First Half of the Twentieth Century: C. Williams, Dorothy Sayers, K. Fry and E.Y. Kuzmina-Karavaeva (1998)

DSc Thesis:

Le Théâtre en Quête d’Une Synthèse des Arts: Recherches Comparatistes sur la Scène Franco-Russe et la Littérature Européenne

Research interests:

Russian Russian medieval theater, mystery genre, Franco-Russian cultural ties, literature of Russian emigration, comparative studies.

Professional Service:

Director of the Institute of Comparative Studies at the University of Strasbourg and the Research Group “Europe des Lettres” (UR 1337 Configurations Littéraires);
Director of the Master’s Course in French, Francophone and Comparative Literature;
Literary Director of the Paris publishing house YMCA-Press
Work for Research Centers: ITI (Institut Thématique Interdisciplinaire) LETHICA, université de Strasbourg. Responsable: Anthony Mangeon, professeur de Littératures Francophones; CERCLE, université de Lorraine. Responsable: Antoine Nivière, prof. en Littérature Russe.
Member of the Editorial Board of Comparative and Slavic literary and Art History Journals: Bibliothèque des études comparatistes (BEL); Modernités russes (Université de Lyon); Codex manuscriptus, IMLI-RAN (Institut de Littérature Mondiale, Académie des Sciences de Russie (Moscou); Tyumen State University Herald
Editor-in-Chief of Vestnik RSHD (Paris — New York — Moscow)
Member of the commission for awarding the prize “The Best Thesis of the Year in the Field of Comparative Literature” (SFLGC: Association of French Comparative Scholars)

Scientific publications — more than 200 scientific publications.

Selected publications

Books (author, editor-compiler)

Boris de Schloezer. Scriabine. Édition Établie et Commentée par Tatiana Victoroff. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024. 344 p. (Série “Comprendre la Musique”, Collection “Aestetitica”)
Marina Tsvetaieva et l’Europe. Actes du Colloque International au Collège Doctoral Européen de Strasbourg, 13–15 Décembre 2018. [S. l.]: Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 2021. 317 p.
Revue d’Études Proustiennes. Marcel Proust et Mikhail Bakhtine: Regards Croisés. Vol. 13. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021. 335 p.
Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry of the Beginning of the XXI Century. (Introduction, choice of Texts by Tatiana Victoroff; translations by Jean-Louis Backès, Hélène Henry, Véronique Lossky, Jean-Baptiste Para, Christine Zeytounian), Paris, YMCA-Press, 2020. 333 p.
The Lyre and the Weapons. Poets at War: Péguy, Stadler, Owen, etc. Ed. by Julien Collonges and Tatiana Victoroff. Paris, Classics Garnier, 2020.
“The Gulag Archipelago”: the Story of a Literary Earthquake. Bilingual Catalog of the Exhibition at the Solzhenitsyn Cultural Center. Paris, Ymca-Press, 2018. 100 p.
The Dramatic Work of Michel Vinaver: Between France, America and Russia. Moscow, Russkii put' Publ., 2018. 384 p.
Anna Akhmatova and European Poetry. Brussels, Peter Lang, 2016.
Rebirths of the Mystery in Europe, Late Nineteenth – Early Twenty-first Century. What is the Mystery for Modernity? Strasbourg, PUS Foundation, 2015.
The Death of the Poets: Péguy, Stadler, Owen. Strasbourg, National Library of Strasbourg, 2014.

Selected Essays

Poetry of Translation: I.A. Bunin in Dialogue with Leconte de Lisle and the Parnassians. I.A. Bunin's Early Work (1883–1902): Poetics, Textual Criticism, Commentary, ex. ed. S.N. Morozov; ed. A.V. Bakuntsev, T.M. Dviniatina, E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 204‒287. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0761-8-204-287
“Bernard de Clairvaux, Contemporain Paradoxal des Russes: Lectures des Sermons sur le Cantique.” La Plume et la Grâce. Littérature et Spiritualité du Moyen Âge au XXIe Siècle. Mélanges en l’Honneur de Dominique Millet-Gérard. Paris, Honoré Champion, 2024, pp. 719–737.
“Feodor Chaliapine et Boris Grigoriev: Dialogue de Deux Génies Impulsifs, Colloque Chaliapine, un Chanteur au Croisement des Arts (Sorbonne Université), 19–20 Octobre 2023.” La Revue Russe, no. 62, 2024. pp. 145–166.
“La Beauté Hantera le Monde. Anges et Démons Dostoïevskiens dans La Naissance d’un Assassin de Lászlo Krasznahorkai.” Spectres de Dostoïevski. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024, pp. 145–154. (Collection “Perspectives Comparatistes”)
“L’exil Comme l’Antithèse de la Vie: Nabokov au Sein de l’Émigration Russe.” Cahiers de l’Herne, Numéro Spécial sur Vladimir Nabokov, 2023. pp. 59–62.
“Un Point de Vue Contemporain sur la Leçon des Ecrivains Russes. Entretien avec Alexeï Varlamov par Tatiana Victoroff.” Revue Recherches & Travaux. no. 102, 2023. pp. 70–79.
“Extraits de la Correspondance Vladimir Nabokov — Mstislav Doboujinsky.” Cahiers de l’Herne, Numéro Spécial sur Vladimir Nabokov, 2023. pp. 67–69.
“Russie.” Dictionnaire du Moyen Age Imaginaire. Le Médiévalisme, Hier et Aujourd’hui. [S. l.], Vendémiaire, 2022. pp. 382–387.
“L’Europe — Sodome? Le Dialogue des Merejkovski avec Proust dans Le Mystère de l’Occident: Atlantide — Europe.” Slavica Occitania, numéro spéciale sur “Les Mérejkovski et l’Europe.” no. 54, 2022. pp. 51–68.
“Visages de Russie: Boris Grigoriev et Ivan Bounine, Dialogue du Peintre et de l’Écrivain.” Slavica Occitania, no. 53, 2021. pp. 167–191.
“Partir et Laisser le Monde Inchangé? l’Attila de Zamiatine Face à l’Histoire.” Eugène Zamiatine. Attila. [S. l.], Editions Vibration, 2021. pp. 7–25.
“Naissance d’une Revue Comparatiste Russe: Imagiologie et Comparatisme.” Revue de Littérature Comparée, Numéro Spécial Consacré aux “Revues comparatistes du monde.” no. 4, 2021. pp. 511–513.
Trans-mitting/ferring Bounine: “The Mad Artist” Translated by Maurice Parijanine. Ivan Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work. Ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov; Eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 769–843. https://doi.org/10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-769-843
“Spiritualization of Matter”: Ivan Bunin in French Literary Criticism and in Translations by Boris Schloezer. Ivan Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work. Ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov; Eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 693–717. https://doi.org/10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-693-741
“Paris, Arène Culturelle et Intellectuelle de la Russie.” Le Tournant des Rêves. Traduire en Français en 1936. Tours, Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2021. pp. 141–174. (Collection “Traductions dans l’Histoire”)
“‘I Have Woven a Wide Veil for Them’: Anna Akhmatova and Mother Maria (Skobtsova).” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, no. 209, 2018, pp. 137–
“Religious Free Creativity": the Historiosophy of Mother Mary and the ‘Orthodox Cause’ on the Threshold of the Third Millennium.” The Spiritual Heritage of Mother Mary (Skobtsova): The Present and Future of the Church: Materials of the International Theological Conference (Moscow — Moscow region, December 27, 2011). Tver, Spasskoe, Sviato-Mariinskoe i Bogoliubskoe malye pravoslavnye bratstva Publ., 2016. pp. 12–
“Exhibition and Conference "Michel Vinaver's Creativity: Between France, America and Russia”. Yearbook of Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad,.no. 6, 2016, pp. 745– (Co-authored with S.N. Dubrovina).
‘No, It's Not a Distance, but a New Closeness to Everyone’: Mother Maria about Trips to the Baltic States (1932).” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, no, 201, 2013, pp. 44–
“‘The Land of Violence and Beautiful Eyes’: Louis Aragon on a Visit to the Soviet Urals.” Modern History of Russia, no. 3, 2012, pp. 157–167
“Return to the Origins of the Movement: the Relevance of the Legacy of Fr. Sergiy Bulgakov. RSHD Congress in Loisy.” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, 199, 2012, pp. 224–227.
“In Search of a Christian Aeschylus: G.P. Fedotov on the Christian Tragedy in Europe.” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, no. 199, 2012, pp. 64–
“‘Religious and Free Creativity’: the Historiosophy of Mother Mary and the ‘Orthodox Cause’ on the Threshold of the Third Millennium: A Report on the Evening of the Memory of Mother Mary in the Transfiguration Brotherhood.” Bulletin of the Russian Christian movement, no. 200, 2012, pp. 120–
“Pilgrimage to Ravensbruck.” Bulletin of the Russian Orthodox Church, no. 193, 2008. P. 300.
“‘Leader, Friend, Father’: Mother Maria (Skobtsova) and Prot. Sergiy (Bulgakov).” N. Bulgakov: Religious and Philosophical Path: International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 130^th Anniversary of his Birth, March 5-7, 2001. Moscow, Russkii put' Publ., 2003, pp. 312–330.

Scopus / Web of Science Publications

“Mystery Tradition in M. Prishvin’s Novel The Worldly Cup.” Quaestio Rossica, vol. 12, no. 2, 2024. pp. 492–505.
“I Will Return / Come Back to you Unrecognized”: the Fate of Poetry of Mother Maria in Post Soviet Russia and in France.” Studia Litterarum, vol. 3, no 2, 2018, pp. 196–229. In Russ.