DSc in Philology
Education:
1980–1985: Leningrad State University, Faculty of Philology
PhD thesis:
“Chevengur” by Andrey Platonov (On the Creative History of the Novel) (1992)
DSc (Habil.) thesis:
Andrey Platonov: The Poetics of the Riddle (On the Formation and Evolution of the Style) (2005)
Research interests:
socialist realism, Soviet cinema, cultural recycling
Academic publications (9 in total):
Articles:
- Socialist Realism as a MacGuffin. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 4, 2025, pp. 118–133. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365_2025_194_4_118
- A Guilty Pleasure, or The Rhetoric of Dance in Soviet Film of the 1930s. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 1, 2025, pp. 83–104. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365_2025_191_1_83
- How Is the Recycling of the Future Possible? (The Case of “Living and Adult” by Sergei Yu. Kuznetsov). Detskie chteniia, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 238–259. https://doi.org/10.31860/2304-5817-2025-1-27-238-259
- Against Narratology (On One Technique of Reading). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 4, 2023, pp. 61–83. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365_2023_182_4_61
- Nostalgia for Trauma (“Prize” Literature Nominated of 2019 and the Soviet Past). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 1, 2023, pp. 219–237. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365_2023_179_1_219
- What Did the Soviet Classic Want to Say, but Did not Say? (Speech by M.A. Sholokhov at the Second All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers). Russkaia literatura, no. 3, 2023, pp. 217–230. https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2023-3-217-230
- “Cultural Recycling”: A Contribution to the History of the Concept (1960s—1990s). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 3, 2021, pp. 13–32.
- Who Wrote Nikolai Shpanov’s “Incendiaries”? (General Observations on a Particular Case). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2020. № 4. С. 92–108.
- Conceived by Stalin — Made by Khrushchev (Once Again About the Second All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers of the USSR). Russkaia literatura, no. 3, 2020, pp. 232–241. https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2020-3-232-241
