D.Sc. in Philology
Professor
Research Interests: Russian Philology, Literary theory, History of 19th-century literature, Literary semiotics, Comparative Literature.
Ph.D. Thesis: Тhe Brothers Karamazov – literary character, plot, narration, intertextuality. (1992)
Dr.Hab. Thesis: Classical Modernism. The Paradoxes of the Turgenevian Novel – Rudin. (2003)
D.Sc. Thesis: Literary Continuity. The Poetics of Mediatory Formations in Dostoevsky’s Works. (2013)
Selected Works:
Books
- "Tvorcheskoe slovo" F.M. Dostoevskogo - geroi, tekst, intertekst [Dostoevsky's Creative Word. Hero, Text, Intertext]. Saint Petersburg, Akademicheskii proekt, 2005. 288 p. In Russ.
- Intertekstual'naia poetika romana I.S. Turgeneva "Rudin". Chteniia po russkoi i evropeiskoi literature [The Intertextual Poetics of Turgenev's Novel Rudin. Lectures on Russian and European Literature]. Saint Petersburg, Akademicheskii proekt, Izdatel'stvo DNK, 2008. 248 p. In Russ.
- Korunk hőse – Korunk irodalomszemiotikája? Karakterpoétika és olvasásszemiotika Lermontov regényében. Budapest, L’Harmattan, 2020. 288 p. ISBN: 978-963-414-597-4. In Hungarian.
Articles
- "Zapiski iz podpol'ia F.M. Dostoevskogo v svete literaturnoi traditsii: Semioticheskaia postanovka voprosa" ["Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground in the Light of Literary Tradition: A Semiotic Statement"]. Issledovaniia Znakovykh Sistem, 48(2/4), 2020, pp. 326–349. In Russ.
- "From the Formalist to the Semiotic Theory of Literature". Communications, n°103, « Le formalisme russe cent ans après ». Numéro dirigé par Catherine Depretto, John Pier et Philippe Roussin, Paris, Le Seuil, 2018(2), pp. 247–264. In English.
- "Intermediary Semantic Formations in White Nights". Reid, R. and Andrew, J. (eds.) Aspects of Dostoevskii. Art Ethics and Faith. Amsterdam – New York, NY, Rodopi, 2012, pp- 27–49. In English.
- "'Prorochestvo' kak universalia siuzheta i teksta v perspektive dinamiki smyslorozhdeniia (Konteksty predskazaniia v romane L. Tolstogo 'Voina i mir')" ["'Prophecy' as a Universal of Plot and Text in the Prospective of a Dynamics of Meaning-Making (The Context of Prediction in Leo Tolstoy's Novel War and Peace)"]. Universalii russkoi literatury 3. Sbornik stat'ei. Ed. by A.A. Faustova. Voronezh, Nauchnaia kniga Publ., 2011, pp. 318–335. In Russ.
Teaching Experience
From 1989 at Eötvös Loránd University.
Most important University Appointments
Director of interdisciplinary MA program in Semiotics at ELTE (2011 – date)
Director of the ELTE Ph.D. Program "Russian Literature and Literary Studies – Comparatistics" (2008 – date)