D.Sc. in Philology

Professor

Research interests: Old Testament exegesis, Russian Orthodox liturgical poetics and musicology, Ilya Zdanevich, Andrei Platonov, Contemporary Russian women writers, 19th Century Russian Literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolay Gogol’.

Selected Works

Books

- Personalism as Poetics: the World of Fiction through Its Inhabitants' Eyes / Personalizm kak poetika. Literaturnyj mir glazami ego obitatelej. St. Petersburg, Russia: Pushkinskij dom, 2009. 432 p. In Russ./Eng.

- A Free Thing: the Poetics of Re-Familiarization in Andrei Platonov's Work, in Russian. Oakland, CA: Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1997. Republished by Novosibirsk, Russia: Nauka, 2000. 121 p. In English.

- Dostoevsky's Taboos. Dresden, Germany: Dresden University Press/ The Harriman Institute Series, Columbia U, 1998. 232 p. In English.

Translations

- Charles Homer Giblin, S.J. Apokalipsis: Otkrytaia kniga prorochestva (The Open Book of Revelation). Paris-Moscow: Symbol (Alexander Mossine, Ed.), 1994.

Articles

- "'Podrostok' kak vospitanie chuvstv" ["The Adolescent as Sentimental Education"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 2 (14), 2021, pp. 18-36. https://doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2021-2-18-36 In Russ.

- "Bibleiskie podteksty u Dostoevskogo kak arbitry pri tolkovanii spornykh mest" ["Biblical Subtexts as Arbiters for Ambiguous Passages"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 3 (7), 2019, pp. 34-51. https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2019-3-34-51 In Russ.

- "Istina kak chuzhoe slovo u Dostoevskogo" ["The Truth as a Different Word in Dostoevsky"]. Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Al'manakh, no. 34, 2016, pp. 9-29. In Russ.

- "Avraam i Isaak - svideteli pokoiania Raskol'nikova" ["Abraham and Isaac, witnesses of Raskolnikov's Repentance"]. Dostoevskij i mirovaia kul'tura. Al'manakh, no. 30, part 2, 2013, pp. 9-26. In Russ. 

- Olga Meerson, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, trans. "The Liturgical Heritage of Father Alexander Schmemann". St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly, no. 53, 3-Feb (2009), pp. 353-368. In English.

- "Liturgicheskoe nasledie prot. Aleksandra Shmemana" ["The Liturgical Heritage of Father Alexander Shmemann"]. Novaia Evropa, no. 20, 2008, pp. 108-119. In Russ.

- "Chetvertyi brat ili kozel otpushcheniia ex-machina?" ["The Fourth Brother or Scapegoat ex-machina?"]. Roman F.M. Dostoevskogo "Brat'ia Karamazovy": sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia [Dostoevsky's Novel The Brothers Karamazov: Current State of Research], ed. by T.A. Kasatkina, Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2007, pp. 565-604. In Russ.

- "Khristos ili 'Kniaz'-Khristos'? Svidetel'stvo generala Ivolgina" ["Christ or 'Prince-Christ'? The Witness of General Ivolgin"]. Roman F.M. Dostoevskogo "Idiot": sovremennoe sostoianie izucheniia [Dostoevsky's Novel The Idiot: Current State of Research], ed. by T.A. Kasatkina, Moscow, Nasledie Publ., 2001, pp. 42-59. In English.

- "Andrei Platonov's Re-familiarization". Essays in Poetics. The Journal of the British Neo-Formalist Circle, no. 26, 2001, pp. 21-37. In English.

- "Ivolgin and Holbein: Non-Christ Risen vs. Christ Non-Risen". Slavic and East European Journal, no. 39 (2), 1995, pp. 200-213. In English.