Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor Hab. of Philology, professor

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PhD thesis:

Poetry of Walt Whitman in 1855-60-ies: the Problem of the Creative Method

Habilitation thesis:

Making of Poetic Tradition in America in the XIX Century

Research interests:

• American and European literary history
• discourse and communication studies
• intercultural communication
• literary reception studies
• theory and history of reading
• comparative culture studies

Teaching experience:

History of foreign literature of the 2nd half of the XIX century; Literature as Communication,  Poetry as Communication, Pragmatics of Literary Texts

Selected bibliography:

Articles:

1. Who's Afraid of Harold Bloom? International literature 5 (2018): 259–265.

2. Professionalism at Its Best. Literature of the Americas 4 (2018): 297–308.

3. A Passion For The Canon: Twenty Years Ahead. Voprosy literatury. 3 (2018): 301-316. (In Russ.)

4. Fictions of Everyday Life as Politics: XX Century Interpretations of Classical Realism. In Literature and Revolution. XX Century. Issue 4. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Popova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: Litfact Publ., 2018: 309–314.

5. By Eye and by Touch: Visual Attractors in Herman Melville’s "Moby Dick". Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 146:4 (2017): 98–103.

6. In the Seraphyms’ Footfalls: between Poetry and Analytical Prose (reading “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe).  Literature of the Americas 2 (2017): 117–133

7. Literature of the Americas. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 146:4 (2017): 373–377.

8. The Fang of War: a Hieroglyph of Violence in “Moby Dick". In War in American Culture: Texts and Contexts. Moscow: RSUH Publ., 2017: 196–203.

9. What Is Bourgeois about the "Bourgeois Genre"? Ideology and the Novel. Literature and Ideology. XX Century. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: MAKS Press, 2016. Issue 3: 25–33.

10. "City Poetry “Soars to Prose”: Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire". In Urban Dimensions of American Civilization. University of Central Florida Orlando. Moscow, 2015. P. 27–34.

11.Literary Pragmatics: Structure Of A Project (Review Of Books On Literature As Communication). Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 135:5 (2015): 326–345.

12. The Human Face of Capitalism. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 125:1 (2014)

13. "Productive Imagination" as "Inefficient labor": On the History of the Culture of Reading. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 128:2 (2014).

Books:

1. Literature as Experience, or a Bourgeois Reader as a Culture Hero. Moscow: NLO Publ., 2017.

2. Stevens W. Harmonium. Imagination as Value, ed. by T. Venediktova, N. Azarova. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 2017.

3. Bases of the Theory of Communication, ed. by T. Venediktova, D. Gudkov, A. Borisenko. Moscow: Yurait Publ., 2016.

4. “Conversation in American”: Discourse of Bargaining in the American Literary Tradition. Moscow: NLO Publ., 2003).

5. Finding the Voice. Poetic Tradition in America. Moscow University Press, 1994

6. Self-Made Man as Image and Profile. The Experience of American Culture. Moscow: Mass Communications Institute, 1993

7. XX Century Poetry in America: Discovering the Modernity. Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1989.

8. Poetry of Walt Whitman. Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1982.

Membership:

European American Studies Association

Russian Society for American Culture Studies (RSACS)