Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor Hab. of Philology, professor

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PhD thesis:

The Problem of Fictional Time in the American Literature of the 1920-1930-ies: F.S. Fitzgerald, T. Wolfe.

Habilitation thesis:

American Novel of the 1920-ies: the Problem of the Method.

Research interests:

  • American literature of the second half of the XIX century – first half of the XX century,
  • Western European literatures of the second half of the XIX century – first half of the XX century,
  • comparative studies of the Western and Russian naturalism, symbolism, modernism

Teaching experience:

History of Foreign Literature of the Late XIX Century - XX Century

Special Courses: American Literature of the Late XIX Century - the First Half of XX Century; US Literature from H. James to W. Faulkner: Close Reading of the Classical Texts; American Literature at the Turn of XIX-XX Centuries.

Selected bibliography:

Articles:

  1. Joyce’s Symbolism. Lomonosov Philology Journal. Series 9. Philology, no. 2, 2024, pp. 134–154. (In Russ.)
  2. To the Symbolism of T.S. Eliot's Anthological Poem. Literature of the Americas, no. 13, 2022, pp. 61 –108. (In Russ.)
  3. How Madame Bovary Is Written (Flaubert and His Narrator). Part 2. St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, no. 71, 2022, pp. 58–84. (In Russ.)
  4. How Madame Bovary Is Written (Flaubert and His Narrator). Part 1. St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, no. 70, 2022, pp. 33–62. (In Russ.)
  5. Paradoxes of the Romantical Search for Absolute and Balzac’s ‘Le chef-d’œuvre inconnu’. Part II. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 9. Philology, no. 2, 2022, pp. 80–97. (In Russ.)
  6. On the Narrator in Madame Bovary. Literaturovedcheskii zhurnal, no. 3 (53), 2021, pp. 49–71. (In Russ.)
  7. To the Understanding of W.B. Yeats’s Literary Biography and Imagery. St. Tikhon’s University Review. Philology, no. 68, 2021, pp. 41–65. (In Russ.)
  8. Paradoxes of the Romantical Search for Absolute and Balzac’s ‘Le chef-d’œuvre inconnu’. Part I. Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 9. Philology, no. 2, 2021, pp. 93–112. (In Russ.)
  9. T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound: To the History of Creative Contacts. Literature of the Americas, no. 7, 2019, pp. 248–321. (In Russ.)
  10. Merezhkovsky and Napoleon. Bulletin of St. Tikhon University for the Humanities. Series III. Philology. 3 (2017): 159–166. (In Russ.)
  11. Naturalism: A case of a Detalized Vocabulary Entry. Bulletin of the MSU. Series 9 “Philology” 2 (2017): 31–43. (In Russ.)
  12. On the Symbolism of Thomas Mann. Studia Litterarum 2:3 (2017): 118–137. (In Russ.)
  13. Joseph Conrad and His Novel Lord Jim. In Conrad, J. Lord Jim. Saint-Petersburg: Vita Nova Publ., 2016: 451–520. (In Russ.)
  14. Jakob Wassermann. In History of the German Literature of the XX Century. Vol. 1. 1880-1945. Book 1. Literature of Germany in 1880–1918-ies. Moscow, IMLI RAN Publ., 2016: 229–248. (In Russ.)
  15. A. Blok and H. Ibsen: a Case of Comparative Studies. Bulletin of St. Tikhon University for the Humanities. Series III. Philology. 47:2 (2016): 45–61. (In Russ.)
  16. Naturalist and Dreyfusard. Literaturnaya Gazeta 13 (2015): 1-60. (In Russ.)
  17. Where to Search for the XX Century? In Foreign Literature of the XX Century. In 2 vols. Vol. 1. The first half of the XX Century, ed. by. Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Yurait Publ., 2014: 16–72. (In Russ.)
  18. War and Culture, Culture of the War? In Literature and War. XX Century, ed. by O. Panova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: MAKS Press, 2013. (In Russ.)
  19. Oscar Wilde as a Reader of French Naturalism. Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism: Miscellanies in Honour of Anna Gural-Migdal. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013.
  20. Gerontion by T.S. Eliot. Bulletin of St. Tikhon University for the Humanities. Series III. Philology 23:1 (2011): 79-95. (In Russ.)
  21. Death on Stage: Ibsen and Chekhov. In Chekhoviana. Chekhov: A Glance from the XX Century, editor-in-chief Kataev V. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 2011. (In Russ.)

Books:

  1. Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol in Prose. Saint Petersburg, Vita nova Publ., 2023. (In Russ.)
  2. A Man in the Expressionist Art, ed. I. Nikolskaia, V. Tolmatchoff, N. Khrenov et al. Saint Petersburg, Aleteiia Publ., 2022. (In Russ.)
  3. Literature and Art. The 20th Century, ed. O.Yu. Panova, V.Yu. Popova, V.M. Tolmatchoff. Мoscow, Litfakt Publ., 2020. (In Russ.)
  4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The House of Life: Academic edition, trans. V. Nekliaev, ed. V.M. Tolmatchoff. Moscow, Ladomir, Nauka Publ., 2018. (In Russ.)
  5. Literature and Revolution. XX Century. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Popova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: Litfact Publ., 2018. Issue 4. 544 p.
  6. Wassermann, J. Caspar Hauser or the Inertia of the Heart: A Scholarly Edition, ed. by Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Ladomir, Nauka Publ., 2017.
  7. Literature and Ideology. XX Century. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: MAKS Press, 2016. Issue 3. 400 p.
  8. Foreign Literature of the XX Century. In 2 vols, ed. by. Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Yurait Publ., 2014.
  9. Eliot T.S. The Waste Land. A Scholarly Edition, ed. by Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Ladomir, Nauka Publ., 2014.
  10. Foreign Literature at the Turn of the XIX-XX Centuries, ed. by. Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Yurait Publ., 2013.
  11. Literature and War. XX Century. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: MAKS Press, 2013. 332 p.
  12. Conrad, J. The Secret Agent. Under Western Eyes. A Scholarly Edition, ed. by Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Ladomir, Nauka Publ., 2012.
  13. From Romanticism to Romanticism: American Novel of the 1920-ies and the Problem of Romantic Culture. Moscow: MSU Publ., 1997.

Membership:

The T.S.Eliot Society

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