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. Merezhkovsky and Napoleon. Bulletin of St. Tikhon University for the Humanities. Series III. Philology. 3 (2017): 159–166. (In Russ.)

2. Naturalism: A case of a Detalized Vocabulary Entry. Bulletin of the MSU. Series 9 “Philology” 2 (2017): 31–43. (In Russ.)

3. On the Symbolism of Thomas Mann. Studia Litterarum 2:3 (2017): 118–137. (In Russ.)

4. Joseph Conrad and His Novel Lord Jim. In Conrad, J. Lord Jim. Saint-Petersburg: Vita Nova Publ., 2016: 451–520. (In Russ.)

5. 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.)

6. 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.)

7. Naturalist and Dreyfusard. Literaturnaya Gazeta 13 (2015): 1-60. (In Russ.)

8. 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.)

9. 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.)

10. 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.

11. Gerontion by T.S. Eliot. Bulletin of St. Tikhon University for the Humanities. Series III. Philology 23:1 (2011): 79-95. (In Russ.)

12. 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. Literature and Revolution. XX Century. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Popova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: Litfact Publ., 2018. Issue 4. 544 p.

2.Wassermann, J. Caspar Hauser or the Inertia of the Heart: A Scholarly Edition, ed. by Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Ladomir, Nauka Publ., 2017.

3. Literature and Ideology. XX Century. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: MAKS Press, 2016. Issue 3. 400 p.

4. Foreign Literature of the XX Century. In 2 vols, ed. by. Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Yurait Publ., 2014.

5. Eliot T.S. The Waste Land. A Scholarly Edition, ed. by Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Ladomir, Nauka Publ., 2014.

6. Foreign Literature at the Turn of the XIX-XX Centuries, ed. by. Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Yurait Publ., 2013.

7. Literature and War. XX Century. Ed. by O. Panova, V. Tolmatchoff. Moscow: MAKS Press, 2013. 332 p.

8. Conrad, J. The Secret Agent. Under Western Eyes. A Scholarly Edition, ed. by Tolmatchoff V. Moscow: Ladomir, Nauka Publ., 2012.

9. 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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