Maya A. Kucherskaya
- Professor:Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies
- Programme Academic Supervisor:Creative Writing
- Tenured Professor (2016)
- Maya A. Kucherskaya has been at HSE University since 2002.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
- 2011Professor
- 1999
PhD in Cultural Studies
University of California
Thesis Title: Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich Romanov in Russian cultural mythology - 1997
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Russian Literature
Lomonosov Moscow State University - 1992
Degree
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
UCLA, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1992-1995
Professional interests
- Nikolay Leskov: his biography, prose, and journalism
- Russian mass literature in the second half of the XIX century
- Contemporary Russian prose
- European literature of the twentieth century
Courses (2023/2024)
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Literary Reputations and Strategies in Russian Fiction of the second half of the XIXth century - beginning of the XXth centuries" (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Literary Reputations and Strategies in Russian Fiction of the second half of the XIXth century - beginning of the XXth centuries" (Optional course (faculty); 1-3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Autobiographical Story (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Autobiographical Story (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 4 year, 2 module)Rus
Contemporary Russian Literature: Actors and Institutions (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "45.04.01. Филология", field of study "45.04.01. Филология"; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- Autobiographical Story (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Contemporary Russian Literature: Actors and Institutions (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "45.04.01. Филология", field of study "45.04.01. Филология"; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Literatury Workshop (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction: Prose (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Popular Literature as a Social and Cultural Phenomenon (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Text Analysis" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
Contemporary Russian Literature: Actors and Institutions (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "45.04.01. Филология", field of study "45.04.01. Филология"; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Literatury Workshop (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Literatury Workshop (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
Contemporary Russian Literature: Actors an Institutions (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; field of study "45.04.01. Филология", field of study "45.04.01. Филология"; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History and Poetics of Fiction (18-20 cent.) (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Literatury Workshop (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2022Теории и практики литературного мастерства (Москва). Presentation: «Лесопильная музыка рам»: как учили писать на ленинградских фабриках и заводах в 1930-е годы
- Лотмановские чтения (Москва). Presentation: На какую войну собрался Иван Северьянович?
- 2021Теории и практики литературного мастерства (Москва). Presentation: Дидактическая поэтика Бродского
- 53rd Annual Convention of the ASEEES (New Orlean). Presentation: What Leskov is Made of?
- 2020Лесковские чтения (Орел). Presentation: «Языки человеческие в ранней прозе Лескова (на материале рассказа «Засуха»)
- Теории и практики литературного мастерства (Москва). Presentation: Анекдот-быль-повесть: генеративная поэтика Лескова
- AATSEEL (San Diego). Presentation: “Stop Writing About Moonshine!”— How Rural Correspondents Were Trained in the 1920s
- 2019Карабихские научные чтения (Ярославская область, Ярославский р-н, п/о Красные Ткачи, д. Карабиха). Presentation: О возможном источнике массовых сцен в поэме Некрасова «Кому на Руси жить хорошо»
- Теории и практики литературного мастерства (Москва). Presentation: «Брось писать о самогоне»: Как и чему учили писать в 1920-е годы?
- The 2019 ASEEES Annual Convention. Convention Theme: "Belief" (San-Francisco). Presentation: Professor Brodsky: between freedom and didacticism
- “Поэзия” и “правда”: фикциональное и нон-фикциональное в истории литературы (Москва). Presentation: Pedagogical poems Иосифа Бродского
- Лотмановские чтения (Москва). Presentation: Очерки лесковской энтомологии: еще раз о претекстах «Левши»
- 201850th Annual Convention of ASEEES as a scholarly society. Convention Theme: “Performance” (Boston). Presentation: Priests and Brooms: Towards a History of Literary Education of Russia
- Лотмановские чтения (Москва). Presentation: «Самовитое слово» в прозе Н.С.Лескова (на материале цикла «Заметки неизвестного»)
- 2017Эффекты правдоподобия: режимы и концепции реализма в русской литературе (Москва). Presentation: Феатр Лескова: реквизит "Тупейного художника"
- Коллоквиум "Творчество Н.С. Лескова" (Брно). Presentation: "Сказ о тульском косом левше и стальной блохе" Н.С. Лескова как литературная пародия
- «'Разумное, доброе, вечное…': проблемы производства, сохранения и распространения культуры в России от некрасовской эпохи до современности (усадьба, литература, музей) (Ярославль). Presentation: П.И. Якушкин и немецкий романтический канон
- 2016Лотмановский семинар (Тарту). Presentation: Где суд, там и неправда: новые источники рассказа Лескова «Владычный суд»
- Международная научная конференция «Чины и музы: писатели на государственной службе» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Столоначальник Лесков (по материалам Центрального государственного исторического архива Украины, г. Киев
48th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (Вашингтон). Presentation: There is a Court, There is No Truth: New Sources of Leskov's story "Episcopal Justice"
- "Свое" и "чужое" у Н.С.Лескова. Presentation: «Сказ о тульском косом левше» и пропагандистская литература эпохи Крымской войны
- Международная научная конференция «Чины и музы: писатели на государственной службе» (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Столоначальник Лесков (по материалам Центрального исторического архива города Киева)
- 2015Некрасов в контексте русской культуры (Ярославль). Presentation: Некрасов и Байрон: к проблеме литературного пиратства
- Маргиналии-2015: границы культуры и текста (Полоцк). Presentation: "Кому на Руси жить хорошо" как романтическая поэма
- Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (Филадельфия ). Presentation: The Flea’s Adventures: On the History of the Soviet Theatrical Productions of Leskov’s 'Lefty'
- Русский литературный канон: центры и периферии. (Краков). Presentation: Как попадают в классики? Случай Н.С.Лескова
- XIII КОНГРЕСС МАПРЯЛ «Русский язык и литература в пространстве мировой культуры» (Гранада). Presentation: Приключения блохи: к истории канонизации Лескова
- 2014BASEES Annual Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (Cambridge). Presentation: Leskov’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District as an answer to the ideological polemics of the 1860s
- VI Лотмановские дни в Таллинском университете (Таллин). Presentation: Имперские амбиции в литературе: почему удалось издать биографию Лескова?
- ХХIV Всероссийские Тургеневские чтения. Presentation: "Песнь торжествующей любви" Тургенева как претекст "Тупейного художника" Лескова
- «Маргиналии-2014: границы культуры и текста» ( Елец (Липецкой обл. России)). Presentation: Европейская бытовая преступность и ее влияние на русскую жизнь: "Леди Макбет Мценского уезда"
- Лотмановские чтения (Москва). Presentation: Полезное соседство: Н.С.Лесков в работе над автобиографией
- 2013Некрасов в контексте русской культуры» (Ярославль). Presentation: Профетизм Некрасова
- 2012МЕЖДУНАРОДНЫЙ КОНГРЕСС "МНОГОЯЗЫЧИЕ КУЛЬТУРЫ", посвященный 90-летию Ю.М. Лотмана (Тарту). Presentation: Миссионерское многоязычие Н.С.Лескова
- Литература и социальные науки. (Москва). Presentation: Литературные опыты Лескова и политика русской православной церкви в 1870-е годы.
Маргиналии-2012: границы культуры и текста (Касимов, Рязанская область). Presentation: Край света или круг ада: античность у Лескова
- РУССКАЯ ДРАМАТУРГИЯ XIX ВЕКА И ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЙ ПРОЦЕСС: ПАМЯТИ АННЫ ИВАНОВНЫ ЖУРАВЛЕВОЙ. Presentation: Языковые ключи в драме А.Н.Островского "Гроза"
- Маргиналии-2012: границы культуры и текста (Касимов, Рязанская область). Presentation: Край света или круг ада: античность у Лескова
- И. А. Гончаров в контексте ХХI века. Presentation: Downshifting versus “comme il faut” в романах И.А. Гончарова
Articles and book chapters5
- Article Kucherskaya M. A. “Episcopal Justice”: Nikolaj Leskov’s life experience and Jewish question // Scando-Slavica. 2018. Vol. 64. No. 2. P. 121-134. doi
- Article Kucherskaya M. A. Journalist, Reader and Writer: Investigating Leskov’s Creative Method // Scando-Slavica. 2016. Vol. 62. No. 2. P. 58-78. doi
- Article Kucherskaya M. A. Literary Borrowing in the Work of N.S. Leskov: A Case Study of The Spendthrift // Russian Review. 2016. No. 1. P. 67-85.
- Article Kucherskaya M. A. Gogol’ as a Character in N.S. Leskov’s ‘Putimec' // Russian Literature. 2015. Vol. 77. No. 3. P. 367-382.
- Article Kucherskaya M. A. Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk district: About Leskov's Literariness // Toronto Slavic Quarterly. 2010. No. 33. P. 261-285.
‘Projects Will Bring Research Teams Together’
A number of new projects will form the basis of the educational and scholarly activity at HSE’s School of Philology. These projects will allow the School to expand its scholarly breadth, consolidate its active research teams, and engage new colleagues in collaboration. HSE News Service spoke with School Head Evgeny Kazartsev about the new projects, their anticipated outcomes, and what changes will need to be made in order to bring them to fruition.
Alexei Ivanov Explains How to Write a Historical Novel
The meeting with the acclaimed writer was organized as part of the ‘Literary Wednesdays’ project
Maya Kucherskaya and Marina Stepnova Hold Creative Writing Workshops in Kazan
Meetings took place on the 10th and 11th of March that were dedicated to the history of Creative Writing in Russia and to the techniques of creating fictional heroes.
Maya Kucherskaya at a Meeting for Readers and a Creative Writing Workshop at the Yeltsin Center
Academic Supervisor of the Creative Writing MA Programme explains how to turn reality into fiction
HSE School of Philology Researchers at ASEEES Conference in Washington
Elena Zemskova, Elena Ostrovskaya, Maya Kucherskaya, Alexey Vdovin, and Pavel Nerler spoke on various aspects of the history of Russian literature and culture.
New Tenured Professors at HSE
On April 29, 2016 at the Academic Council meeting 25 HSE Professors were conferred the status of Tenured Professor.
Debating the Next Nobel Laureate
On October 8, 2015, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced. The favourites among bookmakers are the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, and Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o. HSE scholars share their opinions on the most likely contenders.