Margarita Balakireva
- Head, Associate Professor: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of Foreign Languages
- Margarita Balakireva has been at HSE University since 2018.
Education and Degrees
Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2023–2024
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2015–2016)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Collective Creation in France in XIX-XX Centuries: History and Evolution of Literary Groups (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- European and American Literature of the 20Th Century (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Modern Foreign Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Modern Foreign Literature (Optional course (faculty); 4 module)Rus
- Political writing in literature (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities)Rus
- Research Seminar "History of French Literature: Text and Context" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "History of French Literature: Text and Context" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-3 module)Rus
- Texts and Contexts of the French Culture (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- The marginal in French literature and phenomenon of “small literature”: dialects, regionalisms, argo (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- American and European Literary History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Collective Creation in France in XIX-XX Centuries: History and Evolution of Literary Groups (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Modern Foreign Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- New French Literature in the post-colonial era. Case study of literature in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and African countries (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "History of French Literature: Text and Context" (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "History of French Literature: Text and Context" (Optional course (faculty); 1-3 module)Rus
- The history of colonization in Francophone literature in XVIII-XXI centuries (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- American and European Literary History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Collective Creation in France in XIX-XX Centuries: History and Evolution of Literary Groups (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (French) (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Transnational Writing in XX-XXI Centuries: Conceptions, Texts, Discourses (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- American and European Literary History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Collective Creation in France in XIX-XX Centuries: History and Evolution of Literary Groups (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Foreign Language (French) (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "History of French Literature: Text and Context" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "History of French Literature: Text and Context" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "History of French Literature: Text and Context" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Foreign Language (French) (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Foreign Language (French) (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Second Foreign Language (French) (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Political Science; 3 year, 1-4 module)Eng
Conferences
- 2019
VI Андреевская международная научная конференция «Лики XX века: Литература и искусства» (Москва). Presentation: Сюрреалистическая выставка в 1930–1940-х гг.: лирическая «суперструктура» v.s. место памяти.
- 2016
Международная научная конференция «1ОО РАЗ ДАDA» (Москва). Presentation: Дада и Неодада: реконструкция коллективной памяти
Dada > 100 : Life / Art / Museum. Dadaism and Performing Arts (Cluj-Napoca). Presentation: Paradoxe de "collective creation" : création du champ perceptif commun dans l’œuvre collective d’(néo)avant-garde française
- 2015
XLIV Международная филологическая конференция (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Коллективное / индивидуальное: роль группового творчества во французском сюрреализме 20-30-х годов
VI всероссийская конференция студентов, аспирантов и молодых учёных «Философия. Язык. Культура». (Москва). Presentation: «Mon pote à moi» : проблема иерархии студент / преподаватель в обучении иностранному языку
Международная научная конференция «Мифологические образы в литературе и искусстве» (Москва). Presentation: Миф коллективный versus миф индивидуальный в сюрреализме 20-30-х годов