Margarita Balakireva
- 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.
Degrees
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 (2025/2026)
- Collective Creation in 20th-century Culture: Theory and Practice of Creative Communities (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities field of study Philology; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Collective Creation in 20th-century Culture: Theory and Practice of Creative Communities (Mago-Lego; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 module)Rus
- Collective Creation in France in XIX-XX Centuries: History and Evolution of Literary Groups (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 2 module)Rus
- European and American Literature of the First Half of the 20th Century (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- European and Pan-American Literature of the Second Half of the 20th and Early 21St Centuries (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 3, 4 module)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, 2 module)Rus
- Western Canon (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Western Canon (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Western Canon (Mago-Lego; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
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
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
Conferences
- 2026
«Великое переселение идей, понятий, образов: между очевидным/неочевидным» (Санкт-Петербург ). Presentation: «Мыслить коллективное: проблема сообщества во французском авангарде середины XX в.»
- 2025
«"Праздник Митиного журнала": неофициальная советская культура в эпоху Перестройки» (Санкт-Петербург ). Presentation: «О «диссидентах» и «дилетантах»: переводы с французского в «Митином журнале» 1980-1990-х гг.»
- 2024
Сюрреализм и миф. Мифы о сюрреализме. К 100-летию создания движения в литературе и искусстве (Москва). Presentation: «« Résurrection du cadavre » : миф о сюрреализме в бельгийском журнале «Левр Ню» (1954-1958)
РОССИЯ / СССР И ЗАПАД. ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ КОНТАКТЫ. ХХ ВЕК (Москва). Presentation: «Подпольный авангард»: переводы и рецепция французской литературы в ленинградских самиздатских журналах в 1970-1980е гг.»
Fonctions du surréalisme (Turino). Presentation: «La réception de l’œuvre surréaliste en URSS : le cas du samizdat de Leningrad (1970-1980)»
- 2023
Rossiсa: Русская литература в мировом культурном контексте. Музыка как тема, структура и генератор литературных взаимодействий (Москва). Presentation: «Влияние идей русских анархистов на французскую авангардную мысль»
РОССИЯ / СССР И ЗАПАД. ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫЕ КОНТАКТЫ. ХХ ВЕК (Москва). Presentation: «Рецепция французского «нового романа» в журналах «Вопросы литературы» и «Иностранная литература» в 1950-е–1970-е гг.»
- 2022
VII международная конференция к столетию проф. Л.Г. Андреева (Москва). Presentation: «Экспериментальные исследования в авангарде: разрушающая сила познания (опыты сюрреалистов и группы «Grand jeu»)
Фантастическое в литературе и культуре конца XIX – первой трети ХХ века (Москва). Presentation: ««Очарование смерти»: фрагментарное письмо Жака Риго как опыт чудесного»
ISSS SURREALISMS 2022 (Houston, Texas). Presentation: « A la recherche d’une communauté : transfiguration du collectif dans le surréalisme après la Seconde guerre mondiale (étude croisée des surréalistes français et belges) »
- 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