Dimitri Tokarev
- Deputy Head, Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of Philology
- Dimitri Tokarev has been at HSE University since 2016.
Education and Degrees
- 2007
Doctor of Sciences* in Russian literature
Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences
Thesis Title: Philosophical and aesthetic fundaments of the poetics of Daniil Kharms - 1998PhD
- 1991
Degree in Russian as a Foreign Language
Saint Petersburg State University, Philological
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
1992/1993 : St. Petersburg University French College, student in D.E.R. (diplôme d’études et de recherche) in French literature
1993/1994 : University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I), student in D.E.A. (diplôme d’études approfondies) in Russian and comparative literature
1994/1998 : University of Provence (Aix-Marseille I), Ph.D. student in Russian and comparative literature, topic The Phenomenon of the literature of the absurd in Russian and French literatures: Samuel Beckett and Daniil Kharms, defended on 18 December 1998 cum laude
Student Term / Thesis Papers
- Bachelor
D. Sharashkina, French Writers of the 19th Century on the Phenomenon of Dandyism. School of Arts and Humanities, 2020
M. Kiselevich, The Comparative Analysis of Dostoevsky's Pushkin Speech (1880) and Ernest Renan's Speech «What is Nation?» (1882): Ideology, Rhetoric, Reception. School of Arts and Humanities, 2020
S. Sargsian, The Novel of W. Jensen's Gradiva and its Reception in Psychoanalysis and in Surreal Art. School of Arts and Humanities, 2020
A. Gavrilova, Baudelairean Motives in Parisian Novels of the Russian Emigration of the First Wave. School of Arts and Humanities, 2020
A. Zakirova, Samuel Beckett and Abstract Art: Texts About Artworks and Artworks in the Texts. School of Arts and Humanities, 2019
Courses (2020/2021)
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Visual in literature: the Problems of Intermedial Analysis" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Texts and Contexts of the French Culture (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
Courses (2019/2020)
- Beyond the world of words: non-verbal components of culture (Minor; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Visual in literature: the Problems of Intermedial Analysis" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Texts and Contexts of the French Culture (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2018/2019)
- American and European Literary History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Beyond the world of words: non-verbal components of culture (Minor; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3, 4 module)Rus
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
- American and European Literary History (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Beyond the world of words: non-verbal components of culture (Minor; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Psychology (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2016/2017)
- History of World Literature (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Ecphrasis and Representations of the Visual in Russian Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- The Origins of the Human Sciences: Rhetoric, Philosophy, Historiography (Minor; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1, 2 module)Rus
Books2
- Book Токарев Д. В. «Между Индией и Гегелем»: Творчество Бориса Поплавского в компаративной перспективе. М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 2011.
- Book Токарев Д. В. Курс на худшее: Абсурд как категория текста у Даниила Хармса и Сэмюэля Беккета. М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 2002.
Articles and book chapters20
- Article Токарев Д. В. «Гегель труден, но лучше, то есть ближе, не напишешь»: романы Бориса Поплавского как «гегелевский текст» русской литературы // Новое литературное обозрение. 2019. Т. 156. С. 41-59.
- Article Токарев Д. В. Державин в гостях у Спинозы: мистика и поэтика Севера в "Сценах из жизни Спинозы" Николая Гронского // Scando-Slavica. 2019. Т. 65. № 2. С. 192-211. doi
- Chapter Токарев Д. В. "Диалектика свободы": Статья Бориса Поплавского «Личность и общество» в свете гегелевской диалектики господства и рабства и ее интерпретации Александром Кожевом // В кн.: Литература и революция. Век двадцатый Вып. 4: серия "Литература. Век двадцатый". М. : Литфакт, 2018. С. 113-130.
- Article Tokarev Dmitry. In ‘the Paradise of Friends’: Boris Poplavskii’s Novel, Homeward from Heaven, in the Light of Alexandre Kojève’s Seminar on Hegel // Slavonic and East European Review. 2018. Vol. 96. No. 2. P. 181-207. doi
- Article Tokarev Dimitri. Les auditeurs russes « inaperçus » (Gordin, Tarr, Poplavskij) du séminaire hégélien d’Alexandre Kojève à l’Ecole pratique des hautes études, 1933-1939 // Revue des etudes slaves. 2017. Vol. 88. No. 3. P. 495-514.
- Article Tokarev Dimitri. «Lost in Translation» : les problèmes linguistiques et conceptuels aux séances du Studio franco-russe à Paris (1929-1931) // Colloqium Helveticum. 2017. No. 46. P. 109-130.
- Chapter Токарев Д. В. «Их Бодлер». Восприятие Бодлера в русской эмиграции первой волны: Берберова, Адамович, Поплавский // В кн.: По, Бодлер, Достоевский: блеск и нищета национального гения. М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 2017. С. 363-375.
- Chapter Токарев Д. В. Сибирь как аллегория и Сибирь как символ в двух французских переводных романах начала XIX в. («Русский курьер» Аделаиды де Бреси и «Елизавета, или Сибирские изгнанники» Мари-Софи Коттен) // В кн.: Из истории русской переводной художественной литературы первой четверти XIX века. СПб. : Издательство Нестор-История, 2017. С. 271-282.
- Article Tokarev Dmitry. “The Astral Fire of the Most-Pure Divine Magic”: a Portrait of the Emigré Poet Boris Poplavsky as a Magus // Russian Literature. 2017. Vol. 93-94. P. 267-289. doi
- Chapter Tokarev Dimitri. Deux réponses russes au problème de la violence : Léon Tolstoï et Ivan Iline, in: After Paris 13.11.15 : Conflits, exodes, attentats. P. : Manucius, 2016. P. 105-109.
- Article Tokarev Dimitri. « L’art est une lettre personnelle » : le discours autobiographique dans la fiction et les journaux intimes de Boris Poplavskij // Modernités russes. 2016. No. 16. P. 185-204.
- Chapter Tokarev Dmitrii. Escape from Utopia : The Metamorphoses of Utopian Dreams in the Russian Avant-Garde in Exile (Il’ya Zdanevich, Boris Poplavskii), in: Utopia: the Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)Possible Life. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015. P. 411-424.
- Article Tokarev Dimitri. Les illuminations d’un Rimbaud russe : Boris Poplavsky et son Journal d’Apollon Bézobrazov // Revue de littérature comparée. 2015. No. 1. P. 29-49.
- Article Tokarev Dimitri. Pierre Drieu la Rochelle à Moscou en 1935 : enjeux politiques, problèmes de traduction // Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France. 2015. No. 3. P. 693-707.
- Chapter Токарев Д. В. «Вот штука-то»: об отсутствии Казимира Малевича в стихотворении Даниила Хармса «На смерть Казимира Малевича» // В кн.: 1913. «СЛОВО КАК ТАКОВОЕ»: К юбилейному году русского футуризма. СПб. : Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 2015. С. 469-485.
- Article Токарев Д. В. «На дне парижского Иерусалима»: Париж в дневниках и романах Бориса Поплавского // Русская литература. 2014. № 1. С. 65-80.
- Article Tokarev Dimitri. “Regarder l’objet avec un œil nu” : le visuel et le verbal dans l’œuvre de Daniil Harms // Slavica occitania. 2014. No. 38. P. 15-37.
- Article Токарев Д. В. «Ничего не изменилось за две тысячи лет»: русская тема в творчестве Альфонса Мухи // Искусствознание. 2012. № 3-4. С. 376-389.
- Article Tokarev Dimitri. Le rôle et les métamorphoses des quatre éléments dans "La Nausée" de Sartre et "La Fin" de Beckett // Samuel Beckett Today - Aujourd hui. 2008. Vol. 20. P. 233-241.
- Article Токарев Д. В. Как пройти сквозь стену (Гийом Аполлинер, Юрий Владимиров, Даниил Хармс, Марсель Эме) // Новое литературное обозрение. 2006. № 80. С. 145-169.
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Employment history
2007 – : Leading researcher (ведущий научный сотрудник, доктор филологических наук) at the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature, St.Petersburg, Russia
February-March 2016 : Visiting Professor of Russian literature at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France
October 2015 – June 2016 : Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Nantes, France
2013-2014 : Associate Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Saint-Petersburg
October 2012- March 2013 : Visiting Researcher at the UMR 8547 CNRS-Ecole normale supérieure de Paris (Pays germaniques: transferts culturels)
1996-2007 : Researcher at the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature, St.Petersburg, Russia
2009 – 2012 : Professor of French and Comparative literature at the University of Economy, Faculty of Humanities, St.Petersburg
1999-2009 : Associate Professor of French and Comparative literature at the Institute of Foreign Languages, St.Petersburg
1992-1994 : Researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg
1991-1992 : Lecturer in Russian at the State Institute of Mines, St.Petersburg
