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Alexey Vdovin

  • Alexey Vdovin has been at HSE University since 2012.

Education and Degrees

  • 2023

    Doctor of Sciences*
    HSE University

  • 2011

    PhD
    University of Tartu
    Thesis Title: The Concept of "Head of Literature" in the Russian Literary Criticism of the 1830-60s

  • 2007

    Degree
    Vyatka State University of Humanities

* Doctor of Sciences
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

August 30 - September 27, 2020 - online course "Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects" (Coursera, McMaster University, UC San Diego), with sertificate.

February 25 - March 10, 2019 - visiting fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK

August 27-29, 2018 - The 21th Fulbright Summer School, Moscow State University (speaker)

October 15  - November 29 2017 - visiting scholar, Jordan Center, New York University

June 25 - July 25, 2016 - visiting research fellow, Institut fuer Slawistik, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany

March 30 - April 22, 2016 - scholar-in-residence at Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington (USA)

November 1-30, 2015 - visiting research fellow, Institut fuer Slawistik, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany

Awards and Accomplishments

Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2016-2017)
Category "New Lecturers" (2013-2014)

Membership

The Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

Courses (2023/2024)

Courses (2022/2023)

Courses (2021/2022)

Courses (2020/2021)

Courses (2019/2020)

Courses (2018/2019)

Courses (2017/2018)

Publications

Books12

Articles34

Chapters in books37

Working Papers3

Reviews9

Translations2

Conferences

  • 2023
    AATSEEL 2023 (online ). Presentation: Marko Vovchok, Dostoevsky and the Debates on Popular Ukrainian and Russian Literature in 1860-61
  • 2022
    XLI Некрасовская конференция (Санкт-Петербург ). Presentation: Еще раз о загадке стихотворения Н.А. Некрасова «Демону»
  • 2021
    AATSEEL (Online ). Presentation: Making Peasants Sensible: The Paradox of Semi-Transparent Minds in Russian Pre-Emancipation Fiction
  • Mad Fridays Paper Series (Мюнхен ). Presentation: Деспотизм аффектов: Непрозрачное сознание и современная физиология у позднего Тургенева («Степной король Лир»)
  • Международный Некрасовский конгресс (Ярославль ). Presentation: Генезис и социология некрасовского и других «Извозчиков"
  • Second International Conference of European Association for Digital Humanities (Красноярск ). Presentation: На пути к корпусу русского романа
  • Нигилизм» как литературный проект (Санкт-Петербург ). Presentation: Антинигилистический роман avant la lettre: «Герои нашего времени» С.О. Бурачка (1845) и судьба идеологического романа в России
  • 2020
    Теории и практики литературного мастерства (Москва, НИУ ВШЭ ). Presentation: Крестьянские голоса: стилизация речи простонародья в русской прозе 1850-х
  • ИНСТИТУТЫ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ И ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ВЛАСТЬ В РОССИИ XIX ВЕКА (Санкт-Петербург , ИРЛИ РАН). Presentation: Институциональный ресурс и индустрия хрестоматий в имперской России (на примере "Русской хрестоматии" А.Д. Галахова).
  • Sawchen Lecture Series (Vancouver , Canada, University of British Columbia ). Presentation: Towards the Corpus of the Russian Novel, 1800-1917
  • 2019
    ASEEES 2019 (Сан Франциско ). Presentation: How the Russian Novel Came to School: Curriculum and Literary Canon in Late Imperial Russia
  • Canon? Practice? Commodity? The Past, Present and Future of the Literary Anthology’ (Лондон). Presentation: The Russian Literary Canon As Seen from School: А Distant Reading of 130 School Anthologies and Reading Books, 1805-1917
  • 2018
    Международные Лотмановские чтения (Москва). Presentation: Статьи Н.Н. Страхова о Толстом и проблема литературной иерархии в русской критике 1860-70-х годов
  • Лев Толстой и пресса его времени (Варшава ). Presentation: Статьи Н.Н. Страхова о Толстом и проблема литературной иерархии в русской критике 1860-70-х годов
  • 2015
    Некрасов в контексте русской культуры (Ярославль). Presentation: Пьяницы, уродцы, пророки: крестьяне в романе Некрасова "Тонкий человек" и литературная традиция
  • Социальные практики литературы: роль институтов в истории русской литературы (Москва). Presentation: Морское министерство и русские писатели: к истории государственных литературных проектов середины XIX века
  • 2014
    XXXVII Некрасовская конференция (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Некрасов и Кольцов: об одном источнике "Несжатой полосы"
  • Лотмановский семинар (Тарту). Presentation: Мода на "русскость": великий князь Константин Николаевич и писатели в 1855 году
  • VI Лотмановские дни в Таллинском университете (Таллин). Presentation: Биография ученого, наука и национализм в России 1850-х годов (Почему Тимофея Грановского считали «плохим ученым»?)
  • Лев Толстой и мировая литература (Ясная Поляна). Presentation: Власть денег: сюжет "Поликушки" Толстого в контексте прозы о простонародье 1850-х годов
  • Гончаров после "Обломова" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Адуев-старший, Обломов, Хлестаков: стратегии репрезентации денежных вопросов в письмах позднего Гончарова
  • 2013
    Лотмановский семинар (Тарту). Presentation: Литературная экономика Ивана Гончарова
  • Russian Myth in Transition / Русский миф в его развитии (Тарту). Presentation: "Что ты спишь, мужичок?" Стихотворение А. Кольцова и споры о русскости в XIX веке
  • Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies 45th Annual Convention (Boston). Presentation: Russian Writers as Orientalists in the Service of Empire: Reconsidering the "Literary Expedition" of Naval Ministry,1855-1861

Editorial board membership

  • Member of editorial board of 'Russian Literature' (Amsterdam)

  • 2016: Member of the Editorial Board, Slavic Literatures (ранее - Russian Literature).

Timetable for today

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‘Students Should Read Dostoevsky or Tolstoy Because They Help Readers See beyond the Noise of Our Present’

On September 23, the HSE School of Philological Studies launched the third season of its international academic workshop on ‘The 19th-Century Russian Novel: Corpus, Poetics, Social Imaginary’. We talked to Alexey Vdovin, Associate Professor at the School of Philological Studies, about the workshop’s plans and international cooperation, as well as to Ani Kokobobo, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas, who opened this year’s workshop with her report ‘Strange Bedfellows – Leo Tolstoy and Andrea Dworkin’.

‘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.

Young HSE Researchers Receive Awards from Moscow Government

The Moscow Government has presented various awards to several young HSE researchers - Aigul Mavletova, Evgeny Feigin and Alexey Vdovin.

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.

Alexey Vdovin's Talk at Yale University

Professor Vdovin to Give a Talk at Yale Conference "The Russian Century"

Staff Members of the School of Philology Discuss ‘Distant Reading’ by Franco Moretti

On May 17 th, 2016, a presentation and discussion of the Russian translation of the book ‘Distant Reading’ by Franco Moretti was held at RANEPA media loft.

Alexey Vdovin's Talk at Russian and East European Institute (Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington, USA)

Professor of the School of Philology spoke about the Russification of Patriotism during the Crimean War, 1853-56

Report by Alexey Vdovin at Humboldt University of Berlin

On November 11th,  Alexey Vdovin, Associate Professor at the School of Philology presented a report ‘Between Hegel and George Sand: How Russian Critics and Writers Invented Peasants in the 19th Century Fiction’ at the Institute for Slavic Studies.