Maria A. Volkonskaya
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies
- Programme Academic Supervisor: Philology
- Maria A. Volkonskaya has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education and Degrees
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Thesis Title: The language of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: on the interrelationship between traditional poetic words and loanwords
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Philology
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Philology
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 — 2022–2023, 2017–2018
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2014–2015)
Courses (2024/2025)
- History of English: From "Beowulf" to Shakespeare (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
- History of Medieval Literature: Western and Eastern Europe (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Medievalism in English Literature (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Medievistics and Medievalism" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Medievistics and Medievalism" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- History of English: From "Beowulf" to Shakespeare (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
- History of Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History of Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Medievalism in English Literature (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Eng
- Medievalism in English Literature (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study Philology; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Modern English Novel (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Medievistics and Medievalism" (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Medievistics and Medievalism" (Optional course (faculty); 1-3 module)Rus
- The Basics of Critical Reading and Academic Writing (Optional course (faculty); 3 module)Eng
Courses (2022/2023)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Critical Thinking and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- History of Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Literature of Great Britain (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Medievalism in English Literature (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study Philology; 1 year, 2 module)Eng
- Modern English Literature (20-21 centuries) (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics, field of study Linguistics; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Modern English Literature (20-21 centuries) (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Literature of Great Britain (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Modern English Literature (20-21 centuries) (Master’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Literature of Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Literature of Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Literature of Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Academic English Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- American and European Literary History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- American and European Literary History (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Literature of Great Britain (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Literature of Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Literature of Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Literature of Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2022
the 18th International Saga Conference: Sagas and the Circum-Baltic Arena, Helsinki and Tallinn (Хельсинки). Presentation: On ranks and rankings (roundtable “Better late than never: Olga Smirnitskaya’s 'The Verse and the Language of Old Germanic Poetry' appears in English” )
12th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 12). Presentation: Tracing the roots of Lawman’s poetic diction: synonyms for "man, warrior" in the "Brut" and Old English non-poetic sources
- 2021
56th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo). Presentation: Poetic Diction in Lawman’s "Brut": Continuity or Connectivity?
- 2020
Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries - MEMSA Podcast Series (Дарем). Presentation: Scottish “The Vertewis of the Mess” and its English Counterparts
- 2019
11th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 11) (Флоренция). Presentation: Authorial self-presentation in the "Ormulum"
Между строк... или грамматика нереального-3 (Москва). Presentation: Пастырь и паства: к вопросу о прагматике и риторике английских гомилий конца X–XII веков
- 2018
International Medieval Congress (IMC) (Лидс). Presentation: John Lydgate on the virtues of the mass: translation, memory, and change
- 2017
10th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 10) (Ставангер). Presentation: Number symbolism in the "Ormulum"
- 2016
Ломоносовские чтения (Москва). Presentation: Древнеанглийские поэтические синонимы в свете корпусных данных
Гаспаровские чтения - 2016 (Москва). Presentation: “Rinkas feollen”: cинонимические обозначения мужчины, воина в английских поэтических памятниках X–XIII века
International Medieval Congress (IMC) (Лидс). Presentation: Old English and Middle English alliterative ranks: the devil in the details
Aspects sociaux des littératures médiévales. Texte et situation communicative au Moyen Âge (Москва). Presentation: “Whi icc till Ennglissh hafe wennd / Goddspelless hallᵹhe lare”: the author and the audience of the “Ormulum”
- 2015
9th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 9) (Вроцлав). Presentation: Translating "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight": interpreting the diction, interpreting the metre
50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo). Presentation: Translator and language change: on J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
- 2014
Ломоносовские чтения (Москва). Presentation: "Ормулум" в контексте средневековых учений о языке
49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo). Presentation: Insular spelling reforms in the Middle Ages: the "Ormulum" and the "First Grammatical Treatise"
Научный семинар направления "Филология" (Москва). Presentation: Англо-французский билингвизм и его отражение в английской поэзии конца XIV века
- 2013
8th International Conference on Middle English (ICOME 8) (Мурсия). Presentation: On the origins and functions of synonyms in Middle English alliterative poetry