Yana Agafonova
- Lecturer, Visiting Lecturer:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of Philology
- Yana Agafonova has been at HSE University since 2019.
Education and Degrees
- 2022
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD)
HSE University - 2015
Master's in Philology
Saint Petersburg State University
* Candidate of Sciences
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.
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.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2011—2013 Translator in the field of professional communications (Saint Petersburg State University)
2017 Second Moscow-Tartu Late Summer School on Digital Humanities (HSE University in Voronovo)
2019 Research Fellow in Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki)
Courses (2022/2023)
- Beyond the World of Words: Non-Verbal Components of Culture (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Literary Reflections of Great Historical Events (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of Literary Text Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2021/2022)
- Beyond the World of Words: Non-Verbal Components of Culture (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Forms of Knowledge about the Human: from the Ancients to the Moderns (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Study of Literature (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Literary Reflections of Great Historical Events (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of Literary Text Analysis (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Culture in the 17th-20th centuries (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Beyond the World of Words: Non-Verbal Components of Culture (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Forms of Knowledge about the Human: from the Ancients to the Moderns (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Literary Reflections of Great Historical Events (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Modern Literature (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Culture in the 17th-20th centuries (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 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
- Forms of Knowledge about the Human: from the Ancients to the Moderns (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Literary Reflections of Great Historical Events (Minor; School of Arts and Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
Publications10
- Article Agafonova Y. The Common Reader in Public Readings With Magic Lantern Slides in Late Imperial Russia // Russian Literature. 2022. Vol. 129. P. 73-93. doi
- Article Агафонова Я. Я. Литература для народа и центральная аудитория для народных чтений как государственный просветительский проект во второй половине XIX века // Новое литературное обозрение. 2022. № 175. С. 78-92.
- Article Вейгандт С. Пластические тела в научных работах Трофима Лысенко, Арона Залкинда и в искусстве Константина Станиславского в эпоху советского бихевиоризма / Пер. с англ.: Я. Я. Агафонова // Новое литературное обозрение. 2021. С. 130-150.
- Chapter Agafonova Y., Tikhonov A., Yamshchikov I. P. Paranoid Transformer: Reading Narrative of Madness as Computational Approach to Creativity, in: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity. Coimbra : Association for Computational Creativity, 2020. Ch. 3.5. P. 146-152.
- Article Agafonova Y., Tikhonov A., Ivan P. Yamshchikov. Paranoid transformer: Reading narrative of madness as computational approach to creativity // Future Internet. 2020. Vol. 12. No. 11. Article 182. doi
- Article Agafonova Y. The Magic Lantern in Late Imperial Russia // The Magic Lantern (UK). 2020. No. 23. P. 17-19.
- Article Агафонова Я. Я. Классика для народа в адаптациях Постоянной комиссии по устройству народных чтений // Новое литературное обозрение. 2019. № 2 (156). С. 77-93.
- Chapter Агафонова Я. Я. Борьба за классику: книга для народа и лубочные книжные издания // В кн.: Русская филология. 28: Сборник научных работ молодых филологов. Тарту : Издательство Тартуского университета, 2017. С. 52-61.
- Article Агафонова Я. Я. Проблема рецепции "таинственных штудий" И.С. Тургенева // Летняя школа по русской литературе. 2016. Т. 12. № 1. С. 23-33.
- Book Аверин Б. В., Козакевич А. В. Великая Война в поэзии и прозе 1914–1917 гг. / Сост.: Б. В. Аверин, К. М. Азадовский, М. Н. Виролайнен, А. В. Козакевич, Я. Я. Агафонова, П. В. Бояркина, Г. Н. Беляк, К. Бутузова, А. Ю. Арьев. Издательство РХГА, 2015.
Conferences
- 2020Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity (Coimbra). Presentation: Paranoid Transformer: Reading Narrative of Madness as Computational Approach to Creativity
- 2019Technology culture and society in the eurasian space (Helsinki). Presentation: Public Readings with Magic Lantern in Late Imperial Russia
- 2018Международная конференция молодых филологов (Tartu). Presentation: К проблеме просветительской стратегии Комиссии по устройству народных чтений
- 2017II Московско-Тартуская школа центра цифровых гуманитарных исследований (Москва). Presentation: Цифровая база популярной литературы 19 века: проблемы каталогизации на примере книг для народного чтения
- 2016The Enlightenment from a Non-Western Perspective (Sofia). Presentation: The Concept of Enlightenment in Special Books for Peasants in Prerevolutionary Russian Society: Textual and Visual Aspects
Grants
Mervyn Heard Award 2019 from The Magic Lantern Society (UK) for a research project about the magic lantern in late imperial Russia.
Young Russian Scholars Helsinki Fellowship (YRUSH) 2019