Alexey Vdovin
- Professor, Senior Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies
- Alexey Vdovin has been at HSE University since 2012.
Education and Degrees
University of Tartu
Thesis Title: The Concept of "Head of Literature" in the Russian Literary Criticism of the 1830-60s
Vyatka State University of Humanities
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
Best Teacher — 2017–2024, 2013–2015
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2024, 2022
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2016–2017)
Category "New Lecturers" (2013–2014)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Monster Studies: Monsters in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century World Literature and Cinema (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
- Monster Studies: Monsters in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century World Literature and Cinema (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
- Monster Studies: Monsters in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century World Literature and Cinema (Mago-Lego; 4 module)Rus
- Postcolonial Theory and Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Problems of the history of Russian Literature of the XIX-XX Centuries (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Problems of the history of Russian Literature of the XIX-XX Centuries (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Problems of the history of Russian Literature of the XIX-XX Centuries (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Literary Canon of the 19th–20th Centuries" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Literary Canon of the 19th–20th Centuries" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-3 module)Rus
- Russian Literature of the First Half of the 19Th Century (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- A Brief History of World Literature (Optional course (faculty); 2, 3 module)Rus
- Current Academic Research (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Current Academic Research (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study Philology; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Postcolonial Theory and Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Literary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Optional course (faculty); 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Literary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- A Brief History of World Literature (Optional course (faculty); 2, 3 module)Rus
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Postcolonial Theory and Literature (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
- Sociology of Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- History of Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Poetics of Fiction (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Literary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Literary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Literary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociology of Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- History of Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- History of the Russian Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Litarary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Litarary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Russian Litarary Canon, 19-20 cent." (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Sociology of Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
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
‘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.