Ekaterina E. Dmitrieva

DSc in Philology, 

Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Science,

Head of the Department of Russian classical Literature, IWL RAS

Education:

Graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, Pskov

PhD thesis:

The Epistolary Genre in A.S. Pushin's Work (1986)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:

Gogol in the Western European Сontext: between Languages ​​and Сultures (2011).

Research interests: history of Russian literature of the 19th century, textual criticism, theory of comparative method, literature and culture of European baroque and romanticism.

Professional service

Professor of the Department of Comparative History of Literature at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH, Moscow),

Visiting professor at the University of Paris 8 (Saint-Denis) (1994-1996),

Visiting professor at the University of Picardy named after Jules Verne (2014),

Visiting professor at Ecole Normale Superier (2015).

Associate member (until 2019) of the Excellence TransferS Laboratory: Cultural Transfer, Translation, Interaction, led by Michel Espagne,

Initiator of colloquia dedicated to the problems of cultural transfer between Russia, Germany and France (co)organized with Michel Espagne).

The newly elected secretary of the International Master's Collegium of the University of Freiburg named after Albert Ludwig and the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH, Moscow) (until 2020).

Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Literary Fact

Member of the Editorial Board, Studia Litterarum

 

Awards

Winner of the Gogol award in Italy (2015)

 

Academic publications — more then 270 publications, including 5 monographs.

Selected scientific publications

Monographs

  • Translation as a Problem of Cultural Transfer (University Master class; Vol. 45). Saint-Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg University of the Humanities and Social Sciences Publ., 2024. 46 p. In Russ.
  • Literary Castles of Europe and the Russian “County House Genre” across the Centuries (1880s-1930s). Ex. ed. G.A. Veligorsky. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020.  768 p.  (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0637-6 
  • Gogol in the Western European context: between languages ​​and cultures. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2011. 391 p. (In Russ.) 
  • The Life of the Estate Myth: Paradise Lost and Found. Moscow, OGI Publ, 2003. 526 p. (Co-authored with O.N. Kuptsova). (In Russ.)
  • Maria Pavlovna. Die frühen Tagebücher der Erbherzogin von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . Koeln Weimar Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2000. 399 p. (Co-authoredwith Viola Klein). (In German)

Scopus / Web of Science publications

  • “‘Gogol's Hard Truth’: Completing the Path.”Voprosy literatury, no. 1, 2023, pp. 101–120. (In Russ.)
  • “French Salons: From Social Ritual to Literary Practice.” Shagi / Steps, vol. 8, no. 2, 2022, pp. 102–123. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2022-8-2-102-123 
  • “Those Who Stand Side by Side in the Liturgy. The Book of Al. Altaev ‘Gdovshchina’.” Novyi mir, no. 2, 2021, pp. 149–160. (In Russ.) 
  • “The Breton Castle of Lamennais, Two Novels and Two Novelists Who Did Not Get Along With Each Other (Stendhal and the Duchess de Duras).” Shagi / Steps, vol. 6, no. 3, 2020, pp. 228–243. (In Russ.)
  • “About the Origins of the Idea of Cosmopolitanism: Russian and European View.” Voprosy literatury, no. 2, 2020, pp. 44–69. (In Russ.)
  • “From the Correspondence of Florian Gilles with V.A. Zhukovsky.” Imagologiia i komparativistika, no. 13, 2020, pp. 24–48. (In Russ.)
  • “Translation and Untranslatability: Difficulties of Metaphysics and Eroticism.” Shagi / Steps, vol. 5, no. 3, 2019, pp. 51–83. (In Russ.)
  • “Russian Estate: Semantics, Topos and Hronos.ˮ Imagologiia i komparativistika, no. 11, 2019, pp. 140–174. (In Russ.)
  • “Playing Chekhov on the French stage: Nostalgia for the Estate or Nostalgia for the Game? (‘Dear Antoine ...’ by Jean Anouy).ˮ Russkaia literatura, no. 1, 2019, pp. 198–207. (In Russ.)
  • “Carefree Swimming and Frantic Dance: Parisian Gingettes Belle Epoque.ˮ Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, no. 149, 2018, pp. 117–131. (In Russ.)
  • “Garden of Diverging Paths: S.G. Bocharov and Gogol.ˮ Voprosy literatury, no. 3, 2018, pp. 22–27. (In Russ.)
  • “N.V. Gogol’s Dialogue with His Contemporaries, or How to Combine the Ideal of Humanism and Asceticism.” Russkaia literatura, 2024, no. 4, pp. 242–244. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2024-4-242-244
  • “The Cultural Transfer Theory as Mastering the Other (As an Introduction to the Topic).” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2024, no. 1, pp. 127–137. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.53953/08696365_2024_185_1_127
  • “Rene Étiemble. The Arguments of Literary Comparative Studies, or Comparison is not an Argument.” Voprosy literatury, 2024, no. 6, pp. 118–126. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2024-6-163-171 
  • “Words of Ice and Thoughts of Flame. The Anniversary of Mariia Naumovna Virolainen.” Russkaia literatura, 2024, no. 2, pp. 5–8. (Сo-authored with V.E. Bagno). In Russ. https://doi.org/10.31860/0131-6095-2024-4-242-244
  • “Two Letters from the Archive of A.I. Turgenev, and Two Episodes Concerning Gogol’s ‘Dead Souls’.” Shagi / Steps, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 230–269. (Сo-authored with A.V. Dubrovskii). In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-230-269
  • “N.V. Gogol, Louis Viardot, Ivan Turgenev and the Story Viy: Lost in Translation.” Shagi / Steps, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 96–117. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22394/2412-9410-2024-10-2-96-117
  • “Taras Bulba: the Experience of Reverse Translation.” Novyi mir, 2024, no. 1, pp. 184–196. In Russ.

Selected essayes

  • “Pushkin, Dostoevsky and Wagner Through the Eyes of Shakespeare: on the Battlefield of Comprehension and Translation.” Shakespeare and the Culture of the Renaissance. Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities Publ., 2024, pp. 205–212. In Russ.
  • “The Entry of English Literature into the Russian Golden Age.” Socio-cultural Contexts of Russian Literature of the XI–XX Centuries. Saint Petersburg, OOO Izdatel'stvo “Rostok” Publ., 2024, pp. 305–343. In Russ.
  • “Did Gogol love Shakespeare and how did he read it?” Shakespeare and the Culture of the Renaissance. Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities Publ., 2024, pp. 369–386. In Russ.
  • “National Variants. Germany.” European Classicism. Encyclopedic Guide, ex. ed. M.L. Andreev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 592–646. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0773-1
  • “An Unknown Letter from Alphonse de Lamartine.” “... And the line doesn't end”: Collection in Honor of Maria Naumovna Virolainen. Saint Petersburg, OOO Izdatel'stvo “Rostok” Publ., 2024, pp. 306–315. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.31860/978-5-94668-408-8
  • “Gogol's Taras Bulba: Pragmatics vs Hermeneutics.” Proceedings of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Vol. 13. Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences Publ., 2024, pp. 55–75. In Russ.
  • “Salons and Salon Culture of the Golden Age.” Socio-cultural Contexts of Russian Literature of the XI–XX Centuries. Saint Petersburg, OOO Izdatel'stvo “Rostok” Publ., 2024, pp. 305–343. (Сo-authored with Murav'eva O.S.) In Russ.
  • “The Fate of Castles in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Problems of Museumification and the Need for Domestication.” Estate and Dacha in the Literature of the Soviet Era: Losses and Gains: A Collective Monograph, comp. by O.A. Bogdanova, ex. ed. V.G. Andreeva, O.A. Bogdanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 326–346. (Series: “Russian Estate in a Global Context”, issue 8). In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0758-8-326-346
  • “Yuri Mann: the Golden Age of Russian Philology.” The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Yuri Mann: In Memoriam, ex. ed. E.E. Dmitrieva. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 15–36. In Russ. https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0754-0-15-36