Vitaly G. Rodionov

Vitaly G. Rodionov

DSc in Philology

Professor,

Department of Chuvash Philology and Culture, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University

Education:

Graduated from the Department of History and Philology, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University (1975)

Doct. thesis: 

The Genesis and Evolution of the Chuvash Verse (IWL RAS, 1992)

Research Interests: poetry, literature and mythology of the Urals and Volga region peoples, folklore studies, literary theory, ethnography and anthropology, Turkic and Finno-Ugrian studies

Professional Service

Chairman of the Dissertation Council, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University

Member of the Dissertation Council, IWL RAS

Member of the Academic Senate, Chuvash State Institute for the Humanities

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Studia Letterarum ( since 15.10.2018)

 Awards 

Honored Scholar of the Chuvash Republic (1997)

Honored Scholar of the Russian Federation (2010)

Distinguished Professor of the I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University (2012)

Winner of the State Prize of the Chuvash Republic in the field of the humanities for 2018 (2019)

Commemorative medal “100th Anniversary of the Formation of the Chuvash Autonomous Region” (2020)

 

Academic publications — over 200 publications, including 6 monographs.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Chuvash Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice. Cheboksary, New Time Press, 2017. In Russ.
  • Chuvash Ethnos: Study in Ethnology and Mythopoetics. Cheboksary, Chuvash State Institute for the Humanities Press, 2017. In Russ.
  • Snowdropis the Flower of the Earth and the Sky. Cheboksary, Chuvash Book Press, 2014. In Russ.
  • Word. Form. Cheboksary, Chuvash University Press, 2007. In Chuvash
  • Culture. Word. Cheboksary, Chuvash University Press, 2006. In Russ.
  • Chuvash Verse: Problems of Formation and Development. Cheboksary, Chuvash Book Press, 1992. In Russ.

Selected essays

  • “Formation of Drama Genres in the Context of Genre-mode Consciousness Development Among the First Chuvash Writers.” Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, vol. 16, no. 6., 2023, pp. 1689–1694. (Co-authored with Kirillova I.Y.) (In Russ.)
  • “Images of the First Primal Forefathers of the Hunno-bulgars and Their Ethnogenetic Traditions.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 3, 2023, pp. 122–131. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2023-3-122-131
  • “‘Note’ (‘Risala’) by Ibn Fadlan and Features of the Early Stage of the Volga Bulgars Formation (X Century).” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 2, 2022, pp. 98–111. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.47026/1810- 1909-2022-2-98-111.
  • “About One Pra-turkic Magic Formula, Which Became the Reason for the Formation of the Genre ‛Song’ in Ritual Folklore.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 2, 2021, pp. 171–180. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2021-2-171-180. In Russ.
  • “The Works of Spiridon Mikhailov (Yandush) in the Aspect of Some Historical Ethnology Problems.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 4, 2021, pp. 135–148. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2021-4-135-148. In Russ.
  • “Creativity of Spiridon Mikhailov (Yandush) and the Worldview of the Chuvash Ethnos in the Middle of the XIX Century.” Istoricheskii poisk, vol. 2, no. 4, 2021, pp. 102–112. DOI: 10.47026/2712-9454-2021-2-4-102-112. In Russ.
  • “Nikolai Ashmarin as a Mythologer-historian of the First Quarter of the 20th Century.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 2, 2020, pp. 117–128. In Russ.
  • “Reconstruction of the Chuvash Calendar and the Ritual Complex Kalam.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 4, 2020, pp. 108–125. In Russ.
  • “Semantic and Chronological Stratification of the Names of the Home Patron Spiritsin the Chuvash Mythology.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 2, 2018, pp. 268–277. In Russ.
  • “Semantic Shifts of Lexems Connected with the Developmental Stagesof Prototurkic People’s Artistic Consciousness.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 2, 2017, pp. 305–310. In Russ.
  • “Chronological Stratification of the Ancestors’and Saints’Namesin the Chuvash Folk Religion.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 4, 2017, pp. 311–322. In Russ.
  • “Etymology and Semantic Transformation of the Serpent-patron’s Name in the Chuvash Mythology.” Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 4, 2016, pp. 238–244. In Russ.
  • “Inter-literary Dialogue of the Tatar and Chuvash peoples (Second Half of the Nineteenth – Beginning of the Twentieth Century).” Tatarika, no. 4, 2015, pp. 67–71. In Russ.
  • “Chuvash Literature and Criticism of the 1980s: The Struggle of Schools.” Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, vol. 4, no. 12 (54), 2015, pp. 177–180. In Russ.

 

Teaching experience

Head of the Department of Chuvash and Comparative Literary Studies, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University (1997–2014).

Professor at the Department of Chuvash Philology and Culture, I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University (2014 – present).

Lecture courses: History of Chuvash literature (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries, 1900–1940).

Graduate supervision. I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University –Modern information technology in philology (for graduate students).

PhD supervision at the I.N. Ulianov Chuvash State University.

Leading Researcher in Philology, Chuvash State Institute for the Humanities (2010 – present).