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Laboratory of Comparative Literary Studies and Cultural Diplomacy

General information

The laboratory was established in 2021 in order to solve research, scientific-organisational, scientific-educational, as well as scientific-educational and educational tasks in the field of literary studies and related humanities disciplines.

Our objectives

Research objectives:

– Development and implementation of fundamental and applied research projects in the field of literary studies and related humanities under RNF, RFBR and other grants, state assignment, on an initiative basis.

– Presentation of research results in the form of scientific reports at all-Russian and international conferences, scientific articles in journals, including those indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, collective and author monographs, candidate and doctoral theses.

Research and organisational objectives:

– Organisation of scientific events: round tables, seminars, conferences.

– Expertise and advisory activities.

Research and educational objectives:

– Participation in the modernisation of working programmes of disciplines implemented at the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature; development of university-wide elective courses on topical problems of literary studies.

– Participation in the organisation of internships for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students.

– Modernisation of the postgraduate educational programme on the profile ‘Literatures of the Peoples of the World’.

Popularisation and education:

– Organisation of public lectures at the university and at external venues

– Participation in intellectual competitions.

– Organisation of discussion events.

Research areas

The research topics are related to the laboratory’s activities aimed at initiating and implementing research, scientific, educational and scientific outreach projects on the following interdisciplinary topics:

– International literary relations and interactions;

– the image of Russia in foreign literature;

– strategies of popularisation of humanitarian scientific knowledge;

– fiction and related media content in international cultural and humanitarian activities;

– theory and practice of cultural diplomacy in the conditions of digital transformation and socio-political turbulence.

Dmitry A. Belyakov

head of laboratory

Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor

Research interests:
cultural transfer in the system of literary relations, comparative literature, the image of Russia in foreign literature, the work of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse
Elena I. Zeifert

leading researcher

doctor of philology

Research interests:

genre; verse; literary creativity; comparativism; Russian literature of the first third of the 19th century; modern Russian literature; German literature; literature of Russian Germans; ethnic picture of the world in literature; ancient literature; translation studies (German, Latin); physiology of language; artistic bilingualism; pre-word; post-word; volumetricity of a work; energy in a work of fiction; force as a theoretical and literary category; metaphor; rock poetry; hierarchy of literary process; methodology of teaching literature.
Sergey Y. Biryukov

leading researcher

доктор филологических наук

Научные интересы:
русский и зарубежный авангард, русская поэзия 17-21вв., проблемы перевода, музыкально-поэтические и театральные эксперименты, художественное чтение, литература и мультимедиа.
Yulia V. Chernova

senior researcher

PhD in philology

Research interests:

History of Western European theatre; synthesis of arts (dialogue between theatre and literature, music and literature); theatricality and theatricalisation of the artistic text; 20th century English literature.
Anna N. Moreva

junior researcher

Research interests:
texts of turbulent eras, media narrative, media systems of BRICS and ASEAN countries.
Nikolić Milica

junior researcher, PhD student

Research interests:
foreign and Russian literature; the genre of the novel-anti-utopia in English-language literature of the 20th century; the work of Milorad Pavich.
Anastasia Y. Vedeneeva

junior researcher

Research interests:
Shakespearean question, linguistic and forensic analysis of the text, image of Russia in foreign literature.
Anastasia Tsareva

volunteer, curator of the LitClub

Research interests:
history of French literature, French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, evolution of the French novel at the turn of the century, conflict of images of individual and collective at the turn of the century, evolution of the category of memory in Western European literature of the 20th century.