Evgeny Kazartsev (Evgenii Kazartcev)
- Head of the School, Professor, Chief Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / School of Philological Studies
- Professor: HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / School of Arts and Humanities / Department of Philology
- Member of the HSE Academic Council
- Evgeny Kazartsev (Evgenii Kazartcev) has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
St Petersburg State University
St Petersburg State University
St Petersburg State University
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.
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
University Bremen, Department of Language and Literature, PhD-study (1996 -- 1999)
Universiteit Leiden, Department of Dutch Language and Literature, post-doc education (2004 -- 2005)
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, post-doc (2006 -- 2007)
Research professor at Dartmouth College (USA), 2012--2013
Vinogradov Institut for Russian Language, Russian Academy of Science, second PhD, Habilitation (2012 -- 2015)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Introduction to the Study of Verse (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Poetry Speech and Prose Speech: Computer Methods for the Comparative Study of Verse against the Background of Prose" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Poetry Speech and Prose Speech: Computer Methods for the Comparative Study of Verse against the Background of Prose" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 1-3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- History and Theory of European Verse (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
- History of European Verse. Modern Theories and Methods of Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study Philology; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Introduction to the Study of Verse (Optional course (faculty); 1 module)Rus
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Poetry Speech and Prose Speech: Computer Methods for the Comparative Study of Verse against the Background of Prose" (Optional course (faculty); 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Poetry Speech and Prose Speech: Computer Methods for the Comparative Study of Verse against the Background of Prose" (Optional course (faculty); 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Verse and Prose in the Context of Digital Humanities" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Versification (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Humanities; 3 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- History of European Verse. Modern Theories and Methods of Analysis (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Philology, field of study Philology; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- History of European Verse. Modern Theories and Methods of Analysis (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Introduction to Philology (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Verse and Prose in the Context of Digital Humanities" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Versification: theory and practice (Optional course (faculty); 3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Literature and Digital Humanities (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Metrical and Not-metrical Texts: Methods of Comparative Study" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Metrical and Not-metrical Texts: Methods of Comparative Study" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Verse and Prose in the Context of Digital Humanities" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- European Versification: History and Theory (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Key Texts of the German-Language Literature (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Prosodic Theory (Master’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Metrical and Not-metrical Texts: Methods of Comparative Study" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Metrical and Not-metrical Texts: Methods of Comparative Study" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Metrical and Not-metrical Texts: Methods of Comparative Study" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Verse and Prose in the Context of Digital Humanities" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Theory and History of Verse (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Conferences
Participation: In 31 international conferences since 1994:
- Sept. 1994, Kiev – International Conference «Загальна та експериментальна фонетика» at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Paper presentation: The accent of the rhythmic words in Russian poetry
- Apr. 1996, Tartu – International Conference for Russian Philology at University of Tartu. Paper presentation: The Influence of Verse Rhythm on the Poet’s Prose
- June 1996, Suzdal - International Congress “Languages of Sciences - Languages of Art”. Paper presentation: The Languages Sources of Rhythm of Russian Syllabo-Tonic Verse (co-author M. Krasnoperova)
- Jan. 1997, Berlin – Internationale Alexander Puschkin Tagung von der Deutschen Pushkin-Gesellschaft (FU Berlin, Leitung K.-D. Seemann). Paper presentation: Die rhythmische Struktur der Prosawerken von Alexander Puschkin
- June 1998, Peterhof – International Congress «Slavic Verse: Linguistic and Applied Poetics”. Paper presentation: New Materials for Investigating the Genesis of Russian Syllabo-tonicism
- May 1999, Vechta – International Metric Conference: Meter, Rhythm and Performance. Paper presentation: Die Anwendung linguistischer Statistik bei der Analyse des deutschen Verses
- Nov 1999, St. Petersburg – International Congress. Sciences and Humanities. Paper presentation: Details of the Rhythmic Structure of Russian Iambus Tetrameter in Comparison with German Verse
- Nov. 2000, Moscow – International Congress “People, Language, Art” at Vladimir Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical University. Paper presentation: The Spiritual Odes of Johann-Christian Günther and Mikhail Lomonosov
- June 2001, Smolensk – International Academic Conference “Slavic Verse: Linguistics and Culture” at University of Smolensk (org. Vadim Baievskii). Paper presentation:“Ode... on the Taking of Khotin” against the Background of Language Rhythmic Models for German and Russian (co-author M. Krasnoperova)
- Sept. 2001, St. Petersburg – Victor Žirmunskii International Congress at Russian Academy of Science (org. by Nikolai Kazanskii). Paper of presentation: Rhythmic Interpretation of Poetic Texts (co-author M. Krasnoperova)
- June 2004, Moscow – International Conference “Slavianskiistikh: Lingvistika i struktura sthikha” Paper presentation: “Ritmicheskije obrazcy russkogo i nemeckogo iamba v stanovlenii i rannem razvitii”
- May 2005, Moscow – International Conference “Functional Styles of Sounded Speech” at Moscow State University. Paper presentation: The rhythm of the Dutch language and the Dutch verse of the 16th–17th centuries
- Oct. 2007, Tambov – International Conference “Filologija i kultura”. Paper presentation: Vzaimodejstvije nacionalnogo i nemeckogo stikha i jazyka v processe stanovlenija russkoj sillabo-toniki. The interaction between Russian and German verse and language during the development of Russian syllabo-tonicism (co-author M. Krasnoperova)
- Apr. 2008, Moscow – International A.-von-Humboldt Conference «Nano, Cogni, Chrono». Paper presentation: The probability models in comparative study of verse in different languages
- July 2008, Vechta – International Metric Conference Current Trends in Metrical Analysis.Paper presentation: Zur rhythmischen Entwicklung früher niederländischen und deutschen Jamben
- Nov. 2008, Tallinn-Tartu – International Congress “Frontiers in Comparative Metrics” at Tallinn and Tartu Universities. Paper presentation: Reconstructive simulation of versification in comparative studies of texts in different languages
- May 2009, Lublin – International Conference “Humanism in the European Science and Culture”. Paper presentation: Entwicklungsuniversalien der deutschen Syllabotonik
- March 2010, Moscow – Russkii yazyk: istoričeskie sud’by i sovremennost’. IV Meždunarodnyi congress issledovatelei russkogo iazyka. Paper presentation: Ritmika 6-stopnogo jamba M. V. Lomonosova. Rhythmic of the iambic hexameter of M. V. Lomonosov (co-author M. Krasnoperova)
- July 2010, Warshaw – Congress of IVG (Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik). Paper presentation: Overaccentuering en de ontwikkeling van de alternerende versificatie
- Nov. 2010, St. Petersburg – Internationale Conference: “Otechestvennoe stikhovedenie: 100-letnie itogi i perspektivy”. Paper presentation: Zapadnoevropeiskie istochniki reformy russkogo stikha 18 veka
- Sept. 2011, Gdańsk – International Alexander von Humboldt Colloquium: How Science Spies on and Technology Imitates Nature at University of Gdańsk. Poster presentation: “Russian“ Formal-Statistical Method in the Study of Inter-Language Communication by the Evolution of the European Verse
- March 2011, Hanover, NH – International Metric Conference: 100 years of Kirill Taranosky (org. B. Scherr at Dartmouth College, USA). Paper presentation: A comparative study of early Dutch, German, and Russian Iambic Poetry
- June 2011, Moscow -- International Conference “Slavianskii stikh X: stikhovedenie i lingvistika”. Paper presentation: Osobennosti kontinental’noi sillabo-toniki
- May 2012, Almaty – Problems of Poetic and Verse Study: VI International S. Shashkin’s Conference. Paper Presentation Slučajnyje jamby v prose B. L. Pasternaka. Occasional Iambs in Boris Pasternak’s prose
- Jan. 2013, Boston – The AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages) International Conference 2013 in Boston. Paper presentation: Mikrosituacija stikha v proze poeta. The verse microsituation in the poet's prose
- July 2013, Paris – Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA 2013 Paris Sorbonne). Paper presentation: The early Russian and North European Syllabo-tonicism
- Apr. 2014, Tallinn – International Congress “Frontiers in Comparative Metrics”, Tallinn University. Paper presentation: The genesis of syllabo-tonic verse in Northern Europe
- March 2015, Chicago – International colloquium “Prosody Today: Comparative Perspectives of the Study of Verse”, University of Chicago. Paper presentation: The rise of iambic verse in a comparative perspective
- May 2015, Алматы – VII Международная научно-теоретическая конференция, посвященная 70-летию победы в Великой Отечественной войне и 100-летию со дня рождения М. Габдуллина, КазНПУ. Доклад: О некоторых аспектах взаимодействия стиха и прозы
- May 2015, Torun’ – Humboldt Kolleg – Ethics in Science and Life: Standards and Dilemmas. Paper presentation: Das gute wissenschaftliche Praxis im heutigen Russland
- Aug. 2015, Shanghai – XIII. Kongress der Internationalen Vereinigung fuer Germanistik (IVG). Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Paper presentaion: Neue Formen niderlaendischer und deutscher Dichtung der Fruehen Neuzeit
- May 2016, США, г. Чикаго, Чикагский унисверситет. Доклад: The 1830 Polish Uprising and "The Bronze Horseman"
National conferences, colloquia and seminars
- March 2000, St. Petersburg – 29. Congress of Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University. Applied and Mathematical Linguistics. Paper presentation: Technical Aspects of Versification in Probability Models of Verse (co-authors: M. Krasnoperova and A. Mukhin)
- Oct. 2008, St. Petersburg – The 2nd St. Petersburg Humboldt-Kolleg: “Technologies of the 21st Century: Biological, Physical, Informational and Social Aspects”. Paper presentation: Distribution of Syllabotonicism in Early Modern European Poetry
- Oct. 2010, St.Petersburg, Russian National library Conference. Paper presentation: Reforma russkogo stikha 18 veka i ee zapadnoevropeiskie istochniki
- April 2012, Moscow – Gasparovskiie chteniia RGGU. Paper presentation: Stikhopodobnye fragmenty v proze A. S. Pushkina i B. L. Pasternaka
- July 2013, Moscow – Conference in honour to 60-years of Professor Yu. Orlickii. Paper presentation: The specific features of Russian poet’s prose
- Apr. 2015, Moscow – Гаспаровские чтения: стиховедение. Доклад: О распространении силлабо-тонического стихосложения в европейской поэзии Раннего нового времени
- May 2016, St.Petersburg - "Идеальное и материальное в истории русской мысли в XIX-XX веках"
- June 2018, St.Petersburg - "Ломоносов и его герои". Доклад на конференции, посвященной 50-летию Д. Я. Калугина, НИУ ВШЭ - Санкт-Петербург.
Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science
- 2022
E. Kazartsev (Evgenii Kazartcev) Становление и ранние этапы развития ямбического стихосложения в Нидерландах, Германии и России
Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses
- 1R. Goroshkova The Key Images In The Christmas Books Of The 1840s By Charles Dickens, 2024
- 2T. Zemskova («Modern Russian and Belorussian Poetic Cultures in Interaction: A Study of Iambic Tetrameter»
Function
Professor in Department for Comparative Literature and Linguistics, co-head of the Department
Digitized Archives Are a Great Treasure
Digital archives and electronic versions of manuscripts are essential to the work of modern-day philologists, linguists, and literary scholars. The possibilities that digitization opens up to researchers were the focus of the second international conference of early career researchers of Russian literature. The conference had the theme of ‘Text as DATA: The Manuscript in the Digital Space’ and was hosted by the HSE Faculty of Humanities.
‘Organising a Double Defence on Zoom Is a Real Challenge’
Alexey Lukashkin, a graduate of a cotutelle doctoral programme in philology arranged by HSE University and the Sorbonne, defended his doctoral thesis before the HSE University Dissertation Council in Philology and Linguistics. Along with a Russian Candidate of Sciences degree in Philology, he received a PhD. The HSE News Service spoke with Alexey about his studies and research.
Quantifying the Power of the Word: HSE Students and Scholars to Study Poetic Texts Using Computer Methods
The Faculty of Humanities is switching to project-based research and teaching, which includes many new collaborative research endeavours. Professor Evgeny Kazartsev, who recently became the head of the HSE School of Philological Studies, told the HSE News Service about Computer Methods for Literary Textual Analysis project.
‘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.
HSE SPb Researchers to Receive Russian Science Foundation Grants
The HSE Internet Studies Lab has got an opportunity to study political fake news for the period of three years, and the project ‘Modern Models of Poetics: a Reconstructive Approach’ received a two-year extension of funding.