Вдовин Алексей Владимирович

Education and Degrees

2023

Doctor of Sciences*
HSE University

2011

PhD
University of Tartu
Thesis Title: The Concept of "Head of Literature" in the Russian Literary Criticism of the 1830-60s

2007

Degree
Vyatka State University of Humanities

* Doctor of Sciences
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)

Membership

The Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

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, 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; 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, 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; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science

2023
A. Vdovin Жанр «рассказа из крестьянского быта» в русской литературе до отмены крепостного права: сюжетика, поэтика, идеология

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

Member of editorial board of 'Russian Literature' (Amsterdam)

30

Sep

2021

‘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 19^th-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’.

14

Jul

2020

‘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.

29

Dec

2017

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.

30

Nov

2016

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.

4

Oct

2016

Alexey Vdovin's Talk at Yale University

Professor Vdovin to Give a Talk at Yale Conference "The Russian Century"

23

May

2016

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.

14

Apr

2016

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

17

Nov

2015

Report by Alexey Vdovin at Humboldt University of Berlin

On November 11^th, 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.

Alexey Vdovin

Education and Degrees

Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience

Awards and Accomplishments

Membership

Courses (2024/2025)

Courses (2023/2024)

Courses (2022/2023)

Courses (2021/2022)

Courses (2020/2021)

Timetable for today

Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science

Conferences

‘Students Should Read Dostoevsky or Tolstoy Because They Help Readers See beyond the Noise of Our Present’

‘Projects Will Bring Research Teams Together’

Young HSE Researchers Receive Awards from Moscow Government

HSE School of Philology Researchers at ASEEES Conference in Washington

Alexey Vdovin's Talk at Yale University

Staff Members of the School of Philology Discuss ‘Distant Reading’ by Franco Moretti

Alexey Vdovin's Talk at Russian and East European Institute (Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington, USA)

Report by Alexey Vdovin at Humboldt University of Berlin