Natalija Vidmarović

DSc in Philology

Ordinary Professor of Zagreb State University (Zagreb, Chorvatija)

Education:

graduated from the Philology Department of the Moscow State University (1980)

graduated from the Philosophy Department  of the Zagreb State University (1987)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:
Weaving Words in the Medieval Slavic Literatures (1996)

 

 

 

 

Research interests: Old Russian literature of the 11th–16th centuries, Old Church Slavonic, medieval Slavic literature, Russian literature of 19th century.

Professional Service

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal International Postgraduate Bulletin. Russian Language Abroad (Pushkin Institute), Scientific Search (Shuya, Russia), Research Journal of Russian Language and Literature (Tehran, Iran).

Awards

Awards for scientific, teaching and translation activities.

 

Academic publications — over 70, including 3 monographs.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • “Sacred Silence” in Old Russian Literature. Zagreb, FF Press, 2003. 113 p. (In Russ.)
  • The language of Hagiography: Text and Context. Moscow, RSUH Publ., 2009. 221 p. (In Russ.)
  • Hermeneutics of Old Russian Literature in the Context of “Small” and “Big” Time. Zagreb, FF Press, 2019. 200 p. (In Russ.)

Selected Essays

  • “On Fate and/or Providence in Pushkin’s Short Story ‘The Blizzard’.” Slovo.ru: baltic accent, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020, pp. 35–46. (In Russ.)
  •  “Teocentrism and Anthropocentrism in the Terms ‘Self’ and ‘Other’.” Zbornik Matice srpske za slavistiku, no. 88, 2015, pp. 27–39. (In English)
  •  “Hagiographic Tradition in the ‘Life of Archpriest Avvakum’.” Studia Slavica Savariensia, no. 1–2, 2013, pp. 473–478. (In Russ.) DOI: 10.17668/SSS.2013.1-2.473
  • “Insolence and Boldness in the Righteous Stories of N.S. Leskov: the Christian Aspect of Comprehension.” Problemy istoricheskoi poetiki. Evangel'skii tekst v russkoi literature XVIII–XX vv., no. 1, 2012, pp. 241–251. (In Russ.)
  • “Aesthetics of Medieval Preaching: Croatian Translation of the Sermon on Law and Grace by Metropolitan Hilarion.” Fakhovyi ta khudozhnik pereklad: teoriia, metodologiia, praktika. Kiev, Ukraina Publ., 2011. (In Russ.)
  • “On the Translation of the Medieval Text (Sermon on Law and Grace by Metropolitan Hilarion in Croatian).” Istoriko-kul'turnyi i ekonomicheskii potentsial Rossii: nasledie i sovremennost', ed. by E. Krasnopevcev. Velikii Novgorod, Filial RSUH Publ., 2011, pp. 80–87. (In Russ.)
  • “Image and Text in the Sermon on Law and Grace by Metropolitan Hilarion.” Studia Slavica Savariensia, no. 1, 2011, pp. 353–357. (In Russ.)
  • “The Role of Hagiography in Russian Spiritual Culture.” Romanovskie chteniia. Dinastiia Romanovykh i rossiiskaia kul'tura, ed. by A. Shipilov. Kostroma, KGU imeni N.A. Nekrasova Publ., 2010, pp. 155–161. (In Russ.)
  •  “The Iconic Character of the Image in the Story “Odnodum” by N.S. Leskov.” Dukhovnye nachala russkogo iskusstva i prosveshcheniia, ed. by A.V. Motorin. Velikii Novgorod, Novgorodskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Publ., 2010, pp. 85–92. (In Russ.)
  • “Verbal Visualization as an Element of Medieval Preaching.” Motorin, A.V., editor. Dukhovnye nachala russkogo iskusstva i prosveshcheniia: Materialy IX Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii. Velikii Novgorod, Novgorodskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Publ., 2009, pp. 29–36. (In Russ.)
  • “On the Text Distortion.” Dukhovnye nachala russkogo iskusstva i prosveshcheniia, ed. by A.V. Motorin. Velikii Novgorod, Novgorodskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Publ., 2008, pp. 266–275. (In Russ.)
  • “Estimated Vocabulary in the Description of the West by Medieval Russian Scribes.” Studia Slavica Savariensia, vol. 17, no. 1–2, 2008, pp. 417–431. (In Russ.)

    Teaching

1989 – present time — Ordinary Professor of Zagreb State University (Zagreb, Chorvatija).

Lecture courses — Historical Grammar of the Russian Language, Analysis of Works of Russian Literature of the 11th–16th Centuries, Old Church Slavonic and Stylistics of the Russian language.

Lecture courses on Old Russian literature in Russia (Kemerovo University, Baltic University, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow), Lithuania (Klaipeda, Andrei Rublev School and Klaipeda University) and Italy (University of Padua).