Alla Yu. Bolshakova

bolshakovaDSc in Philology,

Leading Researcher,
Department of Old Slavic Literatures, IWL RAS

Education
1976–1982 — study at the Department of Russian Language and Literature of School of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1982–1986 — Graduate School of School of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1990-1992 — study at the English Department, Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages

PhD thesis:
The Literary Implementation of Moral Issues in the Work of V.P. Astafiev (MSU, 1989)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:
The Phenomenon of Village Prose (Second Half of the 20th century) (MSU, 2002)

Research interests: literary study, history of Russian literature of the 11th – 21th centuries, Anglo-American literary criticism, philosophy of literature and culture.

Professional Service

Member of the international editorial board of the scientific and pedagogical journal Science and School (VAK, RSCI)

Member of the Council on State Cultural Policy under the Chairman of the Federation Council (Russia) (2008–2016)

Expert of Higher Attestation Commission (Expert Council on Philology and Art History) (2011–2014)

Co-Chairman of the International Scientific Community Russian Literature: Spiritual and Cultural Contexts

Member of the Editorial Board of the literary and philosophical journal Literaturnaya ucheba (2001–2002)

Member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific-Methodical Journal of the Ministry of Education Didakt (1998–2004)

Member of the Editorial Board of the Bio-Bibliographic Reference Book Modern Russian Literary Scholars (Center for Humanitarian Studies, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences RAS) (2008–2010)

Member of the Editorial Board of the Scientific-Theoretical and Methodical Journal Russkaya slovesnost' (2009–2014)

Member of the International Editorial Board of the Scientific-Theoretical and Methodical Journal Sociosfera

Member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal Polilog. Studia Neofilologiczne. Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku International Journal of the Institute of Neophilology in the Pomeranian Academy in Slupsk (Poland).

Member of the Writers’ Union of Russia

Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia

Member of the Russian PEN Center

Awards

  • Winner of the IV All-Russian Artiada for Achievements in the Field of Theory and History of Russian Literature and Literary Criticism (1998)
  • Commemorative Medal 50th Anniversary of the Moscow City Organization of the Writers' Union of Russia (2004)
  • The Winner’s Diploma in the Best Book of the Year Contest of the Book Publishers Association of Russia (For a Monograph from the Phenomenology of Literary Letters series) on the Prose of Contemporary Russian writers, (2006).
  • Anniversary Medal 55 years of the Moscow City Organization of the Writers’ Union Of Russia (2009)
  • Diploma of the Moscow City Writers’ Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia For the faithful service of Russian literature (2009)
  • Diploma of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation For a great contribution to the development of culture (2009).
  • Veteran of Labour (2010)
  • I.A. Bunin Jubilee Medal "For Faithful Service to Russian Literature" (2019)

Academic publications — 11 scientific monographs and over 500 publications in scientific and literary periodicals of Russia and abroad: in the Belarus, Bulgaria, China,  Estonia, Poland, UK, USA, ets.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Archetype – Myth – Concept (Turn of the 20th – 21th Centuries). Ulyanovsk, UlGTU Publ., 2011. In Russ.
  • From Entity to Name. Forew. by Acad. RAS Yu.S. Stepanov. Ulyanovsk, UlGTU Publ., 2010. In Russ.
  • The Birth of the Theory. Ulyanovsk, UlGTU Publ., 2010. In Russ.
  • Wanderers of Russian History (about Vladimir Lichutin’s Prose). St. Petersburg, Fakul'tet filologii i iskusstv SPbGU Publ., 2009. In Russ.
  • Phenomenology of Literary Writing: on the Prose of Yuri Polyakov. Moscow, MAIK Nauka Publ., 2005. In Russ.
  • Peasantry in Russian literature of the 18th – 20th Сenturies. Moscow, Rossiiskaia akademiia obrazovaniia Publ., 2004. In Russ.
  • Phenomenology of Literary Writing: On Prose of Boris Yevseyev. Moscow, Izdatel'stvo MGU “MAKS Press” Publ., 2003. 126 p.; 2nd ed., corr., add. 2004. In Russ.
  • Russian Village Prose of the 20th Century: Code Reading. Shumen (Bulgaria), Izdatel'stvoo Shumenskogo universiteta AKSIOS Publ., 2002. In Russ.
  • The Fate of the Peasantry in Russian Literature. Moscow, Rossiiskaia akademiia obrazovaniia Publ., 2002. In Russ.
  • Nation and Mentality: the Phenomenon of the Village Prose of the 20th Century. Moscow, Komitet Pravitel'stva Moskvy Publ., 2000. In Russ.
  • Village as an Archetype: from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn. Moscow, Komitet Pravitel'stva Moskvy Publ., 1998; 2nd ed., corr., add., 1999. In Russ.

Selected essays

  • “The Poetics of V. Rasputin's Memory: Artistic Time and Medieval Tradition.” Collection  in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of Prof. Dr. Ivaylo Petrov. Veliko Tarnovo, IVIS, 2023, pp. 59–77.  In Russ.
  • “Key Words of  Russian Poetics:  Theory of the Author and Poetics of  V.G. Rasputin.”, transl. Xia Zhonaxian. Russian Literature & Arts (China, Beijing), no. 4,  2023, pp. 91–102.  In Chinese.
  • “Pochvennichestvo and Symbolic Realism of V.P. Astafiev and V.G. Rasputin”. Problemy istoricheskoy poetiki [The Problems of Historical Poetics], vol. 21, no. 3, 2023, pp. 303–327. DOI: 10.15393/j9.art.2023.12584. In Russ.
  • “Key Words of  Russian Poetics:  Symbolic Realism: To the Problem of Artistic Method.”, transl. Xia Zhonaxian. Russian Literature & Arts (China, Beijing), no. 3,  2022, pp. 107–119. In Chinese.
  • “V.I. Belov and Village Prose”. Belovsky Collection: Materials of the All-Russian Scientific Conference with International Participation Creativity of V.I. Belov: Continuation of Traditions and Modern Sound: Scientific Edition, issue 8. Ed.-comp. Baranov S.Y. Vologda, VOUNB Publ., 2022, pp. 7–12. In Russ.
  • “Viktor Astafiev’s ‘Modern Pastoral’: An Experience of an Intertextual Reading.” Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Filologiya, no. 69, 2021, pp. 226–244. DOI: 10.17223/19986645/69/11
  • “Key Words of  Russian Poetics:  Literary Tradition and its Development: from Middle Ages to the Modern Times.”, transl. Anna Chzhou. Russian Literature & Arts (China, Beijing), no. 4, 2021, pp. 115–124. In Chinese.
  • “Medieval Tradition and Genre Renewal in the Subjective Forms of Russian Prose of the 1960s-90s.” Between Metafiction and Non-fiction. Subjectivity in Russian Literature of the Late 20th – early 21st Century. Ed. by Grzegorz Czerwiński, Ewa Pańkowska. Białystok, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2020, pp. 106–119. In Russ.
  • “Traditions of the Russian Medieval  Literature in the Village Prose of the Second Half  of the 20th Century.” Philological Sciences, no. 1, 2020, pp. 127–135. DOI: 10.20339/PhS.1-20.127 
  • “The Medieval Tradition in the Prose of V.P. Astafiev: Genre and Cycle.” Problemy istoricheskoy poetiki [The Problems of Historical Poetics], vol. 18, no. 1, 2020, pp. 342–366  DOI: 10.15393/j9.art.2020.7282. In Russ.
  • “Key Words of Russian Poetics: Archetypes.”, transl. Xia Zhonaxian. Russian Literature, no. 1, 2020, pp. 111–122. In Chinese.
  • “History and Method: Towards the Debate about Russian Village Prose as a Literary Direction.” Bulletin of East Slavic Philology / East Slavic Philology - Literary Studies, issue 8 (32). Gorlovka, NGO VPO GIA Publ., 2019, pp. 18-24. In Russ.
  •  “Archetype of the Split: from Middle Ages to Modern Time.” Acta Editorium. Bulletin of the Russian Christian humanitarian Academy, no. 30, 2019, pp. 55–60. In Russ. 
  • “The Genetic Code of Culture: Literary Archetypes and Cycles of the Russian Middle Ages.” Philosophical Letters. Russian and European Dialogue. National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, the International Laboratory for the Study of Russian and European Intellectual Dialogue of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, no. 2, vol. 2, 2019, pp. 48–71. DOI : 10.17323/2658-5413-2019-2-3-12-24. In Russ. 
  • “God – Peace – Man in the Literature of the Russian Middle Ages.” Przeglad Rusycystyczny / Russian Studies Review (Poland: Journal of the Polish Association of Russian Studies), no 3 (163), 2018, pp. 3–27. In Russ.
  • “The Archetype of Split in Old Russian Literature.” Polilog. Studia Neofilologiczne. Akademia Pomorska w Słupsku. International Journal of the Institute of Neophilology at the Pomeranian Academy in Slupsk (Poland), 2018, no 8. Pp. 5–16. In Russ.
  • “Current Literary Situation: Paradigm Shift.” The History of Russian Literature of the 20th Century in 2 parts, part 2. Textbook, ed. by V.V. Agenosov.  Moscow, YuRAJT Publ., 2018. Pp. 665–685. (Ser. 58. Bachelor. Academic course. 4th ed., trans. and add.). In Russ.
  • “The Memory of Literary Creativity: the ‘Dialogue’ of M. Bakhtin and the ‘Intertextuality’ of Y. Kristeva.” Russian Literature & Arts (Beijing, China), no. 4, 2018,  pp. 21–34. In Chinese.
  • “Philosophical Constants and Artistic Individualization of the Archetype in the Life of Protopope Avvakum.” Voprosy filosofii, no. 11, 2017,  pp. 68–78. In Russ.
  • “The Archetypes of Russian Literature: the Middle Ages – Classic – Modernity.” The Originality and World Significance of Russian Classical Literature (19th – the First Half of the 20th Century). Ideals, Cultural and Philosophical Synthesis, Reception: a Collective Monograph. Moscow, Maska Publ., 2017, pp. 28–36. In Russ.
  • “Live and Remember: the Poetics of V. Rasputin.” East Slavic Philology. Literary Criticism. Collection of Scientific Papers, issue 4 (28). Gorlovka, VPO “GIIYa” Publ., 2017, pp. 32–38. In Russ.
  • “To the Very Things!” Phenomenological Foundations of Literary Criticism.” Filologicheskii klass, no. 3 (45), 2016, pp. 68–74. In Russ.
  • “Formation of the Literary Archetype in Old Russian Literature.” Ancient Russia: The Space of a Book Word. Historical and Philological Research, ex. ed. V.M. Kirillin. Moscow, Yazyki slavyanskoi kul'tury Publ., 2015, pp. 43–62. In Russ.
  • “On the Role of the Plot in Russian Literature: From Social Realism to the Classics of the 20th Century.” Filologicheskii klass, no. 3 (41), 2015, pp. 12–20. In Russ.
  • “Word about Vladimir Lichutin.” Preface. Lichutin V.V. Complete Works: in 14 vols, vol. 1: Freemason: Tale, Novel. Chief Ed. A.Yu. Bolshakova. Moscow, Veche Publ., 2015, pp. 5–30. In Russ.
  • “Women Prose in Contemporary Russia: Theoretical Aspects.” New Women's Writing in Russia and East Central Europe: Gender, Generation, and Identities, ed. R. Marsh. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. In English.
  • “The Phenomenon of  Village Prose”. Russian Literature of the 20th Century: a New View, vol. 2. Moscow,  IWL RAS Publ., 1990, pp.108−119. In Russ.

Scientific publishing

  • Literature, сulture and аolklore of Slavic peoples. XIII International Congress of Slavists. Мoscow, Nasledie IWL RAS Publ., 2002 (Scientific Secretary)
  • Literature, culture and folklore of Slavic peoples. Conference proceedings IWL RAS. Мoscow, Nasledie IWL RAS Publ., 2002 (Scientific Secretary)
  • Theory of literature: in 4 vols. Мoscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2003. Vol. 3: Kinds and genres.. (Responsible Co-Editor и Scientific Secretary)
  • Russia and the West at the beginning of the new millennium. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature RAS. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2007. (Executive Editor and Compiler)
  • XXI century. Results of the literary decade: Language – Culture – Society. Materials of the International scientific-practical conference. April 21 – December 2010. Moscow; Ulyanovsk, 2011 (Executive Editor and Compiler)
  • Lichutin V.V. Complete Works: in 14 vols. Chief Ed. A.Yu. Bolshakova. Moscow, Veche Publ., 2015–2019. (Editor-in-Chief)