Alexander F. Stroev

DSc in Philology, 

Professor of General and Comparative Literature, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (Paris, France).

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PhD thesis:

Typology of Novel Genres and French Novel of the Enlightenment (1983).

Doctoral thesis:

Defense of “habilitation” (the right to scientific research direction = doctoral thesis) French-Russian Scientific Relations of the 18^th Century at the University Sorbonne Paris 4 (1998)

Research interests:

Comparative literature; French novel of the Enlightenment; literary connections of the 17^th century.

Professional and teaching activities:

1982–1989 — Junior, then Senior Researcher at the All-Union State Library of Foreign Literature (Moscow).

1989–1999 — Junior, then Senior Researcher at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS.

1994–1996 — Visiting Professor at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.

1997 — Visiting Professor at the École normale supérieure (Paris) and the University of Geneva. Visiting Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of the 18th Century, Montpellier.

1999–2001 — Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature Studies, Faculty of Philology, Marc Bloch University (Strasbourg).

2001–2006 — Professor at the Department of French Literature, University of Western Brittany (Brest).

2006–present — Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

2008–2012 — Head of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

Author of over 200 scientific works, including 4 monographs.

Selected scientific publications

Monographs

• La Russie et la France des Lumières: Monarques et philosophes, écrivains et espions. Paris, Institut d’études slaves, 2017. 512 p. (In French)
• Ériger une République souveraine, libre et indépendante (Mémoires de Charles-Léopold Andreu de Bilistein sur la Moldavie et la Valachie au XVIIIe siècle). Bucarest, Editure Roza Vânturilor, 2001. 200 p. (En collaboration avec Ileana Mihaila) (In French)
• “Those Who Correct the Fortune.” Adventurers. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 1998. 400 p. (In Russ.)
• Les Aventuriers des Lumières. Paris, PUF, 1997. 350 p. (In French)

Selected Essays

• “Iskusstvo ubivat': ‘Siniaia Boroda’ Sharlia Perro.” Shagi/ Steps, no. 10 (4), 2024, pp. 322–333. (In Russ.)
• “The genreof forgedpolitical wills: from Peter I to ” Mystification in Slavic culture: poetics and practices: a collection of scientific papers. Мoscow, Institute of Slavic Studies of the RAS Publ., 2023, pp. 217–263. (Series“Categories and mechanisms of Slavic culture”)