Olga A. Bogdanova
DSc in Philology,
Leading Researcher, Department of Russian Literature of the Late 19th – Early 20th Century
Member of the International Dostoevsky Society (from June 2010)
PhD thesis:
Dostoevsky the Novelist in 1860s and the Tradition of Natural School (the Transformation of the Conflict between "Man and Environment") (IWL RAS, 1989)
DSc thesis:
The Tradition of Dostoevsky's "Ideological Novel" in the Russian Prose of the Late 19th – Early 20th Century (IWL RAS, 2009)
Research interests:
Russian Literature of the Late 19th – Early 20th Century, Dostoevsky, Silver Age of Russian Literature, Russian estate in literature and culture.
Teaching Experience:
In the 1990s, Olga Bogdanova taught at the preparatory courses of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1995-1997 she taught at St. Andrew's Biblical Theological Institute. In 1997-2010 she taught at the Russian-American Institute (RAI), formerly the Russian-American Christian Institute (RACI): "Russian Literature of the 19th-20th Centuries", "Russian Literature as a Religious Phenomenon", "Introduction to World Literature", "Foreign Literature of the 19th-20th Centuries", "Comparative Literary Studies", "Literary Genres", "Cultural Studies", "National History". From 2010 to 2013 she was a professor at the Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language (State Institute), where she taught general courses of 19th- and 20th-Century Russian literature and modern Russian literature (from 1990s to 2010s), as well as special courses "Estate Culture in the Russian Literature of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries", "Dostoevsky at the Turn of the 20th Century". Since 2020 she has been a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology at St. Tikhon Orthodox University.
Selected scientific publications
Monographs
- Hermeneutics of the Literary Estate: Theory, History, Modernity: Monograph / ex. ed. M.V. Skorokhodov. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024. 560 p. (Series: “Russian Estate in a Global Context.” Issue 9). https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0783-0
- The phenomenon of the Russian literary estate: from Chekhov to Sorokin+: Collective monograph. Ex. ed. O.A. Bogdanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2020. 344 p. (Series “Russian Estate in the World Context”. Iss. 3)
- Russian Estate and Europe: Diachrony, Nostalgia, Universalism: Collective monograph. Ex. ed. O.A. Bogdanova. Moscow: IWL RAS Publ., 2020. 352 p. (Series “Russian Estate in the World Context”. Iss. 2)
- Komarovich V.L. "All Aspiration": Articles and Studies on F.M. Dostoevsky. Ed. by O.A. Bogdanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2019. 927 p. (In Russ.)
- Estate and Dacha in Russian Literature of the 19th-21st Centuries: Topics, Dinamics, Mithology. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2019. 288 p. (In Russ.)
- Russian Prose of the 19th - Early 20th Century. Main trends: Textbook for Students of Philology. St. Petersburg, Petropolis Publ., 2013. (In Russ.)
- Chulkov G.I. Dostoevsky's Life. Сomp., ed., comment. and introd. article by O.A. Bogdanova. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2015. 472 p. (In Russ.)
- Under the Constellation of Dostoevsky. Artistic Prose between 19th and 20th Century in the Aspect of the Poetics of Genres of Russian Classical Literature. Moscow, 2008. (In Russ.)
- Russian Prose of the 19th - Early 20th Century. Main trends: Textbook for Students of Philology. St. Petersburg, 2013. (In Russ.)
Scopus / Web of Science publications
- “Russian Literary Estate: a Look into the Future.” Problemy istoricheskoy poetiki, vol. 22, no. 3, 2024, pp. 309–328. DOI: 10.15393/j9.art.2024.14063 (In Russ.)
- “The Phenomenon of ‘usadebnost’ and a Contextual Approach to the Literary Estate of the Early 21st Century.” Uchebnye zapiski Orlovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, no. 2 (103), 2024, pp. 157–160. (In Russ.)
- “Estate and Dacha in Russian Literature of the 19-21st Centuries: Current State of Research.” Sfera kul'tury, no. 3 (17), 2024, pp. 43–52. (In Russ.)
- “Dynamics of Narrative Motifs in the Novels of Dostoevsky and Mamleyev.” Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka, vol. 82, no. 4, 2023, pp. 25–34. (In Russ.)
- “The Semiotics of Dacha in Dostoevsky's Story ‘The Eternal Husband’.” Dostoevskii i mirovaia kul'tura. Filologicheskii zhurnal, no. 3 (23), 2023, pp. 66–80. https://doi.org/10.22455/2619-0311-2023-3-66-80
- “The Russo-Japanese War and a New Understanding of Dostoevsky's Inheritance.” Novyi Filologicheskii vestnik, no. 2 (61), 2022, pp. 109–119. (In Russ.)
- “‘And Going Down to the Coffin…’: on Dostoevsky’s Meeting with Merezhkovsky in 1880.” Neizvestnyi Dostoevskii, vol. 9, no. 1, 2022, pp. 38–60. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15393/j10.art.2022.5921
- “Russian Estate in 19th-20th Century: Theoretical Aspect of Research.” Mundo Eslavo, no. 19, 2020, pp. 89–102 (In Russ.)
- “‘Not-good Old Days’: An Experience of Negative Reception of the Estate Culture Between 19th and 20th Centuries.” Studia Litterarum, vol. 5, no. 3, 2020, pp. 252–269. (In Russ.)
- “Estate and Countryside in G.I. tale ‘The Red Horse’.” Novyi filologicheskii vestnik, no. 1 (52), 2020, pp. 97–106. (In Russ.)
- “‘Heterotopia of the Estate’ in Z.N. Gippius' Novel ‘Roman-Tsarevich’ (1931).” Problemy istoricheskoi poetiki, vol. 18, no. 1, 2020, pp. 294–192. (In Russ.)