Natalia V. Kornienko

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DSc in Philology,

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the Department of Modern Russian Literature and Russian Emigrant Literature, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IWL RAS)

Scopus ID: 56378378300, 55599143600

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Education:

Komsomolsk-na-amure Pedagogical University (1974).

Gradiate studies at the A.I. Gerzen Leningrad State Pedagogical University.

PhD thesis:

Philosophical Quest and Artistic Specificity of Andrey Platonov's Work (1979)

DSc thesis:

The History of the Text and Andrey Platonov’s Biography (1992)

Research interests:

  • history of twentieth century Russian literature,
  • textology and source studies

Professional service

Head of the Expert Committee in philology and art studies, Russian Humanities Fund (2011–2016)

Member of the Higher Attestation Committee of Russia (since 2016)

Member of the Writers' Union of Russia and of the Editorial Board of the series Literaturnye pamyatniki (since 1999)

Distinctions and awards:

Prize winner of the journals Moskva and Oktyabr’; the winner of the prize “Tradition” of the Writers’ Union of Russia.

 

Selected scientific publications

Edited collections

  • “Country of Philosophers” by Andrey Platonov: Problems of Artistic Work. Issue 8. Eds. N.V. Kornienko, M.V. Bogomolova, E.A. Rozhentseva. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2017. (In Russ.)
  • “Country of Philosophers” by Andrey Platonov: Problems of Artistic Work Issue 8. Eds. N.V. Kornienko. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2011. (In Russ.)

Edited works

  • Platonov A. Works, vol. 2: 1926–1927. Novellas, short stories, scripts, essays.  Ed. by N.V. Kornienko. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2016. (In Russ.)
  • Bulgakov M. White Guard. Ed. N.V. Kornienko. Moscow, Ladomir Publ., 2015. (Literaturnie pamyatniki series.) (In Russ.)
  • Ivanov Vs. The Secret of Secrets. Tales and Novellas. Letters. Ed. by N.V. Kornienko, Vyach. Vs. Ivanov, E.A. Papkova. Novosibirsk, Sviniin and Sons Publ., 2015. (In Russ.)
  • Platonov A. “…I lived a life.” Letters, 1920–1950. N. Kornienko (introduction) and E. Shubina, Moscow, AST Publ., 2013. (In Russ.)
  • Tolstoy A. Literaturnie pamyatniki series. Ed. by N.V. Kornienko. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2012. (In Russ.)
  • Ivanov Vs. The Secret of Secrets.  Ed. by N.V. Kornienko. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 2012. (Literaturnie pamyatniki series.) (In Russ.)

Essays

  • “They fought for the Motherland": Russian Literature in the Days of the Battle of Stalingrad.” Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vol. 93, no. 4, 2023, pp. 317-322. DOI: 10.31857/S0869587323040035. In Russ.
  • “Jubilees of the October Revolution and the Russian Literature of the 20th Century.” Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii nauk, no. 88 (3), 2018, pp. 169–172. (In Russ.)
  • “I. Babel in Andrey Platonov’s ‘Fabric of Literature’.” “Country of Philosophers” by Andrey Platonov: Problems of Artistic Work, issue 8. Eds. N.V. Kornienko, M.V. Bogomolova, E.A. Rozhentseva. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2017, p. 49–61. (In Russ.)
  • “‘Fact’ and Fiction in the History of the Town Gradov.”To Hear the Earth’s Axis. Festschrift for Thomas Langerak. (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies 26). Amsterdam, Pegasus Publ., 2016, pp. 255–269. (In Russ.)
  • “Kontrolliert, schikaniert, ruiniert Andrej Platonov im Visier der Tscheka.” Osteuropa, no. 8–10, 2016,  pp. 149–164 (In German)
  • “Literare Criticism and Cultural Policy during the New Economic Policy? 1921–1927.” A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011, pp. 17–42. (In English)
  • “Andrey Platonov’s Wartime Stories: The Historical Dynamics of Reception.” Russian Literature, vol. 73, 2013, pp. 133–162. (In Russ.)
  • “A.P. Platonov’s Archives as a Cultural Phenomenon.” Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii nauk, vol. 78,  2008, pp. 215–221. (In Russ.)
  • “Birth of a masterpiece (‘Motherland of Electricity’): Metamorphoses of a Platonov text of the 1930.” Essays in poetics, vol. 27, 2002, pp. 18–32. (In Russ.)