Andrey L. Toporkov

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DSc in Philology,

corresponding member of RAS (since 2006), Professor, Director of Research, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3106-3819

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Research interests:

  • folklore,
  • Russian literature,
  • history of philology,
  • Slavic ethnography.

PhD thesis:

Domestic Utensils in Polesie Beliefs and Rituals (Nineteenth – the beginning of the Twentieth Centuries) (1986)

DSc thesis:

The Theory of Myth in Russian Nineteenth Century Philology (1998)

Professional service

Member of the National Committee of Slavists

Member of the Committee on Folklore Studies at the National Committee of Slavists

Member of the Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming, at the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)

Head of the Editorial Board of the book series “‘Eternal’ Plots and Images”

Member of the Editorial Boards of the following journals: Studia Litterarum, Literaturni Fakt, Russkaya Literatura, Incantatio.

Teaching experience:

Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Awards:

2008 – Winner of the first prize of the P.G. Bogatirev Competition of folklore studies for the book Charms in Russian Manuscript Tradition of the Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. Moscow: Indrik Publ., 2005.

 

Academic publications — over 540 publications, including 6 monographs.

Selected scientific publications

Monographs

  • Conspiraciesfromarchival sources of the 18th – first third of the 20th century: in 2 vols., vol. 2, publ. byA.B. Ippolitova, A.L. Toporkov. Moscow, Indrik Publ., 2023. 536 p. (In Russ.) (Series “Traditional spiritualculture of the Slavs; Publication of texts”)

Edited collections and works (selected)

  • Sisinieva Legend in Folklore and Manuscript Traditions of the Middle East, Balcans and Eastern Europe, ed. by A.L. Toporkov. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2017. 856 p. (In Russ.)
  • Unknown Pages of Russian Study of Folklore, ed. by A.L. Toporkov. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2015. 576 p. (In Russ.)
  • “Eternal” Plots and Images in Literature and Art of Russian Modernism, ed. by A.L. Toporkov. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2015. 415 p. (In Russ.)
  • Vyacheslav Ivanov. Tale of Prince Svetomir, ed. by A.L. Toporkov, O.L. Fetisenko, A.B. Shishkin. Moscow, Ladomir, Nauka, 2015. 824 p. (In Russ.)
  • Oral Charms in Structural and Comparative Light. Proceedings of the Conference of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research’s (ISFNR) Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming. 27–29th October 2011, Moscow, ed. by Tatyana A. Mikhailova, Jonathan Roper, Andrey L. Toporkov, Dmitry S. Nikolayev. Moscow, Probel-2000 Publ., 2011. 222 p. (In Russ.)
  • Russian Folklorists: a Biobibliographical Guide. Т.G. Ivanova and A.L. Toporkov. Мoscow, Probel-2000, 2010. 240 p. (In Russ.)
  • Polesie Charms (in the Records of the 1970s–1990s), comp., prep., comm. by Т.А. Agapkina, Е.Е. Levkievskaya, А.L. Toporkov. Мoscow, Indrik Publ., 2003. 752 p. (In Russ.)
  • The Non-Existent Manuscripts. Forgery in Slavic Folklore, ed. by A.L. Toporkov, T.G. Ivanova, L.P. Lapteva, E.E.  Levkievskaya. Moscow, Ladomir Publ., 2002. 979 p. (In Russ.)
  • Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture, ed. by M. Levitt and A.L. Toporkov. Moscow, Ladomir Publ., 1999. 700 p. (In Russ.)

Scopus / Web of Science publications

  • “Problems of publishing and commenting on Russian magical folklore.” Folklore: Structure, Typology, Semiotics, no. 7 (2), 2024, pp. 81–108. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2024-7-2-81-108. 
  • “Afanas’ev’s Poetic Views of the Slavs’ on Nature and Its Role in Understanding Paganism and Mythology.” Religions, no. 15, 2024, pp. 206–215. (In English)

Selected Essays

  • “A.V. William Francis Ryan (1937–2023).” Slavic Studies, no. 2024, no. 1, pp. 142–145. (In Russ.)(Co-authored with V. Chernetsov)
  • “An Episode from the History of Russian Folklore Studies: G.I. Parikhin’s Letters to I.P. Sakharov.” Literaturnyi fakt, no. 8, 2018, pp. 68–103. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/22455/2541-8297-2018-8-68-103
  • “Wondrous Dressing with Celestial Bodies in Russian Charms and Lyrical Poetry.” Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, vol. 71, 2018, pp. 207–216. (In Russ.)