Faculty of Philology and Cultural Sciences
An introduction to Transcultural Studies
Art systems
Author's cinema. The era of directors
Jan Levchenko
(Philologist, culturologist)
Author's Voice in Contemporary Fiction
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Sergey Lebedenko
(Independent correspondent for Novaya Gazeta, literary critic, teacher of journalism and literary excellence)
Autobiographical Poetics of the Russian Diaspora
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Victor Dimitriev
(Candidate of Philological Sciences, specialist in Russian émigré literature of the interwar period, Russian-French relations, and the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Victor Dmitriev
(PhD of philology)
Classical rhetoric
Gasan Guseinov
(Doctor of Philology)
Contemporary Russian Fiction (1990s–2020s). Authors and Trends
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Contemporary Russian-language dramaturgy as a tool for studying reality 2000-2023
Natalya Skorokhod
(Doctor of Art History, play writer, screenwriter, author of numerous articles on the history, theory and practice of drama and staging)
Current historical discourse and poetry: document, grotesque, fiction in Russian prose
Anna Sergeeva-Klyatis
(Doctor in philology, Researcher in the International Institute for Holocaust Research)
Dramatic Writing. How to write for film and theatre today: an introduction to contemporary drama
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Early Cinema: Key Films and Research Practices
Anna Kovalova
(Visiting assistant professor at the University of Pittsburg)
Experimental Drama: A Practical Course
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Evgeniy Stashkov
(Sheffield-based playwright, artist, teacher, founder of the international independent festival of non-conventional drama “Nim”)
Fundamentals of the Literature Theory
Literature Theory
Anna Sergeeva-Klyatis
(Doctor in philology, Researcher in the International Institute for Holocaust Research)
Fundamentals of the Literature Theory
Literature Theory
Anna Sergeeva-Klyatis
(Doctor in philology, Researcher in the International Institute for Holocaust Research)
Gender issues in uncensored Soviet literature and art
Konstantin Chadov
(Ph.D. program at the Faculty of Slavic Studies, TU Dresden)
Genre: detective, horror, fantasy, historical novel
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Nelly Shulman
(Writer, historian, graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dissertation on Comparative Literature). Publishes in Russian and English)
History of Soviet literature
Natalya Gromova
(Prose writer, historian of Soviet literature, author of articles and books)
Ideological Disputes of the First Wave Emigration
Leonid Lux
(Professor of history, editor-in-chief of the journals Forum of Contemporary Eastern European History and Culture and Forum für Osteuropäische Ideen und Zeitgeschichte)
Imperial music in Russia in the 19th-20th century - formulation of the issue
Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
Intellectual Resistance to Official Ideology in the First Years of the War
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Introduction to death studies
Svetlana Eremeeva
(Candidate of cultural studies, researcher, author of articles on memory studies and death studies)
Introduction to modern literary theory
Literature Theory
Introduction to modern literary theory
Literature Theory
Introduction to Publishing Venture
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Vladimir Kharitonov
(Cand.Sc. in Philosophy, Director of Free University Publishing House, Technical Director of Freedom Letters Publishers)
Introduction to Teleological Poetics
Literature Theory
Evgeny Soshkin
(Ph.D., visiting lecturer at the University of Constanta)
Introduction to Teleological Poetics
Literature Theory
Evgeny Soshkin
(Ph.D., visiting lecturer at the University of Constanta)
Laboratory of the Lasting Catastrophe
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Elena Kostyuchenko
(journalist and writer, works with Novaya Gazeta, Meduza, various foreign media, author of the book “My Beloved Country)
Language policies and mass media of the late Soviet and post-Soviet era
Gasan Guseinov
(Doctor of Philology)
Latin
Inna Karezina
(Scholar of classics, instructor of Ancient Greek and Latin)
Love & Poetics in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Madame Adam: First people and primitive people in the literature of Russian modernism
Evgeny Soshkin
(Ph.D., visiting lecturer at the University of Constanta)
Mandelstam's intertexts: comprehensive analysis and verification
Evgeny Soshkin
(Ph.D., visiting lecturer at the University of Constanta)
Modern Russian language dramaturgy as a tool for studying reality of 2000-2023
National Theater in the 20th Century. Jewish theater in Russia - "Gabima" & GOSET
Vassily Shchedrin
(PhD, specialist in modern Jewish history)
Elena Tartakovskaya
(PhD Theatre studies)
Poetry of Boris Pasternak: Hermeneutics and text comprehension
Anna Sergeeva-Klyatis
(Doctor in philology, Researcher in the International Institute for Holocaust Research)
Poetry of Experiment
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Anna Aksenova
(Cand.Sc. in Philology, ndependent researcher, writer and interpreter)
Publishing
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Rhetorical theories of the Soviet era
Literature Theory
Gasan Guseinov
(Doctor of Philology)
Rhetorical theories of the Soviet era
Literature Theory
Gasan Guseinov
(Doctor of Philology)
Russian cinema
Anna Kovalova
(Visiting assistant professor at the University of Pittsburg)
Russian literature in Exile: "Russian Paris" in the Interwar Period
Victor Dmitriev
(PhD of philology)
Russian Theatre Censorship: History and Modernity
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Mikhail Kaluzhsky
(Playwright and journalist)
Russian theatrical censorship: history and modernity
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Mikhail Kaluzhsky
(Playwright and journalist)
Social Theory Characters
Viktor Vakhshtayn
(Socioilogist, specialist in social theory and microbiology)
Stories of Power: The Practice of Posttraumatic Drama
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Sergey Davydov
(Playwright, screenwriter, poet, author of the novel Springfield. Nominee for the Dar Award, winner of the Kulminatsiya. Play of the Year Award, specially recognized with the Golden Mask National Award. Author of more than 30 plays that have been staged in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Belgrade, Tbilisi, and other cities. Author of the feature film I Have to Run (Germany).)
Study of the reader: history, methods, problems
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The Art of Understanding Music
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Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
The Art of Women Composers in the Context of Male Composer Tradition
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Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
The Boundaries of the "New" Music
Grigoriy Pantielev
(music critic, Cand.Sc. in art history)
The History of Creative Human-AI Interaction from Homer to Nick Bostrom
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Gasan Guseinov
(Doctor of Philology)