Editorial Board
Chief Editor
Larisa N. Poluboyarinova
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department of Foreign Literatures, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Larisa N. Poluboyarinova graduated in 1986 from Kemerovo State University, where she specialised in the history of German literature. In 1990, she earned a candidate’s degree in philology from Leningrad State University (now St Petersburg University) and in 2007, a doctor’s degree in philology from the same university. Professor Poluboyarinova has many years of experience working as an academic advisor for postgraduate students, conducting in-depth research and cooperating with colleagues at European universities. As a visiting professor, she has taught at the Universities of Freiburg, Braunschweig, Koblenz-Landau and Turku. She is an Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Russia, a member of the Presidium of the Weimar Goethe-Society, and a member of the Presidium of the Russian Union of Germanists. Ms. Poluboyarinova has authored a number of monographs, textbooks and teaching manuals on foreign literature and has published in such journals as Questions of Literature, Arcadia, Goethe-Jahrbuch, Stifter-Jahrbuch, Orbis Litterarum and World Literature Studies. She has completed internships at universities in Germany and Austria and has been a guest lecturer at universities in Germany, Austria and Finland. Her research interests are the comparative study of literature, the history and theory of comparative studies, intermediality and the history and poetics of German literature in the 18th–21st centuries.
Executive Editor
Svetlana Yu. Rubtsova
Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of English for Students in Economics and Law, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia orcid.org/0000-0003-2684-5872
Svetlana Iurievna Rubtsova graduated from Leningrad State University (now St Petersburg University) with a degree in philology in 1977. Her first occupations included working as a translator and interpreter. She served as head of the Department of English for Social Studies Faculties from 1989–1999 and head of the Department of English for Economics and Law in 1999. She has been supervisor for the tertiary level educational programmes Translation for Professional Communication and The Guide-Interpreter since 1998 and, more recently, dean of the Faculty of Modern Languages at St Petersburg University since 2017. Dr Rubtsova is a member of a number of professional associations including the Union of Translators of Russia, the International ESP Teachers’ Association and the Translation Teachers’ Association. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes (Serbia) indexed be the Web of Science and of the interdisciplinary scholarly almanac Religion, Church and Society indexed by the Russian Science Citation Index (Russia). Professor Rubtsova is a translator from English and Dutch into Russian and an honorary translator of the Foundation for the Production & Translation of Dutch Literature. She is the author of textbooks, dictionaries, syllabi and curricula, and more than eighty scholarly papers. The scope of her research interests embraces translation studies, Dutch literature, social linguistics and cognitive linguistics.
Board Secretary
Iuliia S. Rets
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia orcid.org/0000-0002-5912-0790
Iuliia S. Rets graduated from St Petersburg University in history. She completed her postgraduate studies at the same university specializing on Jewish culture at the Faculty of Philosophy. In 2017 she got her master’s degree in philology from St Petersburg University as part of the programme ‘Theory and history of language. Languages of Europe’. She wrote her thesis on the topic ‘Discourse Markers in Yiddish: Semantics and Pragmatics’. Ms. Rets translates from Yiddish and Hebrew. In 2015, she received scholarships and conducted research at The Hebrew University (Israel) and St. John’s College, Oxford University (UK). Her research interests include Yiddish, Germanic studies, pragmatics, social linguistics, the theory of language contact.
Editorial Board
Tatiana I. Afanasyeva
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia orcid.org/0000-0002-3757-3852
Tatiana I. Afanasyeva graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 1996. From 1996 to 1999, she stayed on as a postgraduate student under the guidance of Professor Tatiana Vsyavolodovna Rozhdestvenskaya and defended her candidate’s thesis in 2000 on the topic ‘The Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts in the Slavic Manuscript Tradition of the 13th–15th Centuries: A linguistic-textual Analysis’. In 2012, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic ‘Ancient Slavic Translation of Liturgy in the Manuscript Tradition of the 11th–15th Centuries’. This dissertation was published as two monographs: ‘Ancient Slavonic Interpretations of Liturgy in the Manuscript Tradition of the 12th–16th Centuries’ and ‘The Liturgy of John Chrysostom and Basil the Great in the Slavic Tradition (According to Manuscripts of the 11th–15th Centuries)’. From 2000 to the present, she has been working in the Russian Department at the Faculty of Philology at St Petersburg University. In 2007, she became an associate professor in that department and in 2017, a full professor. She teaches philological disciplines of the historical cycle: the Old Slavonic language, the history of the Russian literary language, Slavic paleography and textual criticism. She has lectured at the University of Florence and at the Institut national des langues et civilization orientales (Paris) and completed internships at the University of Würzburg (Germany, on a DAAD scholarship) and at Ohio State University (USA). Professor Afanasyeva is the author of more than 50 scholarly publications. Her research interests span a wide range of topics, from the Old Slavonic language, Slavic paleography and the history of the Russian literary language to ancient Slavic translations from the Greek and the history of the Byzantine and Slavic religious services.
Valeria E. Chernyavskaya
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Deputy Director, Institute of Humanities, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia orcid.org/0000-0002-6039-6305
Valeria E. Chernyavskaya graduated in 1990 from Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University, she studied Linguistics, Major German, Minor English. She has also received her academic qualification (PhD in Linguistics, Thesis on peer reviews in scientific communication, 1996; Habilitation 2000, Thesis on intertextuality in scientific communication) at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Saint Petersburg. She has received grants to conduct research at the University of Vienna, Institute of Linguistics, Austria, 1999–2000, supported by the Austrian Academic Exchange Service; at the University of Potsdam, 1994–1995, 2000–2001, 2007, 2009, 2016; the University of Leipzig, Institute of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Germany, 2012–2013, supported by the German Academic Exchange Service. Her main research interests are located in the fields of text linguistics, discourse studies, they particularly include multimodality, scientific communication. She is full professor of Applied Linguistics at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.
Dan E. Davidson
Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Foreign Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Education, Doctor Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Russian and Second Language Acquisition, Director Emeritus, Russian Language Institute Office, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, USA; President Emeritus, American Councils for International Education (ACTR/ACCELS), Director, Research Institute, American Councils for International Education, Washington, USA orcid.org/0000-0003-3774-724X
Dan E. Davidson received his B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1965, majoring in German, Russian, Humanities and Slavic and Soviet Area Studies. He also studied Germanic and Slavic Studies at Rheinische Kaiser Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität (the University of Bonn, Germany). He defended his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, focusing on Russian Literature, Russian Linguistics, Serbo-Croatian, and German/Russian Literary Relations. Upon graduation from the University of Kansas, he taught Russian at Amherst College from 1971 until 1976, and then at Bryn Mawr College from 1976 to the present. He has also held adjunct or visiting professorships at Columbia University, Harvard University, The University of Maryland, College Park and The University of Pennsylvania. Mr Davidson has authored thirteen books and more than 60 academic articles. His research areas encompass Russian studies, second-language acquisition, historical semantics and lexical pragmatics.
Elena V. Erofeeva
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Perm State University, Perm, Russia orcid.org/0000-0002-6659-6519
Elena V. Erofeeva graduated from Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg State University) in 1987, specializing in structural and applied linguistics. In 1993, she gained a candidate’s degree in philology and in 2006, a doctoral degree, also in philology. She has authored a number of monographs, anthologies and teaching manuals on sociolinguistics and regional speech, and she has published in such journals as The Journal of Psycholinguistics, Issues of Cognitive Linguistics, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, The Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences. She has had internships at universities in the UK, Germany and Norway. Her research interests lie in the areas of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, oral speech, regiolect, sociolect, phonetics, lexis, semantics, text and statistical modeling.
Dmitriy Yu. Ilin
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department of Russian Philology, Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia orcid.org/0000-0001-6387-757Х
Dmitriy Yu. Ilin graduated from Volgograd State University in 1991, specializing in the Russian Language. In 1998, he earned a candidate’s degree in philology, and in 2012, a doctor’s degree in philology. He has authored many monographs and teaching manuals on the modern Russian language and has published in journals such as Problems of Onomastics, Logos of Onomastics, The Science Journal of Volgograd State University and Linguistics, Philology & People among others. He has been a guest lecturer at universities in the USA, Poland and Bulgaria. His research interests span a wide range of topics, from onomastics, lexicology, linguoculturology, and morphology to functional semantics, language norms and teaching methods for Russian as a foreign language.
Maria L. Kalenchuk
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Director of the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia orcid.org/0000-0001-8245-0483
Maria L. Kalenchuk graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1978. She was awarded a candidate’s degree in philology in 1986 after defending her thesis on the topic ‘Features of the Implementation of Consonant Phonemes at the Junctions of Morphemes in the Modern Russian literary language’. In 1993, she earned a degree as a doctor of philology, the topic of her thesis being ‘The Orthoepic System of the Modern Russian Literary Language’. Since 1994, she has been a professor in the Russian Language Department at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, and since 2004, she has been working as a leading researcher in the Phonetics Department at the Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2017, she was named director of this institute. She is the author of more than 150 scholarly publications. Her academic interests are in the area of phonetics, phonology, orthoepy and lexicography.
Andrej L. Malchukov
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Visiting Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany orcid.org/0000-0001-7117-7848
Andrej L. Malchukov graduated with honours from Leningrad State University, earning his first degree in the field of Germanic philology. In 1990, he received a candidate’s degree in philology, defending his thesis on ‘The Structure of a Simple Verb Sentence in the Even Language’, and in 2002, he earned the degree of doctor of philology for his thesis on ‘The Syntax of the Even Language: Structural, Semantic and Communicative Aspects’. He is affiliated with the St. Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Research (within the Russian Academy of Sciences), since 2002 as a senior researcher in the Department of Altaic Languages. Apart from descriptive work on Siberian (particularly Tungusic) languages, his main research interests lie in the domain of morpho-syntactic typology. He is a member of the St. Petersburg Typology Group. Since 2006, he has been taking part (together with Bernard Comrie and Martin Haspelmath) in a project on the typology of ditransitive constructions (which is funded by the DFG, or German Research Foundation, and based at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig) and a follow-up project on the typology of valency classes.
Irina A. Podtergera
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany orcid.org/0000-0002-4125-5793
Irina A. Podtergera graduated from the Far Eastern State University in 1994 with a degree in Russian Language and Literature. In 2000, she earned a candidate’s degree in philology at St Petersburg State University after defending her thesis on the topic ‘Letters and Messages from Simeon of Polotsk’. She taught in the Department of Slavic Philology at St Petersburg University and in the Department of Intercultural Communication at St Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts from 2000 to 2005, and then, from 2008 to 2012, in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology at the University of Bonn (Germany). She was a researcher and associate professor at the University of Freiburg (Germany) from 2012 to 2017, when she became a full professor. During the academic year of 2016-2017, she was a visiting professor of ancient Slavic philology and Balkan studies at the Slavic Institute of the University of Vienna. In 2018, she underwent habilitation in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Freiburg based on her dissertation ‘Einflussforschung und russische Sprachgeschichte’ and a scholarly paper on the topic ‘Die postjugoslavische sprachenpolitische Debatte’. Since 2018, Ms. Podtergera has been a privat-docent (or doctor habilitatus, which corresponds to the Russian academic degree of doctor of philology) and has the right to occupy a professorship in the field of Slavic philology. Also in 2018, she became a professor of Slavic linguistics at the University of Heidelberg, and then she was appointed head of the Department of Slavic Linguistics at the same university. Her fields of interest are Slavic studies, Balkan studies and the history of Russian literature.
Andrey D. Stepanov
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), PhD, Professor, Department of History of Russian Literature, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia orcid.org/0000-0003-0798-4914
Andrei D. Stepanov graduated from Leningrad State University (now St Petersburg University) in 1991, specializing in the history of Russian literature. He received a candidate’s degree in philology from St Petersburg University in 1996, a Ph.D. from Åbo Akademi University in Finland in 2005 and a doctor of philology degree from Moscow State University, also in 2005. His research interests include modern theories of literature, the history of culture, the theory of speech acts and speech genres, Anton Chekhov’s poetics, contemporary Russian prose, the teaching methodology of Russian as a foreign language and rhetoric. He has authored many monographs, textbooks and teaching manuals on Russian literature. He has published in such journals as Russian Literature, New Literary Review, The Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Literature and Language Series, Scando-Slavica and Canadian-American Slavic Studies. He has completed internships at universities in the USA and Finland. He has also been a guest lecturer at universities in the Republic of Korea, China, Belgium, Great Britain, the USA, Finland and Germany.
Olga A. Suleimanova
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics and Translation Studies of the Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia orcid.org/0000-0002-4972-0338
Olga Arkadyevna Suleimanova graduated from Leningrad State University in 1979 with a degree in Romance and Germanic languages and literature (English). O.A. Suleimanova received Ph.D. in philology in comparative-historical, typological, and comparative linguistics and translation theory in 1987, and a Doctor of Philology degree in the fields of the theory of language and the Russian language (2001). Prof. Suleimanova is the author of over 150 papers and teaching aids. She has served as the executive editor of a number of anthologies and collective monographs, including some published in Germany and the UK. Her research interests include linguistic semantics and theoretical and applied aspects of translation.
Valery I. Tiupa
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Historical Poetics, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia orcid.org/0000-0002-1688-2787
Valery I. Tiupa graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Moscow University in 1969, and completed his postgraduate studies at the same university in 1972. He went on to defend his candidate’s thesis in 1974, at Moscow University. In 1979–80, he studied at the Sorbonne. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1990, also at Moscow University. In 1992, he became a full professor. He has lectured at universities in Poland, Germany, Japan, Vietnam and South Korea. He is editor in chief of the journal New Philological Bulletin and co-editor of the international web journal Narratorium. Mr. Tiupa is also a member of the editorial boards of seven scholarly journals. He is the author of more than 400 academic publications, including 21 books. The areas of his research encompass the following: the theory of literature, narratology, literary analysis, aesthetics, rhetoric, the theory of communication and discourse analysis, comparative studies, Pushkin studies, Czech studies and the methodology of literary education.
Vittorio S. Tomelleri
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor of Slavic Philology, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy orcid.org/0000-0001-7513-7587
Vittorio S. Tomelleri graduated from the University of Milan (Italy) in 1991, specialising in classical philology. In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in Slavic studies from the Sapienza University of Rome, defending his dissertation on the topic ‘The Explanatory Psalter of Bruno of Wurzburg in the Church Slavonic translation of Dmitry Gerasimov’. In 1999–2002, he taught Italian in the Department of Romance Languages at Mainz University (Germany). In 2002, he was appointed associate professor of Slavic philology at the University of Sassari (Italy). Since 2005, he has been an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Philology and Russian Language at the University of Macerata (Italy). His areas of research include the following: Slavic studies, the historical grammar of the Russian language, the Church Slavonic language, comparative and historical linguistics, Caucasus Studies and language planning.
Maria N. Virolainen
Doctor of Science (Philology), Professor and Principal Researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the Department of the History of Russian Literature, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia orcid.org/0000-0002-0892-5556
Maria Naumovna Virolainen graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature of Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute in 1975. She obtained her Ph.D. (Candidate of Science degree) in philology in 1981, and in 2005 was conferred the degree of Doctor of Sciences in Russian Literature. Since 2004, she has headed the Pushkin Studies Department of the Institute of Russian Literature. Since 2008, she has taught at the Department of the History of Russian Literature at Saint Petersburg State University. Prof. Virolainen has authored over 390 papers. She has served as the executive editor of a number of anthologies and volumes of the complete edited works of Alexander Pushkin. She is a member of the editorial board of this publication as well as that of the Pushkin Encyclopedia, the Bulletin of the Pushkin Commission, and the journal Russkaya literatura. Her research interests include Russian literature of the 19th – early 20th centuries (literary-historical and cultural aspects and poetics) and Pushkin studies (textual analysis and literary-historical aspects).
