Kirill Zubkov
Candidate of Philology
Professional appointments
2019-2023 — National Research University Higher School of Economics, School of Philological Sciences.
2011-2022 — Institute of Russian Literature of Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House), Department of New Russian Literature.
2016-2019 — St. Petersburg State University, Department of the History of Russian Literature, Assistant Professor.
2011-2016 — St. Petersburg State University, Department of the History of Russian Literature, Assistant Lecturer
Education
2011 — Candidate of Philology (PhD), St. Petersburg State University
2008 — Specialist in Russian Language and Literature, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology
Invited Lectures:
July 2021 — ‘Scholarly Knowledge and Historical Drama in the Russian Empire,’ Jordan Center, NYU (online)
December 2019 — ‘Ivan the Terrible on the Russian Stage,’ Princeton University
December 2019 — ‘Writers and Censors in the Russian Empire,’ The Case of Ivan Goncharov’, Jordan Center, NYU
April 2019 — ‘Nihilism in Russian Literature and Culture,’ Lorand Eotvosh University, Budapest
April 2019 — ‘Alexander Ostrovsky and Russian Theater,’ University of Debrecen
October 2017 — ‘The Nihilists: Political Radicalism and Russian Literature of 19th century,’ Hamburg University
May 2017 — ‘Nihilism and the History of Russian Novel’ Tartu University
Selected Conference Presentations
‘From Bourgeois Tragedy to Popular Melodrama: The Genre System of Alexander Ostrovsky and the Evolution of the Public Sphere in Nineteenth Century Russia,’ ICCEES Congress, International Council for Central and East European Studies, 2021
‘Belinsky and the Social Status of the Critic,’ AATSEEL Conference, AATSEEL, 2021
‘Accessing Reality in the Age of the Reforms: Saltykov-Shchedrin’s Provincial Sketches and Russian Novel of 1860s,’ An Invented Tradition: Russian Realism as Will and Representation (St. Andrews, UK, 2019)
‘Constructing the Russian Nation in the Age of the Great Reforms: Alexander Ostrovsky and the Canon of Russian Drama,’ASEEES Convention (San Francisco, 2019)
‘Novelists, "Realists" and "Anti-Nihilists": the Institution of Literary Criticism and the Polemical Novel of the 1860s-1870s,’ Social Uses of Literature: The Role of Institutions in Russian Literary History (Moscow, HSE, 2015).
‘Between Literary Criticism and Political Journalism: A Prohibited Article on Ostrovsky by Ap. Grigoriev,’ The Lotman Seminar (Estonia, University of Tartu; 2015).
‘The Precipice by Ivan Goncharov as a Novel About the Nihilists,’ Goncharov after "Oblomov" (St. Petersburg, IRLI RAN; 2014).
‘Literary Memoirs and the Construction of a Life Scenario: the Case of Nikolay Uspensky’, The Sixth Lotman Days Conference (Estonia, Tallinn University; 2014).
Refereeing and Reviewing
Russian Literature, Russkaia Literatura, The Journal of St. Petersburg State University, The Herald of Moscow State University
2014–2018, Editor at “The Journal of St. Petersburg State University”
Teaching Experience
2019-2023 — National Research University Higher School of Economics, School of Philological Sciences.
2016-2019 — St. Petersburg State University, Department of the History of Russian Literature, assistant professor.
2011-2016 — St. Petersburg State University, Department of the History of Russian Literature, assistant lecturer
Courses Taught
History of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Criticism
Key Texts of Russian literature
Introduction to Philological Research
Introduction to the Theory of Literature
Reading Academic Texts in English
Literary Institutions in the Russian Empire
History of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature
Russian Novel of Twentieth Century
Russian Poetry of Eighteenth Century (for students from China)
Methodology of Philological Research
Methods of Teaching Literature in Secondary School
The Literary Process in Russia in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Center and Periphery
Russian Literature and Censorship in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
The New People in the Russian Novel of the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Dostoevsky, Leskov, and Others
Supervision of Graduate Research:
Maria Petrovskikh, “The Troubled Seas by Alexey Pisemsky in the History of Russian Literature” (Dissertation for the Candidate of Philology, to be defended in Institute of Russian Literature in 2022)
Ekaterina Vozhik, “The Genre of Feuilleton in the Journals The Contemporary and Notes of the Fatherland in 1850s” (Dissertation for Candidate of Philology, to be defended in Institute of Russian Literatureв in 2024)
Events Organized
International Conference "Nihilism as a Literary Project" (October 20-21, 2021), with Margarita Vaysman
“Literary Institutions and State Power in the Russian Empire of Nineteenth Century” (IRLI RAS, 15‒16.10.2020), with Alina Bodrova and Sergey Guskov
Professional Service
2019-2022 — 19v seminar at Jordan Center, NYU
2019-2022 International Russian Novel Study Group. Co-Convenor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
2017, Attestation Committee at HSE University
2014, Secretary of the Organizing Committee for the Conference “Goncharov after Oblomov" (IRLI RAS)
2012, Secretary of the Organizing Committee for the Conference dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Ivan Goncharov (IRLI RAS)
University Service
2019–2022, Attestation Committee, Higher School of Economics
2014–2018, Research Committee of Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University
2013–2018, Member of the Program Committee of the Annual Student Conference, St. Petersburg State University
2015–2016, Co-organizer of Annual Conference for Professors, St. Petersburg State University
2011–2014, Coordinator of the Society for Student Scholarship, St. Petersburg State University
Languages
Russian (native)
English (fluent)
French (reading)
German (reading)
Church Slavonic (reading)
