AREAS OF INTEREST Feminist Philosophy, History of Women Philosophers, Philosophy of the Soviet Era, Epistemology, Metaphysics
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Philosophy of Art, Russian Religious Philosophy, Philosophical Theology
POSITIONS
October 2021 – September 2023 Academy in Exile Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, Germany
June 2018 – December 2020 Research Fellow, Lab of the Transcendental Philosophy, HSE University (Higher School of Economics), Moscow
September 2007 – August 2020 Lecturer, Docent — Department of Humanities, HSE University
September 2003 – August 2007 Lab Assistant, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Philosophical Department
EDUCATION
November 2003 – October 2007 Cand.Sci. in Cultural Studies & Religious Studies, MSU. Dissertation: “Anthropology of Cinema: Representation of Reality Analysis”
September 1998 – June 2003 Specialist in Philosophy, MSU
VISITING POSITIONS/FELLOWSHIPS
September 2021 Visiting Fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Wien
April-July 2012, April 2014 University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy, Academic Visitor
October 2013 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Visiting Fellow
August 2009 – February 2010 Harvard University (USA), Fulbright Visiting Scholar, project “Metaphysics of Art: Analytical Philosophy & American Abstractionism”
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
“The Freedom for Philosopher: Scholarship and Activism of Lina Tumanova” (1936-1985) (in progress)
“Liberated Nothingness: Neoplatonic References of Suprematism” (in progress)
“No Women’s Land: New Ethics, Traditionalism and Philosophy of War” (in progress)
„Radiation of Divine Light: Byzantine meanings of Larionov’s abstractionism” (submitted to a peer reviewed journal)
“Iconic Revolution: The Asceticism of ‘Old Icons’ and the Avant-Garde”, In: What is to Be Done? Art Practice, Theory and Criticism in Russia during the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Ludmila Piters-Hofmann and Isabel Wünsche. Berlin: Logos Verlag (in press)
“The Dazzling Darkness of ‘Black Square’: Malevich’s Religious Metaphysics”. In Religion and Secular Modernity in Russian Christianity, Judaism, and Atheism. Ed. by Ana Siljak. Cornell University Press (forthcoming, 2024)
“Defining Nothingness: Kazimir Malevich and Religious Renaissance”, Studies in East European Thought (2023)
“Sofya Yanovskaya in Defence of Abstractions: Between Soviet Ideology and Bourgeois Idealism”. In: Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism. Ed. by Vesa Oittinen and Elina Viljanen. Routledge, 2022
AWARDS
Educational Innovations Award 2018, “Philosophy for the School of Design”
Best Lecturer of 2012 academic year
MEMBERSHIPS
The Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought (NU RPRT Research Initiative)
The Russian Art and Culture Group