Department staff

1. Alexander Vaschenko (1947-2013)

Head of Department, Head of the Cultural Studies Programme

PhD in Philology, Professor

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

American studies, Canadian studies, comparative mythology and culture, folklore, comparative cultural studies

2. Natalia Kartasheva

Acting Head of Department

PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor

Graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University

Research interests:

Theory and sociology of culture, cultural and philosophical issues of temporality, ethnocultural studies, the East in Russian culture, historical models of cross-cultural interaction, teaching theory in higher education, research methodology

e-mail: [email protected]

3. Irina Anastasyeva

PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

Russian literature in the first half of the 20th century, 19th-century Russian literature, Russian culture abroad (20th century), history and theory of literature, literary concepts of culture, game and culture

e-mail: [email protected]

4. Inna Vasilyeva

PhD in Cultural Studies, Senior Lecturer

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

History of Russian culture and literature (18th-20th cent.), European culture (17th-19th cent.), cultural studies, Medieval Russian literature, Russian studies for international students

e-mail: [email protected]

5. Andrey Davydov

PhD student, Lecturer

Graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

History of ethnic relations in Britain and the USA, racial theories in interwar Britain and the USA, race in transnational contexts, ethnicity and culture, British studies, American studies

e-mail: [email protected]

6. Konstantin Dudakov-Kashuro

PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor

Graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Colorado State University, Denver (USA)

Research interests:

Philosophy of culture, aesthetics and philosophy of 20th-century art, theory and history of modernism and the avant-garde, contemporary art theory

e-mail: [email protected]

7. Oleg Komkov

PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor

Graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

History and theory of culture, theory of aesthetics, history and theory of literature, philosophical and theological anthropology, iconology, history of Western and Russian philosophy, philosophical and worldview traditions of Ancient and Eastern cultures, history and theory of music

e-mail: [email protected]

8. Oleg Kornilov

PhD in Philology, PhD in Cultural Studies, Professor

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

Ethnolinguistic analysis of language phenomena (languages: Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Quechua), phraseosemantics, typological differences of cultures, linguistic representations of national mentality

e-mail: [email protected]

9. Margarita Loyevskaya

PhD in Cultural Studies, Professor

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

Historical and modern hagiography, history and modern affairs of Solovetsky Islands, repressions and neomartyrs in Russia, Medieval Russian culture and art, Old Believer works, church history (schisms)

e-mail: [email protected]

10. Irina Mokletsova

PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

History of Russian culture, cultural studies, traditional culture, folklore, Medieval Russian literature, Russian literature and travel literature (18th and 19th cent.), Russian culture for international students

e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

11. Julia Ovchinnikova (née Barkova)

PhD in Cultural Studies, Associate Professor

Graduated from Russian State University of Tourism and Services Studies

Research interests:

Cultural studies, traditional musical culture across the world, ethnomusicology, ethno-organology, folklore, comparative cultural studies, Celtic studies, American studies, pedagogy

e-mail: [email protected]

12. Konstantin Romanov

PhD in Cultural Studies, Lecturer

Graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

Cultural studies, American studies, history and culture of Canada, multiculturalism, traditional cultures

e-mail: [email protected]

13. Ludmila Chashkina

Administrator

Graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research interests:

Everyday life studies, the doll as a cultural phenomenon, history of design