Ekaterina Dmitrieva

Ekaterina Yevgenyevna Dmitrieva is a Russian literary scholar, Doctor of Sciences, professor, and educator. She is a specialist in 19th-century Russian literature, the history and theory of the comparative method and cultural transfer, and the literature and culture of the European Baroque and Romanticism. She is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and serves on the editorial boards of journals and a book series. She is the author of about 270 scholarly works, including 9 monographs, as well as a number of translations from French.

She was born into the family of the literary scholar Yevgeny Maimin. She graduated from the Pskov Pedagogical Institute, worked as a freelance guide in the Pushkin State Reserve (Mikhaylovskoye), and taught German and French in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Pskov State Pedagogical Institute. Since 1983, she has been a postgraduate student in the Department of Russian Literature at the V. I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute; in 1986, she defended her candidate of philological sciences dissertation on “The Epistolary Genre in the Work of A. S. Pushkin,” and worked as an assistant in the Department of Russian Literature at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.

Since 1989, Ekaterina Dmitrieva has been a leading research fellow and head of the Department of Russian Classical Literature at the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature. She worked in the group preparing the academic Complete Works and Letters of N. V. Gogol. In 2011, she defended her doctoral dissertation, “N. V. Gogol in the Western European Context: Between Languages and Cultures.” Her research interests include the history and theory of the comparative method and cultural transfer; the literature and culture of the European Baroque and Romanticism; and 19th-century Russian literature. She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Russian Literature and Russian Speech, the Pushkin Commission Yearbook, as well as the book series Kulturtransfer und Kulturelle Identitaet (published by Wilhelm Fink, Munich).

In different years, she has been a professor in the Department of Comparative History of Literatures at the Russian State University for the Humanities, and secretary of the International Master