Mariya Arkadevna Litovskaya, ''

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

'' Yeremeyeva (russian: Мария Аркадьевна Литовская; b. October 25, 1958) is a Soviet and Russian

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

literary critic Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. Th ...

, Professor of the

Ural Federal University la, Cogitare, agere, consequi! , mottoeng = ''Think, act, achieve!'' , established = 1920 (established), 2011 (integrated) , closed = , type = Public , affiliation = , endowment = RU ...

, one of the leading scholars at the Institute of History and Archaeology under the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

(Ural Department). She is a specialist in the fields of the 20th century

Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were c ...

, sociology of literature and education, Ural literature.

Career

She was born in Sverdlovsk in the teachers' family, graduated from the philological department of the Ural Federal University in 1980. In 1983 she defended her

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. Starting from that year Litovskaya worked for the University at the Soviet Literature Department. Her doctoral dissertation ''Social and artistic phenomenon of

Valentin Kataev Valentin Petrovich Kataev (russian: Валенти́н Петро́вич Ката́ев; also spelled Katayev or Kataiev; – 12 April 1986) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing ...

'' ( rus, Социохудожественный феномен В. П. Катаева, Sotsiokhudozhestvennyj fenomen V. P. Kataeva, links=no) was defended in 2000. From 1998 to 2007 she headed the History Department of the Institute of History and Archaeology (the

, Ural Department).

Selected publications

* '' C. De Maegd-Soëp. Yury Trifonov and the drama of Russian intelligentsia'' ( rus, Де Магд-Соэр К. Юрий Трифонов и драма русской интеллигенции, De Magd-Sojer K. Jurij Trifonov i drama russkoj intelligencii, links=no), 1997 (translation) * ''The phoenix sings before the sun. Valentin Kataev's phenomenon'' ( rus, Феникс поет перед солнцем. Феномен Валентина Катаева, Feniks poet pered solncem. Fenomen Valentina Kataeva, links=no), 1999 * ''The gender relations and gender policy at higher education institution: a collection of articles'' ( rus, Гендерные отношения и гендерная политика в вузе: Сб. статей, Gendernye otnoshenija i gendernaja politika v vuze: Sb. statej, links=no), 2003 * ''Bazhov encyclopaedia'' ( rus, Бажовская энциклопедия, Bazhovskaja entsiklopedija, links=no), 2007

References

1958 births Academic staff of Ural Federal University Soviet philologists 20th-century philologists Russian philologists Women philologists Women linguists Russian literary historians Russian women historians Russian literary critics Russian women literary critics Soviet literary historians Pavel Bazhov Prize recipients Living people Women literary historians {{Russia-academic-bio-stub