Andrey F. Kofman

 

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Doctor Habil.,

Head of the Department of European and American Literature of the Modern Time, Deputy Director of IWL RAS

Education

Graduated from the Chair of Roman and German Philology, Philology Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1976; graduate studies at the Chair of Foreign Literature, Philology Department, Moscow State University: 1976–1979

 PhD thesis

Artistic Specificity of Songs and Lyric Genres in Mexican Folklore (1982)

Dsc (Habil.) thesis

Southern American Literary Imago Mundi (1999)

Research interests: Folklore, literature, history of South America, literary studies, art history

 

Professional Service

Member of the Committee for the Complex Study of the Culture of Pyrenean Peninsula and South America

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Studia Letterarum

Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Latinskaya Amerika

Executive editor in charge of Southern American section of the journal Literatura Dvuh Amerik

 

Awards

Winner of the Russian National Award “Cherished Dream” in children’s literature (2006) for the novel Tierra Adelante! (Moscow, 2003)

Best author of 2004 for the series of essays The Knights of the New World. Awarded by the Institute of Latin America and the Editorial Board of the journal Latinskaya Amerika

Award of the journal Inostrannaya Literatura for the essay on Octavio Paz (1991)

 

Academic publications — over 186, including 6 monographs.

Selected publications

Monographs

  • Spanish Conquistador. From Text to the Reconstruction of the Personality Type. Moscow: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature Press, 2016. In Russ.
  • Three Chronicles of the Conquest of America. St. Petersburg: Symposium, 2009. In Russ.
  • Cortés and His Captains. Moscow: Pan-Press, In Russ.
  • Knights of the New World. Moscow: Pan-Press, 2006 (reprint., 2007). In Russ.
  • The America of Unfulfilled Wonders. Moscow: Profobrazovanie Publ., 2001. In Russ.
  • Three Chronicles of the Conquest of America. Moscow: Nasledie Publ., 1997. In Russ.
  • Southern American Literary Imago Mundi. Moscow: Nasledie Publ., 1997. In Russ.

Selected essays

  • “Literary Trends: For the Project Dictionary of Literary Trends in the Twentieth Century Europe and America.” Studia Letterarum. 2016, no 1– P. 26–46. In Russ.
  • “The Sources of Magic Realism in Latin American Literature.” Latinskaya Amerika. 2015, no 1. P. 90– In Russ.
  • “Las fuentes del realismo mágico en la literatura latinoamericana.” La Colmena. México. Toluca. 2015. № 85. Enero-marzo. P. 9– (In Spanish)
  • “Harlem Renaissance” in The History of US Literature. Ekaterina Stetsenko et al. Moscow: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature Press, 2013. P. 157–228 (in Russian).
  • “Time and Space in Chekhov’s Plays Seagull, Three Sisters, and Cherry Orchard.” Literatura i Iskusstvo. № 5. P. 516–524. In Russ.
  • “La copla española en América Latina.” La Colmena. México. 2013. № 79. Julio-septiembre. P. 65–78 (in Spanish).
  • “The Primitivist Aspect of Avant-Garde Movement” in Avant-Garde in the Twentieth Century Culture. 1900–19 Theory. History. Poetics. Ed. Yuri N. Girin. Moscow: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature Press, 2010. P. 490–545. In Russ.
  • “El milagro en la conquista.” La Colmena. México. 2006. Julio-agosto, 2006. P. 54–69. In Spanish.
  • “La conquista y la literatura latinoamericana.” La Colmena. México. 2006. № 50. Abril-junio 2006. P. 74–81. In Spanish.
  • “El conquistador español y el espacio latinoamericano.” Cuadernos Americanos. México. Vol. 4, no 100. Julio-Agosto, 2003. P. 103–112. In Spanish.
  • “El problema de la síntesis cultural en Latinoamérica.” México. Toluca. 2003, no 5. Julio-Diciémbre, 2003. P. 2–8. In Spanish.
  • “Los estereotipos artísticos y la autoformación de la literatura latinoamericana.” Cuadernos americanos. México. 2001, vol. 6, no 90. Noviembre-Diciémbre. P. 119– In Spanish.
  • “Peculiaridades de la formación de la imago mundi en la conciencia artística latinoamericana.” La Colmena. México. Universidad de Toluca. Octubre-Diciémbre, no P. 30–36. In Spanish
  • “El problema del realismo mágico en la literatura latinoamericana.” Cuadernos Americanos, vol. 4, no 82. Julio-Agosto. P. 63– In Spanish.
  • “Utopia of Octavio Paz.” Inostrannaya literature. 1991, no 1. P. 236– In Russ.
  • “On the Specificity of Contemporary Southern American Novel.” Voprosy literatury. 1984, no P. 79–95. In Russ.

 

 

International teaching experience

Lecture course “Literary Categories as Applied to Literary Texts” for graduate students of the Slavic Department, São-Paulo University (Brazil).

Lecture course “Typological Traits of Southern American Culture” at the University of Toluca, Toluca, Mexico.

Lecture course “Time and Space in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature” for graduate students of the Slavic Department, São-Paulo University (Brazil).

Lecture course “Literary Imago Mundi in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature” for graduate students of the Slavic Department, São-Paulo University (Brazil).

Lectures on Southern American Culture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).