Tatiana Viktoroff

Victoroff

DSc in Philology,

Associate Professor (HDR) at the University of Strasbourg (French Literature, General and Comparative Literary Studies)

Education: 

Graduated from Tyumen State University.

PhD thesis: 

Typology of the Mystery Genre in English and Russian Dramaturgy of the First Half of the Twentieth Century: C. Williams, Dorothy Sayers, K. Fry and E.Y. Kuzmina-Karavaeva (1998)

DSc Thesis:

Le Théâtre en Quête d’Une Synthèse des Arts: Recherches Comparatistes sur la Scène Franco-Russe et la Littérature Européenne

Research interests: 

Russian Russian medieval theater, mystery genre, Franco-Russian cultural ties, literature of Russian emigration, comparative studies.

Professional Service:

  • Director of the Institute of Comparative Studies at the University of Strasbourg and the Research Group “Europe des Lettres” (UR 1337 Configurations Littéraires);
  • Director of the Master’s Course in French, Francophone and Comparative Literature;
  • Literary Director of the Paris publishing house YMCA-Press
  • Work for Research Centers: ITI (Institut Thématique Interdisciplinaire) LETHICA, université de Strasbourg. Responsable: Anthony Mangeon, professeur de Littératures Francophones; CERCLE, université de Lorraine. Responsable: Antoine Nivière, prof. en Littérature Russe.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Comparative and Slavic literary and Art History Journals: Bibliothèque des études comparatistes (BEL); Modernités russes (Université de Lyon); Codex manuscriptus, IMLI-RAN (Institut de Littérature Mondiale, Académie des Sciences de Russie (Moscou); Tyumen State University Herald
  • Editor-in-Chief of Vestnik RSHD (Paris — New York — Moscow)
  • Member of the commission for awarding the prize “The Best Thesis of the Year in the Field of Comparative Literature” (SFLGC: Association of French Comparative Scholars)

 

Scientific publications — more than 200 scientific publications.

Selected publications

Books (author, editor-compiler)

  • Boris de Schloezer. Scriabine. Édition Établie et Commentée par Tatiana Victoroff. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024. 344 p. (Série “Comprendre la Musique”, Collection “Aestetitica”)
  • Marina Tsvetaieva et l’Europe. Actes du Colloque International au Collège Doctoral Européen de Strasbourg, 13–15 Décembre 2018. [S. l.]: Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 2021. 317 p.
  • Revue d’Études Proustiennes. Marcel Proust et Mikhail Bakhtine: Regards Croisés. Vol. 13. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2021. 335 p.
  • Bilingual Anthology of Russian Poetry of the Beginning of the XXI Century. (Introduction, choice of Texts by Tatiana Victoroff; translations by Jean-Louis Backès, Hélène Henry, Véronique Lossky, Jean-Baptiste Para, Christine Zeytounian), Paris, YMCA-Press, 2020. 333 p. 
  • The Lyre and the Weapons. Poets at War: Péguy, Stadler, Owen, etc. Ed. by Julien Collonges and Tatiana Victoroff. Paris, Classics Garnier, 2020. 
  • “The Gulag Archipelago”: the Story of a Literary Earthquake. Bilingual Catalog of the Exhibition at the Solzhenitsyn Cultural Center. Paris, Ymca-Press, 2018. 100 p.
  • The Dramatic Work of Michel Vinaver: Between France, America and Russia. Moscow, Russkii put' Publ., 2018. 384 p.
  • Anna Akhmatova and European Poetry. Brussels, Peter Lang, 2016. 
  • Rebirths of the Mystery in Europe, Late Nineteenth – Early Twenty-first Century. What is the Mystery for Modernity? Strasbourg, PUS Foundation, 2015.
  • The Death of the Poets: Péguy, Stadler, Owen. Strasbourg, National Library of Strasbourg, 2014.

Selected Essays

  • Poetry of Translation: I.A. Bunin in Dialogue with Leconte de Lisle and the Parnassians. I.A. Bunin's Early Work (1883–1902): Poetics, Textual Criticism, Commentary, ex. ed. S.N. Morozov; ed. A.V. Bakuntsev, T.M. Dviniatina, E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2024, pp. 204‒287. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0761-8-204-287
  • “Bernard de Clairvaux, Contemporain Paradoxal des Russes: Lectures des Sermons sur le Cantique.” La Plume et la Grâce. Littérature et Spiritualité du Moyen Âge au XXIe Siècle. Mélanges en l’Honneur de Dominique Millet-Gérard. Paris, Honoré Champion, 2024, pp. 719–737.
  • “Feodor Chaliapine et Boris Grigoriev: Dialogue de Deux Génies Impulsifs, Colloque Chaliapine, un Chanteur au Croisement des Arts (Sorbonne Université), 19–20 Octobre 2023.” La Revue Russe, no. 62, 2024. pp. 145–166.
  • “La Beauté Hantera le Monde. Anges et Démons Dostoïevskiens dans La Naissance d’un Assassin de Lászlo Krasznahorkai.” Spectres de Dostoïevski. Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024, pp. 145–154. (Collection “Perspectives Comparatistes”)
  • “L’exil Comme l’Antithèse de la Vie: Nabokov au Sein de l’Émigration Russe.” Cahiers de l’Herne, Numéro Spécial sur Vladimir Nabokov, 2023. pp. 59–62.
  • “Un Point de Vue Contemporain sur la Leçon des Ecrivains Russes. Entretien avec Alexeï Varlamov par Tatiana Victoroff.” Revue Recherches & Travaux. no. 102, 2023. pp. 70–79.
  • “Extraits de la Correspondance Vladimir Nabokov — Mstislav Doboujinsky.” Cahiers de l’Herne, Numéro Spécial sur Vladimir Nabokov, 2023. pp. 67–69.
  • “Russie.” Dictionnaire du Moyen Age Imaginaire. Le Médiévalisme, Hier et Aujourd’hui. [S. l.], Vendémiaire, 2022. pp. 382–387.
  • “L’Europe — Sodome? Le Dialogue des Merejkovski avec Proust dans Le Mystère de l’Occident: Atlantide — Europe.” Slavica Occitania, numéro spéciale sur “Les Mérejkovski et l’Europe.” no. 54, 2022. pp. 51–68.
  • “Visages de Russie: Boris Grigoriev et Ivan Bounine, Dialogue du Peintre et de l’Écrivain.” Slavica Occitania, no. 53, 2021. pp. 167–191.
  • “Partir et Laisser le Monde Inchangé? l’Attila de Zamiatine Face à l’Histoire.” Eugène Zamiatine. Attila. [S. l.], Editions Vibration, 2021. pp. 7–25.
  • “Naissance d’une Revue Comparatiste Russe: Imagiologie et Comparatisme.” Revue de Littérature Comparée, Numéro Spécial Consacré aux “Revues comparatistes du monde.” no. 4, 2021. pp. 511–513.
  • Trans-mitting/ferring Bounine: “The Mad Artist” Translated by Maurice Parijanine. Ivan Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work. Ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov; Eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 769–843. https://doi.org/10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-769-843 
  • “Spiritualization of Matter”: Ivan Bunin in French Literary Criticism and in Translations by Boris Schloezer. Ivan Bunin and His Time: Context of Life — History of Work. Ex. eds. T.M. Dvinyatina and S.N. Morozov; Eds. A.V. Bakuntsev and E.R. Ponomarev. Moscow, IWL RAS Publ., 2021, pp. 693–717. https://doi.org/10.22455/AB-978-5-9208-0675-8-693-741
  • “Paris, Arène Culturelle et Intellectuelle de la Russie.” Le Tournant des Rêves. Traduire en Français en 1936. Tours, Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2021. pp. 141–174. (Collection “Traductions dans l’Histoire”)
  • “‘I Have Woven a Wide Veil for Them’: Anna Akhmatova and Mother Maria (Skobtsova).” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, no. 209, 2018, pp. 137–
  • “Religious Free Creativity": the Historiosophy of Mother Mary and the ‘Orthodox Cause’ on the Threshold of the Third Millennium.” The Spiritual Heritage of Mother Mary (Skobtsova): The Present and Future of the Church: Materials of the International Theological Conference (Moscow — Moscow region, December 27, 2011). Tver, Spasskoe, Sviato-Mariinskoe i Bogoliubskoe malye pravoslavnye bratstva Publ., 2016. pp. 12–
  • “Exhibition and Conference "Michel Vinaver's Creativity: Between France, America and Russia”. Yearbook of Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad,.no. 6, 2016, pp. 745– (Co-authored with S.N. Dubrovina).
  • ‘No, It's Not a Distance, but a New Closeness to Everyone’: Mother Maria about Trips to the Baltic States (1932).” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, no, 201, 2013, pp. 44–
  • “‘The Land of Violence and Beautiful Eyes’: Louis Aragon on a Visit to the Soviet Urals.” Modern History of Russia, no. 3, 2012, pp. 157–167
  • “Return to the Origins of the Movement: the Relevance of the Legacy of Fr. Sergiy Bulgakov. RSHD Congress in Loisy.” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, 199, 2012, pp. 224–227.
  • “In Search of a Christian Aeschylus: G.P. Fedotov on the Christian Tragedy in Europe.” Bulletin of the Russian Christian Movement, no. 199, 2012, pp. 64–
  • “‘Religious and Free Creativity’: the Historiosophy of Mother Mary and the ‘Orthodox Cause’ on the Threshold of the Third Millennium: A Report on the Evening of the Memory of Mother Mary in the Transfiguration Brotherhood.” Bulletin of the Russian Christian movement, no. 200, 2012, pp. 120–
  • “Pilgrimage to Ravensbruck.” Bulletin of the Russian Orthodox Church, no. 193, 2008. P. 300.
  • “‘Leader, Friend, Father’: Mother Maria (Skobtsova) and Prot. Sergiy (Bulgakov).” N. Bulgakov: Religious and Philosophical Path: International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 130th Anniversary of his Birth, March 5-7, 2001. Moscow, Russkii put' Publ., 2003, pp. 312–330.

Scopus / Web of Science Publications

  • “Mystery Tradition in M. Prishvin’s Novel The Worldly Cup.” Quaestio Rossica, vol. 12, no. 2, 2024. pp. 492–505.
  • “I Will Return / Come Back to you Unrecognized”: the Fate of Poetry of Mother Maria in Post Soviet Russia and in France.” Studia Litterarum, vol. 3, no 2, 2018, pp. 196–229. In Russ.