Maya Kucherskaya
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Maya Alexandrovna Kucherskaya | |
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| Add a Photo Kucherskaya speaking at the "Red Square" literary festival, Moscow 2018 | |
| Born | May 2, 1970 Moscow, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | USSR, Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (1997), UCLA (1999) |
Maya Alexandrovna Kucherskaya (Russian: Ма́йя Алекса́ндровна Куче́рская; born May 2, 1970 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian fiction writer, columnist, critic and pedagogue.
She has earned degrees in Philology and Russian Literature (Moscow State University, 1997), as well as a PhD in Slavic Languages&Literatures (UCLA, 1999). She is a professor of Philology and head of the School of Literary Excellence at the National Research University, as well as the recipient of multiple awards, such as the "Big Book Award" (2021)[1], and "Molodaya Gvardia" (2006).[2] She has earned the title of "Best Teacher" multiple times at HSE.[3]
Her academic interests include Russian popular culture, 20th-century and contemporary prose, the writer Nikolai Leskov, and the mythology of mass consciousness.[3]
Biography
Maya Kucherskaya was born in the USSR in 1970. She graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1992, going on to defend her 1997 thesis, titled "Russian Yuletide Story and the Problem of the Canon in Modern Literature", earning a degree in Russian Literature.[3] From 1992 to 1995, she studied in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in UCLA, and in 1999, she defended her dissertation, titled "Grand Duke Constantine Romanov in Russian Cultural Mythology".[4]
She was a columnist from 2005 to 2015 for the newspaper "Vedomosti (Ведомости)."[5]
In 2011, she became an associate professor in the School of Philological Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, where she also supervises the creative writing program. She is currently tenured at HSE, where her supervisor is professor Kostinantin Polivanov.[3]
Work
Dr. Kucherskaya has published multiple Russian-language bestsellers, including "Modern Patericon" (2005), and a reworking of her doctoral thesis, titled "The Rain God" (2006).[6]
In 2014, she took part in a recording of theatrical readings of "Karinena", and published a collection of short stories titled "Lamentations for the Departed Art Teacher". In an interview with Gazeta, she said about the series, “it turned out to be a strange family, as if all these texts were from the same mother, but from different fathers. An absurdist father, an avant-garde father, a harsh realist father, a faceless father who ran away after the first date, and the child turned out to be raised by a single mother."[7]
In 2016, she published an article in the journal The Russian Review, titled "Literary Borrowing in the Work of N. S. Leskov. She then published a biography of Leskov in 2021.[6]
Bibliography
- Kucherskaya, M.A. Modern Patericon: Readings for the Despondent (2005)[8]
- Kucherskaya, M.A. The Rain God ("Бог дождя"), 2007.[9]
- Kucherskaya, M.A. Leskov, a Missed Genius. "Молодая гвардия", 2021.[9]
- Kucherksaya, M.A. "Literary Borrowing in the Work of N. S. Leskov", The Russian Review (2016).[10]
References
- ↑ КОРОБКОВА, Евгения (2021-12-11). "Лауреат "Большой книги" Майя Кучерская: Оказавшись перед Лесковым, я бы спросила, за что он так поступил со своим сыном". kp.ru (in русский). Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ↑ "Maya KUCHERSKAYA | The International Writing Program". iwp.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Maya A. Kucherskaya". www.hse.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich Romanov in Russian cultural mythology - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ "Майя Кучерская". Ведомости (in русский). Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "ELKOST International literary agency - Books". www.elkost.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ↑ "«Это не про православие, это про нас»". Газета.Ru (in русский). Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ "Современный патерик. Чтение для впавших в уныние (М. А. Кучерская) | МногоСлов.рф". mnogoslovs.ru. Retrieved 2022-05-11.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "ELKOST International literary agency - Nikolai Leskov: The Overlooked Genius, a biography by Maya Kuzherskaya (2021)". www.elkost.com. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ↑ KUCHERSKAYA, MAYA (2016). "Literary Borrowing in the Work of N. S. Leskov: A Case Study of "The Spendthrift"". The Russian Review. 75 (1): 67–85. ISSN 0036-0341.
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