Olga Simonova
PhD (Literary Studies)
olga.simonova@utu.fi ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4802-7750 |
Russian literature of the beginning of the 20th century, Mass literature, World War I, Russian Civil War, Women magazines, Children literature
Women in the World War I and the Russian Civil War: Images in Memoirs and Fiction
I am a philologist who works on early-20th-century Russian literature, with a special focus on gender studies and mass literature. I graduated in 2005 from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State University for the Humanities. My specialization was History, Literature and Culture of Russia and France. From 2005 to 2008, I was a postgraduate student at the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature (IWL) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 2008, I defended my thesis “Mass literature in the Structure of Russian Women’s Magazines of the 1910s”.
Furthermore, I studied at the French University College of Moscow, where I received the French diploma “Master 1” in History in 2007.
In recent years, my academic activity has been connected with the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature (Moscow). In 2011, I began to work as a Senior Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts of the IWL. I wrote scholarly articles, participated in conferences, was one of the organizers of conferences at the IWL, and I was a coeditor of books published by the IWL.
In my research, I focus on the way the war theme is connected with women images in fictional and non-fictional texts. I study strategies of constructing female images in fiction and in ego-documents about war. The study works with texts of Russian literature about the World War I and the Russian Civil War, written by both men and women: the well-known Soviet authors Boris Lavrenev, Boris Pilnyak, Pavel Blyakhin, Eduard Bagritsky; the “forgotten” writers Sofia Fedorchenko, Lusia Argutinskaya. Moreover, I look at memoirs by Anna Saksaganskaya, Natalia Sukhogorskaya, and by nameless Sisters of Mercy. The research methodology is based on methods in gender studies and literary analysis of texts. I also work with methods from history and memory studies.
- Le personnage de la Finlandaise dans le récit Parmi les falaises (1924) de Maria Boretskaïa, au prisme de la tradition littéraire (2024)
- Les cahiers de Framespa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Unknown Review by B. M. Runt on the Production of A. N. Tolstoy’s Play Rapists at the Maly Theatre (2024) Alexey Tolstoy: Dialogues with Time. Issue 4 Simonova, Olga
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - V.A. Shchegoleva’s Diary of 1915 (2024) Codex manuscriptus, issue 3. Drovaleva, Natalia A.; Simonova, Olga A.
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - Women Soldiers in the Year of the October Revolution: Images in Fiction
Женщины-солдаты в год Октябрьской революции: образы в художественной литературе (2024)- Scando-Slavica
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - The Image of the Atamansha in the Boris Lavrenev`s Novel ‘The Wind’ (1924): Gender Aspect and Razin`s Plot (2023)
- Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur -Bulletin of Slavic Cultures
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Book review: В. Б. Зусева-Озкан. Дева-воительница в литературе русского модернизма: образ, мотивы, сюжеты. М.: Индрик, 2021. ISBN 978-5-91674-629-7. (2022)
- Voprosy Literatury
(B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Воспоминания Е.А. Гиляровой о работе цензором и редактором (2022)
- Literaturnyj fakt
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Женский нарратив о Гражданской войне: особенности и критерии классификации (2022) ПРОШЛОЕ, ПАМЯТЬ, НАРРАТИВ: ГЕНДЕРНОЕ ИЗМЕРЕНИЕ ПОВСЕДНЕВНОСТИ Simonova Olga
(B3 Vertaisarvioimaton artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Женщина модерна: Гендер в русской культуре 1890–1930 годов: Коллективная монография (2022) Кузнецова Е. В., Симонова О. А., Чечнёв Я. Д., Каплун М. В., Зусева-Озка В. Б.
(C2 Toimitustyö tieteelliselle kokoomateokselle) - Николай Белоцветов. Книга о Русском Граале. Из неопубликованного (2022) Moskovskaya Daria S., Obolenska Diana, Kuznetsova Olga, Petrova Nataliya, Simonova Olga, Fedorov Maksim
(C2 Toimitustyö tieteelliselle kokoomateokselle) - ОБРАЗ АТАМАНШИ МАРУСИ В ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ 1920-1930-Х ГОДОВ (2022) ЖЕНЩИНА МОДЕРНА: ГЕНДЕР В РУССКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЕ 1890-Х - 1930-Х ГОДОВ Simonova Olga
(A3 Vertaisarvioitu kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa) - A CIVIL WAR HEROINE LIUDMILA MOKIEVSKAYA-ZUBOK: HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND FICTIONAL CHARACTER (2021)
- Studia Litterarum (Literaturnye issledovaniâ)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - GIRLS IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE ABOUT THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR IN THE 1920S (CASE OF THE NOVELLA “LITTLE RED DEVILS” BY PAVEL BLYAKHIN) (2021)
- Detskie Chtenia
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Razin's motif of the Princess's drowning in the literature about the Russian Civil war (“Princess” by Andrey Sobol and “Povolniki” by Alexander Yakovlev) Разинский мотив утопления княжны в литературе о Гражданской войне («Княжна» А. М. Соболя и «Повольники» А. С. Яковлева) (2021)
- Sibirskij Filologicheskij Zhurnal
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - Red Nurses in the Russian Civil War: Ideology and Self-Presentation (2021)
- Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta (Tomsk State University Journal)
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - BUILDING OF AN AVERAGE WOMAN IMAGE IN MEMOIRS ON MAKHNOVSHCHINA (2020)
- Vestnik Slavianskikh Kultur -Bulletin of Slavic Cultures
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä ) - On the Possible End of A.A. Saksaganskaya's Memoirs about the Civil War (2019)
- Novyi Filologicheskii Vestnik
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )