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Elena VolkovaProfessor of the Department of Aesthetics, Doctor of Philosophy
Date of Birth: 21.06.1927
Country:  Belarus |
Content:
- Early Life and Education
- Academic Career
- Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (1978)
- Professorship and Recognition
- Published Works
- Research Interests
Early Life and Education
Elena Vasilievna Volkova was born on June 21, 1927, in Gorki, Vitebsk Oblast. In 1949, she graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.
Academic Career
Candidate of Philological Sciences (1965)In 1965, Volkova defended her candidate dissertation on the topic of "The Artistic Prose of V. Kaverin." Her research explored the content forms found in Kaverin's prose works and analyzed his creative and artistic-critical contacts with OPOYAZ and the "Serapion Brothers" literary group.
Doctor of Philosophical Sciences (1978)
In 1978, Volkova defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic of "Philosophical and Aesthetic Analysis of a Work of Art." This dissertation examined the sociocultural and aesthetic existence of artworks, traditional and new concepts in their study, the language of art, and the need for collaboration between philosophical aesthetics and general theoretical art studies and specific art sciences.
Professorship and Recognition
In 1980, Volkova became a professor in the Department of Aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. In 1989, she was awarded a diploma from an All-Union competition for her pamphlet "The Viewer and the Museum." The following year, she received an award for the best work of popular science literature.
Published Works
In 1998, Volkova published her book "The Tragic Paradox of Varlam Shalamov," which, according to I. P. Sirotinskaya, was a brilliant work "for its profound understanding of Shalamov's texts."
Research Interests
Volkova's research interests included:History of Russian and German aesthetics of the 19th-20th centuries
Problems of art in the system of artistic culture
Interactions between classic and non-classic in 20th-century artistic and theoretical explorations
