Tatyana Kasatkina

'Tatyana Aleksandrovna Kasatkina (Russian: Татьяна Александровна Касаткина; born in Moscow, Russia, 1963) is a philosopher, philologist, culture expert, religious scholar and writer. She is an expert in the field of theory of culture, theory of literature, philosophy, religious studies, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Russian literature of the 19th-21st centuries. She is a Doctor of Phililogy (the highest doctoral degree that has no equivalents in English speaking countries), president of the Research Committee for Dostoyevsky's Artistic Heritage within the Scientific Council for the History of World Culture, RAS. T. A. Kasatkina is a member of the International society of F. M. Dostoevsky (International Dostoevsky Society). and of the management Board of the Russian society of F. M. Dostoevsky. She is also a member of a number of editorial boards: that of the Almanac «Dostoevsky and World Culture», the Yearbook «Dostoevsky and the Present», and «Dostoevsky Monograph». T.A. Kasatkina is the author of 6 books, novella «The Copy», textbooks for the course «Religion, Culture, Art» (first issue), more than 300 scientific articles. She has edited a number of collective monographs of Russian and foreign researchers.

Biography

• Graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1986.
• After completing her post-graduate course at the Gorky Institute of World Literature (IMLI; Russian ИМЛИ) T.A. Kasatkina was admitted to the Department of Literary Theory as a research assistant and after obtaining her Candidate of Sciences degree (equivalent of a Ph.D.) in 1992, she was promoted to a senior researcher. From 1991 to 1996 she was a Scientific Secretary of the Scientific Council for the Study of Literature in the Context of the Studies of Culture headed by А.V. Mikhaylov.
• Since 1996 she has been а regular contributor to the magazine Novy Mir (Russian Но́вый Ми́р, New World)
• In 2000 T.A. Kasatkina was awarded a Doctor of Sciences Degree (Doktor nauk is the highest academic degree having no equivalents in English-speaking countries).Since then she has been working as a leading researcher in the Gorky Institute of World Literature.
• In 2001 T.A. Kasatkina founded and headed the Research Committee for Dostoyevsky's Artistic Heritage within the Scientific Council for the History of World Culture, RAS).
• From 2001 to 2007 she worked as a professor at the Department of the History of World Culture at The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (optional course «Religion, Culture, Art»)
• In 2005—2011 she worked as a professor at the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute (special workshop «Continuity in the individual style of the writer: F.M. Dostoevsky's works»; special course «Religion and Literature»)
• Since 2010 she has been Head of the Department of Literary Theory at the Gorky Institute of World Literature.

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Research Work

Tatyana Kasatkina is one of the most prominent Russian specialists in the field of Dostoyevsky studies. A number of her research works were published not only in Russia but also in Great Britain, the USA, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Japan, China, etc. She prepared for publication a new collection of works by F.M. Dostoyevsky, which is organized in a chronological order. Each volume contains not only Dostoyevsky's works of a respective period of his life but also letters and memoirs of his contemporaries that are followed by the comments of a new type — apart from the traditional literary notes there are interpreting ones. She carried out supervision of a number of thesis devoted to Dostoevsky's works. She has given many seminars and lectures in different Russian cities (Moscow, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Rostov Veliky, Veliky Novgorod, Barnaul, Staraya Russa, etc.). In the period between 2009 and 2015, being invited by the Catholic movement Comunione e Liberazione, Tatyana Kasatkina presented lectures on Dostoyevsky and Russian culture in the Universities of Italy (Rome, Milan, Florence, Bari, Venice etc.). Since 1999 she has been a research supervisor of the April Youth Conferences "F.M. Dostoevsky's Works in the Perception of the 21st Century Readers " in the town of Staraya Russa. She also gives seminars to the philologists of teaching professions in Veliky Novgorod. T.A. Kasatkina's works are mainly devoted to the word's creative role in culture and to the nature of the artistic image. They are theoretical studies carried out at the intersection of theory of literature, cultural studies, philosophy, religious studies, etc. In her research, she often addresses problems of religion, mysticism, symbolism and the ontological nature of things using as the material the works of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov, Blok, etc.

In the media

• October 18, 2006 T.A. Kasatkina took part in A. Kostinsky's program «Obrazovanije» (Russian Образование — Education) on Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. The topic of the program was «Research work of schoolchildren as exemplified by the course "Dostoevsky as he is seen by the 21st century readers"»
• November 10, 2011 she gave the lecture «The Brothers Karamazov: the image of the world and man» on the TV channel «Russia-K» (project ACADEMIA).
• November 26, 2012 she took part in the program of I. Popov «Kulturoteka» on Radio «New Life». The topic of the program was «Is Dostoevsky relevant today?»

Awards

• 1997 — award of the magazine «Novy Mir»
• 2015 — award of the magazine «Voprosy literatury» (Russian Вопросы литературы — Problems of Literature)

Books in Russian Characterology of Dostoyevsky. Moscow: «Nasledije», 1996.

• On the poietic nature the word. Ontological power of the word in F.M Dostoevsky's works as the basis of «the realism in the highest sense». Moscow: The Gorky Institute of World Literature, 2004.
• The sacred in the everyday life: a two-part image in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky. Moscow: The Gorky Institute of World Literature, RAS, 2015. — 528 p.

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Books in Italian

• Tat’jana Kasatkina. Dal paradiso all’inferno: I confini dell’umano in Dostoevskij / a cura di Elena Mazzola. Castel Bolognese: Itakalibri, 2012. — 218 p.
• Tat’jana Kasatkina. Dostoevskij. Il sacro nel profano / prefazione di Uberto Motta, traduzione i cura di Elena Mazzola. Milano: BUR Saggi, 2012. — 314 p.
• Tat’jana Kasatkina. È Cristo che vive in te. Dostoevskij. L’immagine del mondo e dell’uomo: l’icona e il quadro / Prefazione di Julián Carrón. — Castel Bolognese: ITACA, 2012. — 112 p.

Book Editor (books in Russian)

• F. M.Dostoyevsky's novel «The Idiot»: the current state of study: a collection of works of Russian and foreign scientists / Moscow: Nasledije, 2001.
• Literary studies as a problem / Moscow, 2001
• Dostoevsky and Orthodox Christianity / a collection of publicist works about Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Moscow, 2003.
• F. M. Dostoevsky's collected works in 9 vol. /Moscow: Astrel, AST, 2003—2004.
• Dostoevsky: Addenda to the Commentary / Moscow: Nauka, 2005
• Dostoyevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov ": the current state of the study. Moscow: Nauka, 2007.
• Dostoevsky and the twentieth ocentury / Moscow: The Gorky Institute of World Literature 2007. Vols. 1-2.
• Dostoevsky F. M. The selected works/ Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2010. Series: Library of the national social thought from ancient times to the early 20th century.

Links

• Facebook page of Tatyana Kasatkina on Facebook