PhD students 3rd cohort

1999–2004 Diploma studies, Saint Petersburg State University, specialization: Russian language and literature

2004 –2007 Doctoral studies, Saint Petersburg State University, specialization: Russian literature

2007 PhD, Saint Petersburg State University. Thesis topic: "Russian oratory prose of the middle of the 18th century (eulogy in secular and spiritual literature)".

2008-2016 Lecturer at the Department of History of Russian Literature, Saint Petersburg State University

2016-2022 Assistant Professor at the Department of History of Russian Literature, Saint Petersburg State University

• Lectures and seminars: "History of Russian Literature of the 18th Century", "History of Old Russian Literature", "History of Russian Literature of the First Half of the 19th Century", "Literary Theory: Rhetoric", "Poetics and Stylistics"
• Co-leader of the regular seminar "Russian 18th century" (18vek.spb.ru)
• Head of the section "Literary Culture of Russia of the 18th Century" on International Philological Conferences at Saint Petersburg State University (2007−2022)
• Editor of the periodical anthology "Literary culture of Russia of the 18th Century" (2007−2019)
• Member of the organizing committee of several international conferences

2008-2022 Research fellow (part-time), Department "Mikhail Lomonosov Dictionary", Institute for Linguistic Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2022-2023 Research fellow at the Institute for Slavic and Caucasus Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Since 05/2023 Postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Training Group "The Romantic Model"

Apophatic rhetoric in the lyrics of Russian romanticism

The term "apophatic" comes back from Christian theology: it is the theological method of knowing God through understanding what he is not, that is, through negation. However, the apophatic method of thinking and description goes beyond theology. In Russian literature, apophatic rhetoric, namely extensive series of denials in the description of a particular phenomenon, can be found in works by different writers and poets, but it acquires special significance for the literature of romanticism. The apophatic rhetoric correlates with the core tenets of Romanticism which include the concept of dual worlds, a deep connection with religious consciousness, a dialectical understanding of the universe, the importance of meta-rationality and metaphysics, and a recognition that there are aspects of the universe that are obscure, unknowable, and defy verbalization.
The main task of the project is to describe apophatic rhetoric and analyze the functions that negations perform in the lyrics of Russian romanticism. For the analysis of apophatic rhetoric in the poetry of Russian romanticism three poets of the first half of the 19th century have been chosen: Vasily Zhukovsky (1783–1852), Konstantin Batyushkov (1787–1855) and Evgeny Baratynsky (1800–1844). Their works cover two periods of development of Russian romanticism (early and mature). At the same time, the dominant of the lyrical world of each of them is different. All this allows us to consider the apophatic rhetoric in their lyrics in various aspects and research several problems:

• apophatic rhetoric in individual poetic systems (in the lyrics of a particular author),
• apophatic rhetoric as a rhetorical dominant of a particular poem,
• apophatic rhetoric in the structure of intertextual connections in Russian romantic poetry,
• apophatic rhetoric in translations and adaptations of European poetry.

Selected publications in Russia

• Matveev, E. M. Russkaja oratorskaja prosa serediny XVIII veka (panegirik v svetskoj i duchovnoj literature). Sankt-Peterburg, 2009. 140 p.
• Zacharova, E. A., Laletina, O. S., Matveev, E. M. (Verfasser); Volkov, S. S., Chvorost’janova, E. V. (ed.). Slovar’ jazyka M. V. Lomonosova. Materialy k slovarju. Vypusk 3. Slovar’ rifm M. V. Lomonosova. Leksikon stichovych okončanij. Saint Petersburg, 2011. 620 p.
• Zacharova, E. A., Laletina, O. S., Matveev, E. M. (Verfasser); Volkov, S. S., Chvorost’janova, E. V. (ed.). Slovar’ jazyka M. V. Lomonosova. Materialy k slovarju. Vypusk 4. Slovar’ rifm M. V. Lomonosova. Obratnyj slovar’ rifmennych sermentov i bezrifmennych okončanij. Ukazateli. Saint Peterburg, 2011. 1100 p.
• Matveev, E. M. Ritoričeskij analiz chudožestvennogo teksta. Učebnoje posobije. Saint Petersburg, 2015. 92 p.
• Matveev, E. M. “K voprosu o biblejskich i bogoslužebnych zaimstvovanijach u Lomonosova”. In: Slověne. 2017. 1. P. 393–412.
• Buсharkin, P. E., Volkov, S. S., Matveev, E. M. (ed.). Ritorika M. V. Lomonosova. Saint Petersburg, 2017. 632 p.
• Matveev, E. M. “Intertekstual’nost’ kak ritoričeskaja dominanta: stichotvorenie G. Ivanova «Svoboden put’ pod Fermopilami…»”. In: Karpov, А. А., Stepanov, А. D. (ed.). Intertekstualnyj analiz: printsypy i granitsy. Saint Petersburg, 2017. S. 228–240.
• Matveev, E. M. “Ody V. P. Petrova and ody M. V. Lomonosova: slovesnaja i ritmiko-sintaksičeskaja formul’nost’”. In: Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo gosudarsvennogo universiteta. Jazyk i literatura. 2018. 15 (3). P. 354–366.
• Bucharkin, P. E., Matveev, E. M. “Antroponimy v Russkoj literature XVIII veka: o nekotoroj aspektach funkcionirovanija imeni v ode i tragedii”. In: Russkaya literatura. 2020. 3. P. 5–19.
• Matveev, E. M. “Četyre slova na inavguraciju Akadenii chudožestv: M. V. Lomonosov, A. P. Sumarokov, Platon (Levšin), A. M. Saltykov”. In: Alekseeva, N. Ju., Kočetkova, N. D., Nikolaev, S. I. (ed.). XVIII vek. 30. Saint Petersburg, 2020. P. 147–160.
• Matveev, E. M. “Mašina vremeni os’mnascatogo stoletija: putešestvie v antičnost’ i obratno”. In: Grigor’evа, Е. N., Gus’kov, N. A., Karpov, N. А. et al. (ed.). Carpe diem: professoru Aleksandru Anatol’eviču Karpovu ko dnju semidesjatiletija. Saint Petersburg, 2021. P. 37–53.
• Matveev, E. M., Smirnova, A. S. “Soimennje personaži v «Ritorike» M. V. Lomonosova: predšestvujuščaja ritoričeskaja tradicyja i poėtičeskaja praktika vtoroj poloviny XVIII veka”. In: Kazanskij, N. N. (ed.). Indoevropejskoe jazykoznanie i klassičeskaja filologija XXV (2). Saint Petersburg, 2021. P. 881–893.
• Volkov, S. S., Matveev, E. M., Šarichina, M. G. (ed.). Slovar’ antroponimov v russkoj panerigičeskoj poėzii XVIII veka. Saint Petersburg, 2021.

Publications outside Russia

• Matveev, E. M. “Paneriričeskaja oda M. V. Lomonosova v istorii russkoj filologičeskoj mysli: problemy izučenija i metody issledovanija”. In: Holtz, B., Marggraff, U. (ed.). Herrscherlob und Herrscherkritik in den slawischen Literaturen. Festschrift für Ulrike Jekutsch zum 60. Geburtstag (= Opera Slavica. Neue Folge. Vol. 55). Wiesbaden, 2013. P. 75–86.
• Matveev, E. M. “O nekotorych funkcijach biblejskich citat v proze M. V. Lomonosova”. In: Monakhov, S., Vasilyeva, I., Khokhlova M. (ed.). Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016) (= Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research. Vol. 122). 2017. P. 376–379.
• Matveev, E. M. “War and Anti-war Rhetoric: A. Blok’s Poem Petrogradskoe nebo mutilos’ doždёm…”. In: Bucharkin, P., Ekuč, U., Matveev, E. (ed.). “Blessed Heritage”: The Classical Tradition and Russian Literature. «Blažennoe nasledstvo»: Klassičeskaja tradicija i russkaja literaturа (= Opera Slavica. Neue Folge. Vol. 64). Wiesbaden, 2018. P. 239–251.
• Matveev, E. M. “Preromantičeskije ėlementy v poezii A. A. Rževskogo“. In: Bukharkin, P., Jekutsch, U. (ed.). Epochenumbruch? Literatur um 1800 im Russischen Reich (= Opera Slavica. Neue Folge. Bd. 68). Wiesbaden, 2021. P. 127–140.

Talks and presentations at international conferences

• Conference “XL Meždunarodnaja filologičeskaja konferencija“ (online, 15–23.03.2022): Apofatičeskaja poetika G. R. Deržavina.
• Conference “Dvenadcatyje Rimskie Kirillo-Мefodievskie čtenija“ (online, 31.01–04.02.2022): Biblejskie imena v russkoy panegiričeskoy poezii XVIII veka.
• Conference “Indoevropejskoe jazykoznanie i klassičeskaja filologija – XXV“ (Sankt Petersburg, Russland, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 21–23.06.2021): Soimennie personaži v “Ritorike“ M. V. Lomonosova: predšestvujuščaja ritoričeskaja tradicija i poetičeskaja praktika vtoroj poloviny XVIII veka (together with A. S. Smirnova).
• Conference “Odinnadcatye Rimskie Kirillo-Мefodievskie čtenija“ (online, 01–05.02.2021): Mašina vremeni os’mnascatogo stoletija: putešestvie v antičnost’ i obratno.
• Conference “Desjatye Rimskie Kirillo-Мefodievskie čtenija“ (Rom – Pisa, Italien, 02–09.02.2020): Naimenovanija tropov i figur reči v filologičeskich trudach Lomonosova i ego predšestvennikov (together with N. V. Kareva).
• Conference “Devjatye Rimskie Kirillo-Мefodievskie čtenija“ (Rom – Salerno, Italien, 04–09.02.2019): Biblejskie i bogoslužebnye zaimstvovanija v odičeskoj poezii M. V. Lomonosova i V. P. Petrova.
• Conference “The Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, Tenth International Conference“ (6–11.07 2018, Straßburg, Frankreich): О biblejskich i bogoslužebnych zaimstvovanijach v poezii M. V. Lomonosova i V. P. Petrova.
• Conference “Literaturnoe tvorčestvo Aleksandra Petroviča Sumarokova“ (02–03.10.2017, Sankt Petersburg, Russland, Institut für Russische Literatur (Puschkin-Haus) der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften): Četyre slova na inavguraciju Akadenii chudožestv: M. V. Lomonosov, A. P. Sumarokov, Platon (Levšin), A. M. Saltykov.
• Conference “Indoevropejskoe jazykoznanie i klassičeskaja filologija – XIX“ (Sankt Petersburg, Russland, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 22–24.06.2015): Stichotvornye primery v “Kratkom rukovodstve k krasnorečiju” M. V. Lomonosova.
• Conference “Światło i ciemność w europejskim Oświeceniu” (Siedlce, Polen 24–25.09.2014): Preromantičeskie ėlementy v Poezija A. A. Rževskogo: meždu barokko i preromantizmom.
• Conference “Epochenumbruch. Von der Aufklärung zur Romantik im Russischen Reich“ (Greifswald, Deutschland, 04.-07.06.2014): Preromantičeskie ėlementy v poezii A. A. Rževskogo.

Invited lectures at German universities

• Greifswald University, 04.12.2018: Cerkovnyj kontekst russkoj toržestvennoj ody XVIII veka (na materiale od M. V. Lomonosova i V. P. Petrova)
• Hamburg University, 08.05.2018: Klassičeskaja ritorika i russkaja oratorskaja proza XVIII veka (M. V. Lomonosov i A. P. Sumarokov)
• Hamburg University, 09.05.2018: Ritorika v postritoričeskoj slovesnosti: ritoričeskie strategii V. Majakovskogo i A. Bloka (na primere stichotvorenij “Adišče goroda“ i “Petrogradskoe nebo mutilos’ doždёm…“)
• Greifswald University, 15.12.2017: Oratorskaja proza A. P. Sumarokova
• Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 13.12.2017: Ritoričeskie strategii v rasskaze M. Zoščenko “Papaša“
• Greifswald University, 26.10.2016: Ritoričeskaja struktura stichotvorenija G. Ivanova “Svoboden put’ pod Fermopilami…“