Dr Olga Malinovskaya
PhD, MA in English Philology and Medival Studies
Dr Vladimir Bliznekov
PhD in Philosophy, LL.M in International Law, associate professor
Philosopher and international law lawyer. Studied at Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), but after that, I studied in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. As a philosopher, I am focused on existentialism, phenomenology, and personalism. Besides these topics, I am also interested in philosophical and modern applied ethics.
I am fond of philosophy and, like Husserl, believe it is an important science and the greatest achievement of global spiritual culture. Regarding the thinking process, I am interested in ideas and phenomenological experience.
I am curious about European history, Romance-Germanic language families, French and Spanish literature.
My hobbies: traveling, mountain hiking, mini-golf.
Leonid Klein
Senior professor
Philologist, radio host, business lecturer, and educator. Head of Students Department of Education in RANEPA. Author of multiple lections on culture and literature (Litres, Storytel).
Personal website (in Russian): https://www.imreader.ru/
Alexandr Kostrichkin
Senior professor
I teach Critical Thinking and Academic Reading.
Graduated from VGIK (The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) at the screenwriting and film studies department. Since 2000, I’ve participated in plays by Drama and Directing Center, International confederations of theatre unions, Satire Theatre; worked as a voice actor at Pifagor and Mosfilm-master studios.
I have voiced over several characters including young Lord Voldemort, by telling which I accidentally sparked an extra interest in my discipline. Starting from 2013, I am working with high school students at RANEPA pre-university program (Critical Thinking, Modern Culture Texts, and Cognition Theory courses).
I am also a host at cinema clubs; together with Khurumov S.Y. I launched a podcast called “Prosto Chuma!” (Просто Чума!”) in 2020.
Spheres of interest: Soviet cinematography, everyday life culture, mass culture, interpretation theory, practical rhetorics.
Natalia Krasovskaya
Senior professor
I have been working at the Department of Humanities since its foundation. A lot of interesting events have happened since and perhaps precisely this experience has taught me how to be in my element regarding education, especially if it is something about coming up with completely new things that have not been done before (projects, disciplines, programs, etc.).
Throughout these years I have been developing and teaching the Philosophy of Media, Academic Reading, Sociology of Everyday Life, 20th Century Culture. Now I am teaching an Everyday Life and Social Communications course created by me for the Advertising and PR major and continuing to develop an unusual for Russian universities system of tutor guidance for the students.
Advaita Vedanta, yoga and Ayurveda are the things that help me both in life and work.
Dmitriy Mikhel
PhD in philosophy, professor
A philosopher and science historian. I specialize in medical humanities; one of the creators of medical anthropology in Russia. I am interested in studying Eastern cultures, Ancient Greek, Iranian and Japanese poetry. I’ve also been doing sports my whole life, I’m a master of sports in Russia in the bench press (since 2016).
I strongly appreciate the works of these philosophers: Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Paul the Apostle, Ibn Sina, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Nikolay Berdyaev, Michel Foucault and Mahatma Gandhi – the differences between them lay on the surface yet their similarities are there once you get deeper.
I believe that philosophy is not only a field of knowledge or a thinking approach but also a lifestyle.
Irina Mikhel
PhD in philosophy, associate professor
A philosopher and a historian specializing in the field of medical-humanities research, bioethics, medical anthropology, and eco-philosophy. I am curious about Iranian poetry, Ancient Greek and Indian philosophy.
I do fitness as well, my favorite sport is badminton.
Favorite thinkers – Confucius, Socrates and Pre-Socratic philosophers, Omar Khayyam, Nikolay Berdyaev, Aleksandr Zinoviev, Francis Fukuyama, William Engdahl, Vandana Shiva.
Natalia Malysheva
PhD in philology, professor
In RANEPA, I teach Academic Reading.
I took a postgraduate course in MSLU where my thesis topic was A Linguistic Diagnosis of Invective Language.
My interests are writing styles and literature editing, public speaking and rhetorics. I am fascinated by initiative and creative people whose eyes light up when they are working. I try to inspire my students to find scientific researches. My motto is this: The Best Example is Your Personal Example.
Lubov Novitskas
PhD in philology, professor
I teach Critical Thinking, am keen on literature (especially for kids) and modern publishing process. I like the literature and culture of Ancient Rus as well.
I value precision and believe humanities cannot go without it.
I am an organizer of an annual international young researches conference “Textual studies and historical literature process” at MSU’s department of philology.
Anton Smolkin
PhD in sociology, associate professor, deputy editor of The Sociology of Power journal.
Hobbies: baroque music, chess
Alexander Tankhilevich
Professor
I teach Academic Reading and Critical Thinking. Previously, I have also taught Visual Culture of XX-XXI centuries: filmmaking. I am interested in philology, history of culture, theatre and films.
I finished both my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at MSU as an Indology historian. Apart from that, I am an actor, I graduated from GITIS and Golomazov and Khomskiy’s school. Currently, I am a postgraduate student of the philological faculty at MSU. Apart from that, I am studying Isaac Babel and Russian modernism prose.
As an actor, I acted in films and TV series directed by Roman Volobuev, Artem Mikhalkov, Kiril Tsynman, Aleksey Kitaytsev and more. Since 2014 I’ve been teaching acting and scenic speech both in Russian and English.
In ISS, I created ISS Theatre – a theatre for students of ISS, directed several plays such as The Thunderstorm (by Ostrovskiy) and Five Evenings (by Volodin).
Mikhail Fridman
PhD in philosophy, professor
A poet, philosopher, educator and naturalist.
Stanislav Khurumov
PhD in philosophy, associate professor
In RANEPA, I teach Academic Reading.
I’ve received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in MPGU at a philology faculty and I’ve taken PhD in RGGU at the department of comparative research on literature in history and philology faculty. In 1998, my PhD thesis was about graveyard English poetry as perceived by Bobrov.
I’ve taught rhetorics, theory, history and sociology of culture, the hermeneutics of filmmaking in MPGU, RANEPA, RGGU. I’ve published works by one of the main hermeneutics and culture historian Mikhaylov.
In RANEPA, I’ve taught Critical Thinking, Philosophy and Rhetorics. I’ve also been a cohost of the university film club The Most Important.
Hosted a special seminar called The Scariest about thrillers and noir in films.
In 2020, together with Alexander Kostrichkin we launched a podcast that eventually became about cinematography.
Elena Yugai
PhD in philology, associate professor
I was born in Vologda. Graduated from Vologda State Pedagogical University and Maxim Gorkiy’s Literature Institut in Moscow. In 2011, I defended a PhD thesis called The Main Images of the Executioner (based on the material of funeral and memorial lamentations from Vologodskaya oblast).
I’ve worked in a Monitoring Actual Folklore group in the Laboratory of theoretical folkloristics SHAGI ISS RANEPA. I’ve written several scientific papers including monographs about Vologodsk’s lamentations in XX century.
Since childhood my family and friends called me Leta – this is the name my poetics works are signed with. My poems were published in numerous journals such as Noviy Mir, Zvezda, Ortyabr, Druzhba Narodov, Novaya Yunost and more.
I am also an author of a few poetic books such as Between the Water and the Ice (2010), Forget It-River (2015). I’m a poetry laureate of Debut awards 2013.