Andrei Liustrov

Area(s) of Study: 18th-19th Century Russian Literature, intellectual history, literature and empire, Jewish studies.

About: Andrei received his BA and MA in Russian and Comparative Literature at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” in Moscow. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Andrei moved to Israel, where he completed his MA thesis and began studying Hebrew and Jewish studies. His MA thesis was dedicated to the ideological functions of the Russian historical novels and plays of the 1830s-1850s, the idea of a “special path” and the historical imagination. Studying Russian historical novels and plays of the 1830s-1850s, Andrei sought to refine the idea of how national thinking was formed in Russia. In addition to studying Russian historical literature, in graduate school, Andrei plans to focus on the image of the “other” in Russian culture and to explore Jewish literature in Russia in the 19th century.

Education: 

– National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (Moscow, Russia) – BA and MA in Russian and Comparative Literature

Publications:

– “Taras Bulba, or Treason and Death for a Beautiful Panna’: A Story by N.V. Gogol as a Text for Folk Readings.”Russian Philology. Collection of Research Papers of Young Philologists, vol. 31, 2020.
– “Bestial Rhetoric in G. Orwells’s Story ‘Animal Farm.” Politics and Culture in the Modern World, edited by Olga Starovojtova, 2019.
– “The Story of N.V. Gogol ‘Taras Bulba:’ The Fate of Two Editions in the School Canon.” Summer School in Russian Literature, vol. 15, no. 2-3, 2018.
– “Andrei Bely’s Chiaroscuro: Two Arcticles About the Collection of F. Sologub ‘Decaying Masks.” Summer School in Russian Literature, vol. 14, no. 2-3, 2018.