Sergey Zenkin
Scholar of Literature
Present and Previous Positions:
Since 1997, now research professor, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow)
Since 2017 professor, Higher School of Economics (Saint-Petersburg)
2016 February - 2016 July Visiting Scholar, Sheffield University
2013 September - 2014 July Visiting Scholar, Collegium de Lyon
2011 February - 2011 September Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
1997 Associate Researcher, National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS, France, UMR 5611 LIRE)
1979 - 1996 Academic editor, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Sovetski Pisatel and Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie publishing houses (Moscow)
Fields of Scholarship:
Theory of literature
French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
Intellectual History, especially history of 20th-century theoretical ideas in the humanities
Honours and Awards:
French order of Palmes académiques, awarded for internationally acclaimed research on French literature and theory and for Zenkin's translations of French literary theory, philosophy and human sciences into Russian