Konstantin Bogdanov
Konstantin Anatolevich Bogdanov is a Russian anthropologist and philologist whose areas of investigation covers Russian culture, including folklore, rhetoric, and the history of science and humanities. He has also researched the history of social thought in 18th–20th-century Russia.
Early life and education
Konstantin Bogdanov was born in 1963 in Leningrad, USSR. He obtained his undergraduate degree in classical philology and Russian language and literature at Saint Petersburg State University. Bogdanov became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.In 1992, Bogdanov completed his PhD with the dissertation: “Magic Spelling in Russian Folklore: A Structural Analysis". The same year, he became a leading researcher for the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1994 to 1995, Bogdanov was a senior lecturer for the State University of Trade Unions for the Humanities in Saint Petersburg. During this time, he obtained a grant from the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and produced an investigation of social thought in 19th-century Russia. Bogdanov continued his post-doctoral work with the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1998. He produced another dissertation, "Russian Folklore; Semiotics of Reality” in 2002.
Teaching
He has taught various Russian university courses on Greco-Roman Culture, Russian literature of 18th and 20th century, survey courses on Russian culture. During his long association with the University of Konstanz in Germany, he has also taught courses in Russian literature and culture over the entire range of Russian history in English and in Russian. He also has experience in teaching Greek, Latin, and Russian language courses. His major scholarly interests are focused on historical and theoretical aspects of 18th–20th-century Russian literature and culture. His main area of investigation was still Russian Literature and Folklore, History of Social Thought, History of Russian and European Rhetoric, Cultural History of Russian and Soviet Humanities.Professional activities
Since 1992, Bogdanov is a Leading Researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Since 2001, he is a visiting professor at the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Konstanz. From 2001 to 2003, he had a research project "History of Translation and Adaptation of European Rhetoric in 17th–18th-Century Russia", which was supported by Thyssen Stiftung. After that, he had a two-year research project on Soviet sciences in the 1920s and 1930s, funded by the German Research Foundation .Dr. Bogdanov is an active organizer of professional conferences, most notably being active in the annual conference on “Mythology and Day-to-day Life” by the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg.
Monographs
- Vox Populi. The Folklore Genres of Soviet Culture. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. Moscow. 2009.
- Crocodiles in Russia. A History of Exoticism and Loan Words. Moscow: NLO, 2006. 352 pp.
- Physicians, Patients, Readers: Pathographical Texts of Russian Culture of 18 -19th Centuries. Moscow: OGI, 2005, 520 pp.
- Everyday Life and Mythology: Studies on Semiotics of Folklore Reality. St. Petersburg: Iskusstvo, 2001, 438 pp.
- Aratus. Phaenomena. Ancient Greek Text with Russian Translation, Introduction and line-by-line Commentary. St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2000, 252 pp.
- Homo Tacens. Anthropology of Silence. St. Petersburg: Russian Christian Institute for the Humanities Press, 1998, 354 pp.
- Money in Russian Folklore, St. Petersburg: Bell, 1995, 125 pp.