Igor Evgenievich Loshchilov

Research Interests

Russian avant-garde, Siberian literature (XX century), Nikolai Zabolotsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Anton Sorokin, Peter Potemkin, Vladimir Derzhavin, Alexander Belenson, Leonid Dobychin.

Brief scientific biography

Igor Evgenievich Loshchilov was born 13 January 1965 in Novosibirsk. In 1987 he graduated from the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University. From 1988 he worked at the Chair of Russian Literature at that institution. Between 1991 and 1995 he completed an extramural course of graduate studies at the Institute of Philology at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (without a requirement to submit the text of a dissertation), specialising in “10.01.01 – Russian Literature”. In 1996 he received a grant from the Centre for International Mobility, Finland for work on a dissertation under the auspices of a project by the Finnish Academy entitled, “Modernism/Postmodernism in Russian Literature and Culture”. In 1996–1997 he lived in Helsinki. In December 1997 in Helsinki, sponsored by the University of Helsinki, the monograph, “The Phenomenon of Nikokay Zabolotsky” was published, which he defended at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Joensuu (Finland). Having defended the dissertation, he was awarded the degree “Doctor of Philosophy in Russian” with magna cum laude approbatur (this was validated in 1998 by the Russian Supreme Academic Commission as Candidate of Science in Philology).

Since 1998 Igor has been working at the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (previously called the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical Institute). At the present time he is Docent at the Chair of Russian and Foreign Literature, the Theory of Literature and Methodology for Teaching Literature at the Institute of Philology, Mass Media and Psychology, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.

Since 2013 his main place of work has been Literary Studies Sector at the Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science. At the present time he is the Sector’s head research fellow. In 2016 he became the editor-in-chief of the academic journal, “Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology”.

In 1998 thanks to a grant from the “Open Society” institute of the Soros Foundation he took part in the work of a conference in honour of the 50th anniversary of AAASS (Boca Raton, Florida, USA). In August 2000 he took part in the work of the VI Congress of the Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies (ICCEES) in Tamper (Finland). He has been a delegate at academic conferences and colloquia in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Astrakhan, Kemerovo, Smolensk, Saratov, Tomsk, Irkutsk, Barnaul, Veliky Novgorod; Turku, Helsinki and Joensuu (Finland), Stanford (USA), Belgrade (Serbia), Paris, Lyon (France), Groningen (Netherlands), Rome (Italy) and Geneva (Switzerland). In April 2014 at the invitation of the University of Columbia he held a seminar for graduates on the subject of the history and poetics in Nikolay Zabolotsky’s book, “Columns”. Igor Loshchilov was a fellow of the Prokhorov Fellowship Centre and worked for six months as a researcher at the University of Sheffield (UK) [https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/prokhorov-centre/people#tab02].

Igor Loshchilov first published in 1989. At the present time the list of publications in Russian and foreign publications on his personal Elibrary page includes 238 items.

Igor Loshchilov’s academic interests are related to the history and poetics of Russian XX century literature, in the first instance literary avantgarde (Futurists and the Association of Real Art [OBERIU]). The main focus of research has been the poet, Nikolay Zabolotsky. In 2010 in Saint Petersburg an anthology in the “Pro et contra” series was published, devoted to Zabolotsky and prepared by I. E. Loshchilov (in conjunction with T. V. Igosheva), in 2014 in Moscow an experimental volume entitled, “Metamorphoses”, in which all the poet’s works were presented in their first editions. The following year this book won the annual “Book of the Year” competition held by the Federal Agency for the Press and Mass Media, and in 2108 a second, expanded and edited version came out. In 2016 the book of poems by Nikolay Zabolotsky “Columns”, was published in the academic series, “Monuments of Literature”, prepared by I. E. Loshchilov in conjunction with the poet’s son, N. N. Zabolotsky.

Another area of academic interest is literature and the press in Siberia and the Far East during the first third of XX century and also Russian emigration eastwards. I. E. Loshchilov has taken part in the following projects: “Siberian Avantgarde in the 1920-1930s: newspaper, magazine, almanac and collection”; “The Classic Work on the Civil War, “Armoured Train 14–69” by Vsevolod Ivanov: historical and literary contexts”; “‘Chronicles’ of Siberian XX century literature in the archives and literary collections in Novosibirsk oblast” by the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research. Since Igor Loshchilov started work at the Institute for Philology at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science a range of articles have been published on the subject of forgotten phenomena of Siberian literature.

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Selected publications

Loshchilov I. E. The Phenomenon of Nikolai Zabolotsky. Helsinki: Institute for Russian and East European Studies, 1997.

Zabolotsky N. A. Metamorphoses, comp., ed., introductory article and comment by I. E. Loshchilov, Moscow, OGI, 2014.

Zabolotsky N. A. Columns and poems. Poems, article and notes by I. E. Loshchilov. Saint Petersburg, Vita Nova, 2014.

Zabolotsky N. A. Columns, ed. by I. E. Loshchilov and N. N. Zabolotsky (“Literary monuments”). Moscow, Nauka, 2016.

Zabolotsky N. A. The Mysterious City. Moscow, Ripoll-classic, 2016 (Legendary books of the FTM literary Agency).

Zabolotsky N. A. Metamorphoses, 2nd edition, comp., ed., introductory article and comment by I. E. Loshchilov, Moscow, OGI, 2019.

Zabolotsky N. A. Columns, 2nd edition, by I. E. Loshchilov and N. N. Zabolotsky (“Literary monuments”). Moscow, Nauka, 2020.