On the Jubilee of Elena N. Kovtun

Abstract

This congratulatory message refers to the lead researcher of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of the History of Slavic Literatures, Doctor of Philology Elena N. Kovtun. Since 1991, after defending her PhD thesis “The functions of convention in the artistic system of Karel Chapek. The traditions of H. G. Wells”, E. N. Kovtun began to work at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Since 2003, she has been a professor at the Department of Slavic Philology, lectured on the history and culture of the Czech Republic, the history of Czech literature, conducted special courses for bachelors, undergraduates and postgraduates. In 2000, E. N. Kovtun defended her doctoral thesis “Types and functions of artistic conventions in European literature of the first half of the twentieth century”. She has published five books and is the author of many articles on fiction and secondary artistic conventions in Slavic and Western European, as well as in Russian and North American literatures. In 2007, E. N. Kovtun established the Department of Slavic Studies and Central European Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities and directs this department to this day. In addition, she worked on reforming and modernizing Russian higher education. Since 1991, E. N. Kovtun has been the Academic Secretary of the Council for Philology of the Educational and Methodological Association for Classical University Education. Since 2015, she headed the Educational and Methodological Council for Philology of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association “Linguistics and Literary Studies” and developed the federal state educational standards in philology. In 2016–2021, she served as Director of the Institute of Russian Language and Culture at Lomonosov Moscow State University. E. N. Kovtun is a member of the Union of Writers of Russia and president of the Association of Science Fiction Researchers, winner of the I. A. Efremov Prize (2009). At the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, E. N. Kovtun has been heading the Department of the History of Slavic Literatures since 2022, preserving the traditions of the former head of this department, L. N. Budagova.

Received 28 November 2024

Revised 5 December 2024

Accepted 11 December 2024

For citation: Kravchenko, T. Ju., 2024. On the Jubilee of Elena N. Kovtun. Slavic World in the Third Millennium, 19 (3–4), pp. 240–244. https://doi.org/10.31168/2412-6446.2024.19.3-4.12