Visiting researcher (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) E-Mail: alexander.grishchenko@gmail.com

Current Projects

The Issue of the Jewish-Russian Language and the Case of Samuel Wisticki (Late 17th Century) (within the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship)

Research interests

• Church Slavonic Bible
• Medieval Slavonic Literatures (Old Russian, Old Ukrainian, Old Bulgarian, Old Serbian, etc.)
• Russian Émigré literature
• Judeo-Slavic(-Turkic) literature, language, and cultural contacts in medieval Slavia Orthodoxa
• History of the Russian and Church Slavonic languages
• Slavic lexicography
• Sociolinguistics

Professional Experience

• 2020–2024 – Senior Research Fellow and Professor, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) (Moscow, Russia)
• 2015–2023 – Senior Research Fellow and Leading Research Fellow, Department of Typology and Comparative Linguistics, Department of Slavic Linguistics at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
• 2010–2022 – Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor, Modern Russian Language Department, General Linguistics and Slavic Studies Department, and Slavic Philology Department at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University for the Humanities (PSTGU) (Moscow, Russia)
• 2019–2020 – Leading Research Fellow, High Valuable Founds Research Section of the Russian State Library (Moscow)
• 2006–2020 – Assistance Lecturer and Associate Professor, Russian Language Department at Moscow State Pedagogical University (MPGU), Russia
• 2010–2011 – Associate Professor, Russian Language and Stylistics Department of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute (Moscow, Russia)
• 2006–2008 – Assistance Lecturer at the Department of Russian Language and Pedagogical Methodologies of Moscow Pedagogical Institute for the Humanities (MGPI)
• 2004–2005 – Teacher of the Russian language and literature, Private School “Viktoriia-2000” (Moscow, Russia)

Education

• December 10, 2021 – Habilitation defense (degree of Doctor of Science in Philology and Linguistics; diploma with honors), National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Moscow, Russia; thesis title: Slavic-Jewish Language Contacts in Medieval Eastern Europe: Linguistic and Textual Aspects
• July 1, 2019 – Academic rank of a Docent, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia (awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation; grades are not specified); specialization: Russian Language
• March 16, 2009 – PhD (‘Candidate of Science’) in Philology defense, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Russia; thesis title: The Idiostyle of Nikolai Morshen (grades are not specified); specializations: Russian Language and Russian Literature; supervisors: Prof. Vladimir Agenosov and Prof. Natalia Nikolina
• 2005–2008 – Postgraduate studies, Russian Language Department of Moscow State Pedagogical University (MPGU), Russia
• 2001–2005 – Undergraduate studies, Philological Faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University (MPGU), Russia; diploma in the Russian Language and Literature and in History Teaching; thesis title: Nikolai Morshen’s Works and the Traditions of the 18th–20th-centuries Russian Literature (grade: 1); diploma with honors; specialization: Russian language, literature, and history

Managing Research Projects Supported by Grants

• 2021–2024 – Medieval Russian-Jewish Contacts and Slavic Targum (Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Project No. 21-012-41004)
• 2021 – The Linguistic Situation in 15th–16th-centuries Russia: A Source Study (Foundation for the Preservation and Study of Native Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation)
• 2017–2018 – Linguistic-textual Research of the Slavonic-Russian Pentateuchs Edited according to the Masoretic Text (Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young scholars, Project No. MK-1338.2017.6)
• 2015–2016 – Language and Literary Contacts between Slavs and Jews in Medieval Slavia Orthodoxa (Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young scholars, Project No. MK-4528.2015.6)
• 2015 – Russian Ethnic Names over Time and Space (Grant of the Russian Foundation for Humanities, Project No. 15- 54-00018)
• 2013–2014 – “Self” and “Other” Ethnicity in the Russian Lexicon and Phraseology (Grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young scholars, Project No. MK-3307.2013.6)

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