The Depatment

Head - PhD, Associate Professor Ivan Afanasyev. The department including 13 teachers, among them- six candidates. The department is actively cooperating with the Doctor of Philology, Senior Fellow, Institute of world literature named after AM Gorky, Russian Academy of Sciences SA Nebolsin, literary and cultural studies, LA Anna's, the main editor of the Russian historical magazine "Rodina" YA Borisenko.

The basic training of disciplines: History of Russian Literature (from ancient times to the twentieth century inclusive), Modern Russian literature, Russian literature abroad, Folklore, History of literary criticism, History of foreign literature (from antiquity to the present), Introduction to the study of literature, Literary theory and basis aesthetics and methodology of teaching literature.

At the department operates postgraduate studies in "Russian literature." An important line of research department - cycle of scientific conferences: the "Great Patriotic War in the fate of literature and culture: the historical experience of both philosophical and moral choice", "Christian Humanism and its tradition in Slavic culture."

The department has started the development of new disciplines - "The Psychology of Literary Creation", "Fundamentals of literary and artistic activity," "Stylistic editing and proofreading," "Copy editing", "Textual" - in the direction of "Literary and editorial activity."