Tatyana Kasatkina


Tatyana Aleksandrovna Kasatkina is a Russian philosopher, philologist, culture expert, religious scholar and writer. She is an expert in the field of theory of culture, theory of literature, philosophy, religious studies, the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Russian literature of the 19th-21st centuries. She is a Doctor of Phililogy, president of the Research Committee for Dostoyevsky's Artistic Heritage within the Scientific Council for the History of World Culture, RAS. T. A. Kasatkina is a member of the International society of F. M. Dostoevsky, and of the management Board of the Russian society of F. M. Dostoevsky. She is also a member of a number of editorial boards: that of the Almanac «Dostoevsky and World Culture», the Yearbook «Dostoevsky and the Present», and «Dostoevsky Monograph». T.A. Kasatkina is the author of 6 books, novella «The Copy», textbooks for the course «Religion, Culture, Art», more than 300 scientific articles. She has edited a number of collective monographs of Russian and foreign researchers.

Biography

Tatyana Kasatkina is one of the most prominent Russian specialists in the field of Dostoyevsky studies. A number of her research works were published not only in Russia but also in Great Britain, the US, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Japan, China, etc.
She prepared for publication a new collection of works by F.M. Dostoyevsky, which is organized in a chronological order. Each volume contains not only Dostoyevsky's works of a respective period of his life but also letters and memoirs of his contemporaries that are followed by the comments of a new type — apart from the traditional literary notes there are interpreting ones. She carried out supervision of a number of thesis devoted to Dostoevsky's works.
She has given many seminars and lectures in different Russian cities. In the period between 2009 and 2015, being invited by the Catholic movement Comunione e Liberazione, Tatyana Kasatkina presented lectures on Dostoyevsky and Russian culture in the Universities of Italy. Since 1999 she has been a research supervisor of the April Youth Conferences "F.M. Dostoevsky's Works in the Perception of the 21st Century Readers " in the town of Staraya Russa. She also gives seminars to the philologists of teaching professions in Veliky Novgorod.
T.A. Kasatkina's works are mainly devoted to the word's creative role in culture and to the nature of the artistic image. They are theoretical studies carried out at the intersection of theory of literature, cultural studies, philosophy, religious studies, etc. In her research, she often addresses problems of religion, mysticism, symbolism and the ontological nature of things using as the material the works of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov, Blok, etc.

In the media

Books in Russian Characterology of Dostoyevsky. Moscow: «Nasledije», 1996.