Dr. Dmitry Antonov

Department
Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and the New Age; Department of History and Theory of Culture

Position
Director of the Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and the New Age; Assistant Professor, Department of History and Theory of Culture

Academic degree
Dr. hab. in History

Background

• 2003 - Graduated from the Institute of Philology and History (RSUH);
• 2007–2013 - Assistant Professor, Institute of Russian History, RSUH;
• Since 2012 - Assistant Professor, Department of History and Theory of Culture, RSUH;
• Since 2013 - Chief Researcher, School of Humanitarian Studies, RANEPA;
• Since 2019 - Director, Senior Researcher at the Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and the New Age, RSUH.

Academic and educational activity

Courses taught:

• History of Russian culture until the end of the XVIII century,
• Visual culture,
• Modern folklore studies,
• Interdisciplinary research seminar,
• Source studies of cultural history,
• Semiotics of Russian iconography,
• Folklore of Russia, history of Russia until the XVIII century,
• History of the Muscovite State,
• Old Russian demonology.

Area of expertise

• Old Russian culture,
• Semiotics of iconography,
• Medieval demonology,
• “Popular Bible” of the Slavs,
• Relationship of visual, written and oral traditions.