Nikolay Grintser is a classic philologist, director of the School of Contemporary Humanitarian Research, RANEPA. Doctor of Philology, a specialist in ancient Greek literature of the archaic and classical eras, ancient literary and linguistic theory, comparative mythology and the history of religion. Head of the Department of Classical Philology of the Institute of Oriental Cultures and Antiquity of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Head of the Laboratory of Ancient Culture at the RANEPA SHAGI. Since 2016 - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Co-author of the book "Formation of literary theory in Ancient Greece and India" (2000, together with P. A. Grintser), commentator of Homer ("Homer. Iliad. Odyssey", 2002). Field of interests: classical Greek literature, Homeric epic, Greek drama, comparative mythology, history of humanities.
In 1988 graduated summa cum laude from the Department of Classical Philology, Moscow State University. In 1991 got a Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) degree from Moscow State University. Dissertation: "Syntax Theory in the Development of Classical Grammatical Tradition". In 1999 got a Doctor of Sciences (Habilitation) degree from Moscow State University. Dissertation: - "The Formation of Classical Literary Theory". In 1989-1994 – Junior Researcher at the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1989 started working as Lecturer in Latin and Greek and history of the humanities at Moscow State University.
Since 1992 – Associate Professor, then Full Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Courses taught: Greek language and literature, mythology, history of religion, history of the humanities and education in the classical age. Since 1995 – Chair, Department of Classical Culture (then – Classical Philology), Russian State University of the Humanities. Since 2013 – Director, School of the Advanced Studies in The Humanities, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Chair of the Center of Classical Studies. In 2016 was elected Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
As a Visiting Fellow worked at Harvard University and Center of Hellenic Studies, Washington, USA; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France; Free University, Berlin, Germany; Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Great Britain, Swedish Collegium of the Advanced Studies, Uppsala. Lectured at the University of California in Los Angeles, USA; Leuven University, Belgium; Freiburg University, Germany. Grantee of Russian State Scientific Foundation, Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation), International Research and Exchanges Board, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Participated in more than 70 scholarly conferences on classical studies, linguistics, semiotics and history of the humanities, both Russia-wide and international (in USA, Greece, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Denmark, Serbia). Author of more than 80 scholarly publications in Russian and English.
Member of the Administrative Board of Russian Classical Association. Member of the Editorial Boards of Russian peer-reviewed scholarly journals "Vestnik drevnej istorii", "Voprosy literatury" and "Shagi/Steps".
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