Author Biography
Mikhail Velizhev is a specialist in Russian and European intellectual history and history of Russian literature. He holds two doctoral degrees – from the State University of the Humanities (2004) and the University of Milan (2006). In 2007-2008 he was a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Fiesole (EUI). Until 2022 he was professor of Russian literature and culture at the Higher School of Economics University (Moscow, Russia). His field of research includes history of Russian literature and culture, Russian intellectual history, history of political thought, methodology of human sciences, microhistory. Velizhev is one of the editors of the “Intellectual History” series of the “Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie” publishing house, which also contains two special series devoted to microhistory and Italian studies. He published several articles and books, in particular Civilization, or War of the Worlds (2019) and Chaadaev’s Affair: Ideology, Rhetoric and Power in Russia in the Epoch of Nicholas I (2022).