Biografia autore
Mikhail Velizhev (b. 1980) is a specialist in Russian and European intellectual history and in the history of Russian literature, Associate Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Salerno, Italy. 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 research interests include the history of Russian literature and culture, Russian intellectual history, the history of political thought, the methodology of the human sciences, and microhistory. Velizhev is one of the editors of the “Intellectual History” series of the “Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie” publishing house, which also includes two special series devoted to microhistory and Italian studies. He has 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).