Academic Degree: Doct. of Philological Sc.

Academic Rank:  Professor

Position: Head of Folklore Department

Affiliation: A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS

Contact Data:

v.klyaus@mail.ru

ORCID: 0000-0002- 8147-3090

General Information:

Education and Training, Previous Employing Institutions

1985 — Far East State University (Vladivostok), Faculty of Philology

1985–1987 — Buryat Scientific Center of Siberian Branch of the RAS, Buryat Institute of Social Sciences

1987–1991 — postgraduate courses at the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences

1992–1996 — Chita Chernyshevsky State Pedagogical Institute, chair of literature

1996–2000 — A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS, postgraduate courses for Doctor degree

Candidate of Sciences degree (1994, theme of degree work ‘Spells of Eastern and Western Slavs: an Experience of Narrative Elements’ Systematization’), Doctor of Sciences degree (2001, theme of degree work ‘The Plot System of Spell Texts of Slavs and Indigenous Peoples of Siberia: Comparative (Inter-Slavic and Slavic-Siberian) Studies’).

Chairman of the Д.002.209.04 Thesis Board in A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS

From 2002 — Head of IT technologies and Source Studies Department, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS

From 2012 — Head of Folklore Department, A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS

Editor-in-chief of a research almanac ‘Traditional Culture’ (The Russian National House of Folk Art’s and Amateur Creativity)

Key Disciplines Taught:

Folklore studies, Spells in Slavic and Russian culture, IT technologies, Methods of visual anthropology

Research Interests: Folklore Studies, Traditional Culture, Modern Technologies, Research Methods

List of Most Essential Works:

Author of more than 250 publications, including 4 monographs.

Monographs:

Klyaus V. L. Index of Plots and Plot Situations of Eastern and Western Slavs’ Spell Texts. Moscow, 1997.

Klyaus V. L. The Plot System of Slavs’ Spell Texts in Comparative Studies. Moscow, 2000.

Klyaus V. L., Supryaga S. V. Folk Songs of Yakutia’s Russkoustyintsy and Transbaikalia’s semeiskie. Materials for Studies of Existence in Other-Ethnic Environment. Kursk, 2006.

Klyaus V. L. Russian Three Rivers Area in Manchuria. Essays on Folklore and Traditional Culture. Moscow, 2015.

Articles:

Klyaus V. L. Tombstone: Ritual, Origin and Present-Day Practice in Eastern Transbaikalia. Popular Culture of Siberia. Proceedings of the 13^th Scientific and Practical Seminar of the Siberian Regional Center of University Education on Folklore. Omsk, 2015. P. 47–60.

Klyaus V. L. A ‘Living’ Stone in Spell Texts of Slavs and Indigenous Peoples of Siberia. Living Stone: from Nature to Culture / ed.-in-chief and compil. Zayonts L. O. Moscow, 2015. P. 146–153.

Klyaus V. L. Christian Sectarians in Narratives of Russian-Chinese Half-Breeds of Three Rivers Area (PRC). Tradicionnaya kul'tura. 2014. No. 1. P. 88–96.

Klyaus V. L. The Birth and Death of the Russian House in the Priargun'ie Three Rivers Area (PRC). Folklorica. 2014. Vol. XVIII.

Klyaus V. L. Churches of Three Rivers Area. Tradicionnaya kul'tura. 2014. No. 4. P. 25–34.

Klyaus V. L., Ostrogskaya A. A. Russian Folklore in Chinese: an Experience of Field Research at Three Rivers Area. Tradicionnaya kul'tura. 2014. No. 4. P. 41–50.

Klyaus V. L. Frequency of Motives in Spells. Russkij fol'klor Sibiri. Elementy arhitektoniki. Novosibirsk, 1990. P. 105–112.

Klyaus V. L. The Way of People and Objects Moving during the Transbaikalia Yule Ritual of Failing Down the Gate. Koncept dvizheniya v yazyke i kul'ture. Moscow, 1996. P. 271–283.

Klyaus V. L. What Did the Black Moose say? (Characteristics of Spell Repertoire Based on Books of J. Neihardt and D. Brown). Istoriya i semiotika indejskih kul'tur Ameriki. Moscow, 2002. P. 436–443.

Klyaus V. L. Spells Fixated in Video. To the Issue of Text Variations. Spell Text: Origin and Structure. Proceedings of the Round-table. Moscow, 2002. P. 24–32.

Klyaus V. L. Spells for ‘Good Journey’. Etnopoetika i tradiciya. Moscow, 2004. P. 189–197.

Klyaus V. L. The Parables of Lithuanian Old Believers: Aspects of Functioning (based on experience of field records). Baltijskie perekrestki: etnos, konfessiya, mif, tekst. St. Petersburg, 2005. P. 338–343.

Klyaus V. L. To the Issue of Video-Fixation of Folklore. 1^st Russian Congress of Folklore Researchers.  The Collection of Papers. Vol. 2. Moscow, 2006. P. 83–97.

Klyaus V. L., Antropova N. A. Spell Rituals of an Udmurt Medicine Woman from Bagyr Village Fixated in Video. Russian North and Eastern Finno-Ugric Peoples: Problems of Time-Space Folklore Dialogue / ed.-in-chief Gatsak V. M., Vladykina T. G. Izhevsk, 2006. P. 246–275.

Klyaus V. L., Butuzova S. V. Trinity in Volkonsky Municipality’s Villages, Kozelsky District: an Experience of Present-Day Popular Rituals Monitoring. Morphology of Holiday. St. Petersburg, 2006. P. 277–287.