Anna Usacheva
Doctor of Classical and Byzantine Philology, Ph.D.
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Primary academic affiliation
- 2017 Scholarship / Queen Ingrid’s Roman Foundation (Carlsberg Foundation) / Denmark
- 2012 Scholarship / Fondation Hardt / Switzerland
- 2012 Bourse Newman / l’Institut Catholique de Paris / France
- anna.usacheva@univ-lille.fr
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- History and philosophy of Late Antiquity, epistemology, linguistics, psychology and sociology of Late Antiquity, migration, publishing culture, book dissemination, educational networks of Late Antiquity
Primary academic affiliation
- Postdoctoral researcher, EX-PATRIA project, HALMA Center, Université de Lille
- 2002-2007 Ryazan State University, Philological faculty, Department of Christian Theology, Specialist
- 2007-2011 Moscow State University, Philological Faculty, Department of Classical and Byzantine Philology, Ph.D.
- 08.2020 – 09.2023 University of Helsinki: Vice Leader and Postdoctoral Researcher in the project “Authorial Publishing in Early Medieval World”.
- 09.2018–07.2020 University of Helsinki: Core Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
- 07.2015–09.2017 University of Aarhus: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow.
- 09.2012–06.2015 Academic Publishing House “Dmitry Pozharsky University Press” (Moscow): Chief Editor.
- 09.2012–06.2015 St. Tiknon’s Orthodox University (Moscow): Lecturer in Late Antique Literature and Philosophy.
Main monographs
Main papers
- Usacheva, A., Knowledge, Language and Intellection from Origen to Gregory Nazianzen. Peter Lang. 2017, 978-3-631-73109-3
Main papers
- Educational and Ritual Aspects of Reading and Publishing Practices from the Greek Philosophical Schools to Latin Monasticism, in: Mediterranean Flows: People, Objects and Ideas in Motion, Brill, 2023. pp.148-180, 978-3-506-79513-7
- Dire le Sacré chez Origène: Language Theory of Origen and the Voces Magicae Concept in the Context of Late Antiquity, in: Dire le sacré: spiritualités et représentations (musique, arts visuels, littérature, philosophie, théologie, Effigi, 2020, pp.65-81, 978-8855241250
- The Contact Theories of Epistemology in Aristotle, Apostle Paul and Gregory Nazianzen: “then shall I know, even as also I am known” (1Cor 13:12), in: Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity. Hermeneutical, institutional and textual perspectives, Brill, 2020, pp.125-145, 978-3-506-70346-0
- Christian Ensoulment Theories within Dualist Psychological Discourse, in: The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought, Brill, 2020, pp.144-170, 978-3-506-70339-2
- Agonistic Mimêsis and Genre Bending in Gregory Nazianzen’s Orations against the Emperor Julian, in: Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata, 2020, 17, pp.167-195
- A Fluidity of Canon and Structuring Theological Knowledge in the Works of Origen, in: Beyond We and Them: Decolonizing Greco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities, Aarhus University PressAarhus University Press, 2019, pp.117-131, 9788771844436
- Who Knows His Aristotle Better? Apropos of the Philosophical Polemics of Gregory Nazianzen against the Eunomians, in: Les polémiques religieuses du 1er au IVe siècle de notre ère, Les Éditions Beauchesne, 2018, pp.407-421, 9782701022772
- Theological manual by Gregory of Nazianzus: genre, style and methodological design of the orations 27, 28, in: Dire Dieu. Les Principes Méthodologique de L’Écriture sur Dieu en Patristique, Les Éditions Beauchesne, 2017, pp.211-227, 9782701022123
- Grammar of Theology: Logical Argumentation from Origen to the Cappadocian Fathers, in: Vox patrum, 2017, 37 (68), pp.95-105
- The Body of Nous: Gregory Nazianzen’s Concept of the Human Mind in the Context of Peripatetic Philosophy, in: The Legacies of Aristotle as Constitutive Element of European Rationality, 2017, pp.223-249, 9785906578297
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