
ORCID: 0000-0002-6615-872X
Profile on Academia.edu: https://rggu.academia.edu/IlyaGuryanov
Current academic positions: Leading Research Fellow at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Senior Research Fellow at RSUH, Associate Professor at ISS RANEPA.
Research interests: intellectual history of the Renaissance, Plato and the Platonic tradition, history of early modern medicine and natural science.In 2013, I graduated from the joint Master’s programme of the Department of History and the Poletaev Institute for Humanities Historical and Theoretical Studies (IGITI) “History of Knowledge in Comparative Perspective” at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Since then, I have continued my research on intellectual history and the history of knowledge, particularly dealing with topics and authors related to the “long Middle Ages.” Until 2020, I worked at HSE (IGITI and the School of Philosophy), where I actively advocated for the labor rights of HSE employees. I also had an internship at the University of Pavia in the Laboratory of Medieval Studies under Professor Chiara Crisciani. I defended my PhD thesis on the anthropological ideas of the 15th-century Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino, supervised by Professor A. L. Dobrokhotov. Since 2017, I have dedicated significant effort to developing the journal Platonic Investigations / Πλατωνικὰ ζητήματα, the main academic publication of the Russian Platonic Philosophical Society, which has an international editorial board. Currently, I work at RSUH and the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, where I am involved in several projects funded by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), translating texts from ancient and vernacular European languages. I have been following the activities of Vox medii aevi since Svetlana Yatsyk, a colleague from HSE, joined the team. At her invitation, I became part of the journal’s community in 2023, although I did not actively participate in its issues until 2024. I strongly support professional and academic self-organization among colleagues, regardless of economic, national, or institutional barriers, and I am pleased to be part of such communities. I believe that the network of connections formed through these initiatives is a vital resource for improving Russian-language medieval studies and the humanities more broadly. This commitment is my primary motivation for joining Vox medii aevi.