Dr Dmitrii Sergeev
College Research Associate
Dr Dmitrii Sergeev is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual European Fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
In 2011 he was invited research to the Laboratory for Social Anthropology of the Collège de France. In 2018 he won the Fulbright Faculty Development Program Fellowship to develop syllabus on “History of Children’s Picturebooks in the United States” at Illinois State University.
Dr Sergeev focuses on cultural meaning and its dependence on social determinants and cultural variables. He investigates how cultural devices, or cultural languages, and production of cultural texts function within an underrepresented social group. His current interest in illustrated literature with its connection to societal and cultural development stemmed from one term study at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin in 2013. He questioned the fact of the emergence of illustrated children’s literature particularly with its connection to social and historical context. This led him to develop a theory of pragmasemantic behaviour in his PhD thesis. Later Dr Sergeev linked the studies of illustrated texts and culturally underrepresented groups. His current project is ‘Evolving Attitudes toward Single Motherhood in the UK and Russia’, financially supported by the European Commission Programme.
- Theory of Pragmasemantic Behaviour
- Ontology of Cultural Meaning
- Cultural Text in Contemporary Society
- Underrepresented Groups and Semiosis
- Single Motherhood in Children’s, Young Adult and Adult Literature
Dr Sergeev has taught widely on issues relating to interpretation of cultural texts, cultural semantics, and cultural studies.
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2021-2023
- Certificate of Completion, Fulbright Scholarship Program, Washington DC, January 2019
- The Best Publication, ‘New Approach in Social Analysis’ Nomination Category, Sociological Studies Journal, 2016
- Invited Researcher, Collège de France, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, La Fondation Masion des sciences de l’homme, Paris, France, 2011
Sergeev D.V. (2020) Sociologization of Human Studies: Searching for Children’s Picturebook Definition. Sociological Studies. No 2. P. 96 -104.
Sergeev D.V. (2019) What Are We Reading? Toward A Definition of the Children’s Picturebook. Children’s Readings: Studies in Children’s Literature. 15:1. P. 400-415.
Sergeev D.V. (2016) Microsociology of Text: Factors of Pragmasemantic Behaviour Functioning. Sociological Studies. No 7. P. 92-100.
Sergeev D.V. (2015) Meaning. Behaviour. Social Strategies. Chita: TrSU Press.
Sergeev D.V. (2015) Crisis of Cultural Meaning Representation in a Contemporary Sociocultural Context. Humanitarian Vector. 42:2. P. 35-39.
Sergeev D.V. (2012) Cultural Peculiarities of Russian Society Development at the Beginning of 21st Century: Recurrent Culture, Archaization and Invented Archaic History. Universe of Russia. 21:3. P. 100-118.
Sergeev D.V. (2011) Semantic Strategies to Overcome Cultural Crisis in Social Consciousness. Russian Studies in Philosophy. No. 10. P. 28-36.
Trubitsyn D.V., Dorogavtseva I.S., Sergeev D.V. (2011) Cultural Crisis and Modernization: Tendencies of Social Consciousness Development in Today’s Russia. Novosibirsk: Science.
Sergeev D.V. (2009) Ontology of Cultural Meaning. Novosibirsk: Science.
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