Maxim Fomin

Professor Maxim Fomin is an academic at Ulster University, holding the position of Professor of Celtic Studies, Digital Humanities & Irish Folklore within the School of Arts & Humanities. He is based at the Derry~Londonderry campus in Room MA019, and his contact includes the Irish and Celtic Studies Research group (+44 28 7167 5213).

Education:

• Masters in Philosophy from Moscow State University (1998)
• PhD research in Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork (2000-2003)

Research Interests: Fomin specializes in Early Irish wisdom literature, legal texts, and the history of the Irish language literary tradition. His work explores Irish folklore, calendar festivals, and cross-cultural connections such as Celto-Slavic linguistic parallels and Irish-Indian cultural parallels. He also focuses on comparative mythology, historical poetics, and the application of digital humanities methodologies like digitisation and linguistic computing in Celtic Studies. Additionally, he studies 19th-century Celtic scholars' bibliography.

Professional Affiliations: He serves as Secretary of Societas Celto-Slavica, Founding Member and General Editor of the Studia Celto-Slavica series, and is a member of the AHRC Peer-Review College and the Irish Humanities Alliance Executive Board. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Research in Breton and Celtic (Brest, France).

Advising & Grants: No advisees or grant details are explicitly listed in the provided text.

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Centre for Research in Breton and Celtic in Brest, France, and contributes to Ulster University's Irish and Celtic Studies Research group.