Olga Blinova

Olga Blinova holds a doctorate in Slavic studies and is affiliated with INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations) through the CREE unit (Europe, Eurasia Research Centre). She is also an associate member of the GEO laboratory at the University of Strasbourg. Her work focuses on literature, philosophy, and art in Silver Age Russia, particularly Symbolist poetry and the first wave of Russian emigration, with a linguistic approach to literary material ranging from formalism to cognitive poetics.

Her research intersects with the GDRus areas of 'Mutations and Innovations' and 'Borders and Connections'. She has organized international conferences, including the ongoing 'Merezhkovskis and Europe' project (2021) in collaboration with Sorbonne University's EUR'ORBEM team.

Major publications include studies on Zinaida Gippius's literary and philosophical contributions, her Parisian library, and epistolary heritage. Her subfields span Russian literature, gender studies, historical context, and cognitive poetics.