Dr. Polina Vasineva

Office hours

By appointment and registration via email

Links

• Personal webpage and CV: https://vasineva.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polina-vasineva-855a36367/

Research Areas 

• Philosophy of Education
• History of Philosophy

Experience

• 2025 - present: Research Associate at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2024: Visiting Scholar at Cornell University
• 2023: Research Fellow at Bielefeld University
• 2015-2022: Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor (Docent) at Herzen University
• 2011-2015: PhD in Philosophy (Candidate of Science) at Herzen University

Memberships and Affiliations

• Center for Independent Social Research, USA (Since 2024)
• British Association for Romantic Studies, UK (Since 2023)
• The Philosophy of Education Society, USA (Since 2022)

Recent Events

• European Seminars in Philosophy of Education (ESPE),  July 3-4, 2025, Utrecht.
  "The Romantic Concept of Bildungstrieb and Systemic Indoctrination," symposium presentation.
• Education and Social Critique - Critical Theory and Philosophy of Education in Dialogue, June 26-28, 2025, Eichstätt.
  "Teachers' Autonomy and the 'Politics of Loneliness' in Systemic Indoctrination,"
  presentation co-authored with Dr. Fedor Korochkin.
• Education and the Future of the Future, Philosophy of Education Society, March 6-10, 2025, Baltimore, MD.
  "Systemic Indoctrination and the Politics of Loneliness in Non-Democratic Education,"
  presentation co-authored with Dr. Fedor Korochkin.
• Information, Misinformation and Disinformation, Philosophy of Education Society, March 7-11, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT.
  presentation: "Political Alienation in Anti-Democratic Education."
• Democratic Education in Undemocratic Times, Philosophy of Education Society, March 3-6, 2024, Chicago, IL
  "Digital Education in Undemocratic Times: Four Romantic Ideals of Bildung Which We Need Today,"
  presentation co-authored with Dr. Fedor Korochkin.
• Orientation Strategies in Apparatgeist Era: Romantic Ideals of Bildung and Modern Education, July 19, 2022, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, guest lecture, with Dr. Fedor Korochkin.

Selected Publications

• Vasineva, P., & Korochkin, F. (Forthcoming). Systemic Indoctrination and the Politics of Loneliness in Non-Democratic Education. Philosophy of Education, 81.
• Vasineva, P. (2024). Political Alienation in Anti-Democratic Education. Philosophy of Education, 80(1), 120–132. https://doi.org/10.47925/80.1.120
• Vasineva, P., & Korochkin, F. (2024). The Unity of Nature and Mind: Hölderlin, Novalis and Schelling on a New Mythology and the Absolute. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 17(4), 632–641. http://journal.sfu-kras.ru/en/article/152824
• Vasineva, P., & Korochkin, F. (2022). Orientation Strategies at Apparatgeist era: Distributed Cognition and Romantic Ideals of Education. Wisdom, 4(3), 57–64. doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v4i3.795
• Vasineva, P. (2017). The Myth and the Myth-Making through the Early German Philosophy of Romanticism [In Russian]. Scientific and Technical Bulletins of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. Humanities and Social Sciences, 8(1), 80–83. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=29333387
• Vasineva, P. (2015). The Concept of the Loneliness through the Romantic Spiritual Dimension [In Russian]. Scientific and Technical Bulletins of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(232), 93–98. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=25614650   
• Vasineva, P. (2013). The Concepts of “Hero” and “Universal Personality” in Antiquity and Early German Romanticism [In Russian]. Society. Environment. Development, 4(29), 194–197. https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=21245104

 Work in Progress

• Vasineva, P. (n.d.). Philosophical education and political alienation [Chapter, provisional title]. In K. Westphal & M. Addis (Eds.), Educating philosophers: A handbook of best practice.