Professor Maxim Fomin

Overview

Initially appointed Lecturer in Humanities in 2007, also Senior Lecturer (2013-2017) and Reader (2017-2023), Maxim Fomin was promoted to Professorship in Celtic Studies, also specialising in Digital Humanities and Irish Folklore in 2024. He is Alumnus of University College Cork (PhD Early Irish, 2003) and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), having worked at the Universities of Tübingen (2016-2017) and Leipzig (2022-2023) as visiting research fellow. Prof. Maxim Fomin teaches modules on the medieval Irish literature, Modern Irish folklore and heritage, and the Celtic traditions of continental Europe, Britain and Ireland.

Research Fields

Early Irish wisdom and legal literature, history of Irish language literary tradition, Irish folklore and calendar festivals, Celto-Slavic parallels in language, medieval narrative literature and folklore, Irish-Indian connections and cultural parallels, comparative mythology and historical poetics, comparative linguistics, digitisation and linguistic computing in Celtic Studies, bibliography of Celtic scholars in the XIXth century.

Professional Affiliations

The Learned Association Societas Celto-Slavica, Secretary, Founding Member and General Editor of Studia Celto-Slavica series, AHRC Peer-Review College Member, Irish Humanities Alliance Executive Board Member, Centre for Research in Breton and Celtic (Brest, France), Visiting Professor.

Articles

• Digital maritime trail revives heritage and boosts local tourism

Research Opportunities