Background
Maxim Sergeevitch Fomin was appointed Lecturer in Humanities at the Research Institute for Irish and Celtic Studies on 1 August 2007, having previously held the positions of Research Fellow (2006-07), Assistant Editor of eDIL project (2003-2006), Research Scholar at the Faculty of Arts at the National University of Ireland, Cork (2000-2003), and Assistant Lecturer at the Moscow State University (1998-1999). He was also a Consultant to LDT project of the Institute and Research Associate at CELT project, Department of History, University College Cork (2001-2003). He remains in a close co-operation with Supplement to eDIL project, directed by Prof. G. Toner.

EducationHe completed his PhD thesis (Early and Medieval Irish), a comparative study of early medieval Irish and early Indian kingship, in 2003. Earlier, he completed a C. Sc. Philos. dissertation (Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Culture and Religious Studies) at the Philosophical faculty, Moscow State University, in 2002, on the concept of ideal rulership in early cultures.

Research ProjectsSince 2004 he is the secretary of the Societas Celto-Slavica. He was an organising secretary of the First colloquium of the society held in Coleraine between 19-21 June 2005 and of the Second colloquium held in Moscow between 14-17 September 2006, and is currently involved in the organisation of the Third colloquium to be held in Dubrovnik between 18-20 September 2008.

He is a main investigator of the interdisciplinary research program on medieval Indian-Buddhist studies being developed with the Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and is Assistant Editor of the Irish-Indian Anthology, a reader in Indo-Celtic or Indo-Irish culture, prepared by the University of Ulster and Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi) research teams.

Research FieldsEarly Irish wisdom and legal literature, history of Irish 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 c.

Recent PublicationsBooks EditedStudia Celto-Slavica I : Parallels between Celtic and Slavic. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Links and Parallels between Celtic and Slavic Traditions (with S. Mac Mathúna) Coleraine: TSO Publishers, 2006.

Studia Celto-Slavica II: Proceedings of the Second International Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica (forthcoming March 2008, with G. Bondarenko, T. Mikhailova and S. Mac Mathúna).

The History of Electronic Text in Ireland (with P. Flynn, forthcoming).

Select Articles:['08] Bríatharthecosc Con Culainn in the Context of Early Irish Wisdom-literature (forthcoming April 2008), in R. Ó hUiginn et al., eds., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales. Maynooth.

['07] Classifications of Kings in Early Ireland and India, in Studia Celtica Fennica IV - Yearbook of the Finnish Society for Celtic Studies, University of Helsinki, 2007, pp. 31-46.

['06] Russian and Western Celticists on Similarities between Early Irish and Early Indian Traditions, in Studia Celto-Slavica I: Parallels between Celtic and Slavic, pp. 217-237.

['06] Celebrating Easter in Early Ireland. Account of Religious Conversion in Vita Sancti Patricii, in Proceedings of the First International Conference of SIEF Working Group on The Ritual Year in Association with the Department of Maltese, University of Malta Junior College, Msida, Malta, 20-24 March 2005. Malta: PEG Ltd, 2006, pp. 241-256.

['06] Digitising a Dictionary of Medieval Irish: the eDIL Project (with G. Toner), in Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2006, 21 (1), pp. 83-90

['04] Royal Instructions (Dhammanusasana) in the Chakavatti-sihanada-sutta, in India and Tibet : Collections of essays in memoriam Yu. N. Rerikh. Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura RAN Publishers, 2004, pp. 190-204.

['03] The Early Medieval Irish and Indic Polities and the Concept of Righteous Ruler, in Cosmos 15 - The Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society, University of Edinburgh, (nos. 1 & 2), 1999 (published 2003), pp. 167-202.