Ekaterina Velmezova

Ekaterina Valeryevna Velmezova (, ''Ekaterina Valer'yevna Vel'mezova''; ; 3 February 1973) is a Russian and Swiss philologist, professor of Slavistics and of history and epistemology of language sciences in Eastern Europe at the University of Lausanne, whose principal works concern Russian and Czech ethnolinguistics, as well as history and epistemology of language sciences in Central and Eastern Europe.

Ekaterina Velmezova published the first ever corpus of Czech incantations (Вельмезова, 2004). Her monograph about Nicholas Marr (the largest book about Marr's linguistic doctrines) describes Marr's theories in the context of the language sciences of his era.

Ekaterina Velmezova is the author of a new conception supposing analysis of linguistic theories through literary texts (Вельмезова 2014).

Ekaterina Velmezova is a member of the board of directors of the Society of History and Epistemology of Language Sciences (, Paris), official representative of Swiss Slavists at the International Committee of Slavists, a member of the board of directors of ''Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure'' (Geneva) and vice-president of the Centre for Linguistics and Language Sciences at the University of Lausanne.

Ekaterina Velmezova is poet and graphic artist. Provided by Wikipedia