Curriculum Vitae
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012– Professor of Russian Literature and Film
Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University
2009–2012 Associate Professor, tenured
Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University
2006–2009 Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University
2004–2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and
Literatures, The George Washington University
2005–2006 Adjunct Assistant Professor, American University,
Washington, D.C. Department of Languages and Foreign Studies
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Summa Cum Laude. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Slavic Studies, 2002
Dissertation: “Poetics of Urbanism in the Writings of Vladimir Nabokov” (Advisers: Prof. Roman Timenchik, Prof. Elena Tolstoy)
Ph.D. (ABD). University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Department of Slavic Studies, with concentration in visual studies,
2001–2004
M.A., M.Phil. with honors. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Slavic Studies, 1998
B.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of English Literature; Department of Slavic Studies, 1996
GRANTS AND AWARDS
(Over $150,000 in research grants since 2007)
2013 FASS Publication Fund Award ($2,750)
2012 Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, Warsaw (Poland, July 2-11, 2012)
2011-2014 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals (total amount granted: $38,742)
2011-2013 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (IDG), entitled “Studying Literature
in a Digital Environment: New media and information systems
strategies,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(total amount granted: $66,490)
2012 FASS Book Subvention Fund ($3,000)
2010 Filming a documentary about the poet Joseph Brodsky (The Nobel Prize in
Literature, 1987). Subvention from the Vice President-Research Office,
Dalhousie University ($2,000)
2009-2010 The Burgess Award (Research stipend to cover a course
release: approx. $5,000), FASS, Dalhousie University.
2009-2010 Teaching and Learning with Technology Grant – “The Gift Project,”
Stage II ($2,000), Dalhousie University
2007-2010 SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research
Grant), “Becoming a Great Writer” ($43,510)
2008-2009 Teaching and Learning with Technology Grant – “The Gift Project: Visual
Commentary and Concordance” ($1,800), Dalhousie University
2009 Publication Subvention, VP-Research Office, Dalhousie University
($2,000)
2006 Nominated for the GW President J. Trachtenberg Teaching Prize.
2005 Awarded the title of GW Luminary in recognition of the scholarly contribution
within the area of study
2004 Book “Train Station – Garage – Hangar” short-listed for Andrey Bely Literary
Prize in Russia
2003 Summer Research Grant. University of Southern California, College of Letters,
Arts and Sciences ($2,500)
2002 A Book Subvention. University of Southern California, Slavic department ($,1500)
2002 GPSS Travel Grant. Graduate Professional Student Senate ($1,500)
2001 The Golda Meir Award for the outstanding scholars
(Honorary International Chairmen of the Foundation include Dr. Henry Kissinger,
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, and Gregory Peck)
2000 Award from The Luxemburg Foundation
1999 Award from The Mathew Ginsbourg Foundation
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Courses taught at Dalhousie since 2006:
Courses taught at GWU in 2004-2006:
· Russian Poetry of the XX c. [Taught in Russian]. Spring 2006.
· Russia Today: Advanced Russian. Fall and Spring 2005/06.
· Russian Prose of the XX c. [Taught in Russian]. Fall 2005.
· Contemporary Russian Literature: From WWII to Postmodernism. Spring 2005.
· Russian Culture since 1825. Spring 2005.
· Introduction to Russian Literature (II): From Dostoevsky to Babel. Spring 2005.
· Introduction to Russian Cinema. Fall 2004.
· Russian Culture to 1825. Fall 2004.
· Introduction to Russian Literature (I): From Pushkin to Tolstoy. Fall 2004.
Courses taught at AU in 2005-2006:
· Russian Culture and Civilization. Spring 2006.
· Intermediate Russian. Fall 2005.
Courses and administrative experience at USC in 2001-2004:
· Elementary Russian II. Fall 2003. Organized Russian Culture Club activities, Film Screening (including the visits on campus of participating actors and producers).
· USC Overseas Summer Russian Language Program. Academy of Social Management and Business Administration. Moscow, Russia, June 20 – July 15, 2003.
· Judge at Russian Language Olympiad for children of California (San Diego, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Santa Monica) organized by the Language Center of University of Southern California in association with Slavic Languages and Literatures department of USC, April 5, 2003.
· Advanced Russian. Spring 2003.
· Intermediate Russian. Spring 2003. Organized Russian Table and social events on campus.
· Russian Thought and Civilization. Fall 2002.
· Intermediate Russian & Individualized Instruction. Spring 2002.
· Concepts and Symbolic Systems: Russian Avant-Garde. Thematic Option Program. Fall 2001.
SERVICE
2013 Commissioned reviewer of the book manuscript submitted to the Bloomsbury Publishing House (New York – London); peer review of the article submission for AvtobiografiЯ: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture (Padova University Press);
2012 Chair of the organizing committee for the international cultural festival “Exploring Russia in Nova Scotia” (Supported by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada and by the President’s Office of Dalhousie University)
2012 The FASS Online Journals Fund Committee, Member
2011 Search Committee for the instructor of Chinese Culture position, Member
2011 Search Committee for the Visiting Asst. Professor in Russian History position, Dalhousie University, Member
2010 Search Committee for the Instructorship position in Russian Language, Chair
2009 - Coordinator, Intensive Russian Program in St. Petersburg, Russia
2009-10 Chair of the Committee for 65th Anniversary Celebrations of the Russian Program at Dalhousie
2008 Search Committee for the Assistant Deanship Student Matters, FASS, Chair
2009 Search Committee for the Acting Deanship of FASS Committee, Chair
2009 Chair for the Panel: “Guide for the Perplexed: Faculty Workshop on Anti-Israel Activities on Campus.” CAFI Conference, Emerging Trends in Anti-Semitism and Campus Discourse. Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. March 9, 2009
2008 Co-Organizer of two panels on “Marketing Literature and Posthumous Legacies” at AATSEEL Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA. 29 December, 2008
2007 - Outside Referee, University of Toronto Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Canadian Slavonic Papers; New Literary Observer; Russkii Put’ [Russian Way]
2008-2013 Council of Chairs, FASS, Member
2008-2013 Chair, Department of Russian Studies
(two consecutive terms)
2007-08 Research Development Committee, FASS, Member
2007-08 Information and Technology Committee, FASS, Member
2007-08 Organizer of the research seminar series under the title “Poetics, History, Evolution” (focused on a variety of interdisciplinary topics, it included ten speakers during the academic year)
2008 “Reflections on Crisis, Change and Conscience in Russian Literature,” Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Congress. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Chair of the panel
2007 Search Committee for the Russian Studies Sabbatical Replacement, Chair
2007 Commissioned reviewer of the manuscript submitted to the University of Toronto Press
2006 Search Committee for the Instructorship position in Russian Language, Pedagogy, and CALL technology, Department of Russian Studies; Member
2005 ‘Soviet Cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s,’ AATSEEL, Washington, DC. Chair of the panel
2005 Exhibition Curator and Organizer: “Nabokov’s LOLITA: 1955 – 2005. Celebrating 50 years.” Washington, DC, April 1 – July 31
2004 Representative in the Gelman Library Committee of the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, George Washington University
2004 Business Language Program development. Language Center, USC. Spring semester
2003-2004 Editor and translator of the Summary section in English. NLO (New Literary Observer, Moscow)
2001- Member of the Editorial staff. The Plexus (Literary journal published in Moscow and Jerusalem)
2001 Member of the Editorial staff, compiler. Catching One's Bearings In the Land. Russian-Israeli Literature of the 1990s: Anthology. Jerusalem: Aliah, 2001. (Poetic and prosaic anthology)
1998-1999 Editor-in-Chief: Our Scopus. The Quarterly Student Magazine. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1998-1999 Vice Editor-in-Chief: Jerusalem Russian-Jewish Herald. Publication of the Russian Jewry Abroad Academic Center
1998 Section editor: Russian-Jewish literature of the 20th century. Jews in the Russian Culture Abroad, Ed. M. Parkhomovsky. Vol. I (VI). Jerusalem, Israel
SERVICE IN THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Nabokov Online Journal (Founding Editor, 2007 – , An International Electronic Peer-Reviewed Journal, supported by Dalhousie University)
Germano-Slavica: A Canadian Journal of Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives, 2008 – (Member of the Editorial Board, University of Waterloo)
Solar Plexus [Solnechnoe spletenie] (Member of the Editorial Board, Russia/Israel)
Philology and Man [Filologia i chelovek] ( Member of the Editorial Board, Russia)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
CAS [Canadian Association of Slavists]
AATSEEL [American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages]
AASEES [American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies]
IVNS [International Vladimir Nabokov Society]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012– Professor of Russian Literature and Film
Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University
2009–2012 Associate Professor, tenured
Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University
2006–2009 Assistant Professor of Russian
Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University
2004–2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Romance, German and Slavic Languages and
Literatures, The George Washington University
2005–2006 Adjunct Assistant Professor, American University,
Washington, D.C. Department of Languages and Foreign Studies
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Summa Cum Laude. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Slavic Studies, 2002
Dissertation: “Poetics of Urbanism in the Writings of Vladimir Nabokov” (Advisers: Prof. Roman Timenchik, Prof. Elena Tolstoy)
Ph.D. (ABD). University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Department of Slavic Studies, with concentration in visual studies,
2001–2004
M.A., M.Phil. with honors. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Slavic Studies, 1998
B.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of English Literature; Department of Slavic Studies, 1996
GRANTS AND AWARDS
(Over $150,000 in research grants since 2007)
2013 FASS Publication Fund Award ($2,750)
2012 Nahum Goldmann Fellowship, Warsaw (Poland, July 2-11, 2012)
2011-2014 SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals (total amount granted: $38,742)
2011-2013 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (IDG), entitled “Studying Literature
in a Digital Environment: New media and information systems
strategies,” Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(total amount granted: $66,490)
2012 FASS Book Subvention Fund ($3,000)
2010 Filming a documentary about the poet Joseph Brodsky (The Nobel Prize in
Literature, 1987). Subvention from the Vice President-Research Office,
Dalhousie University ($2,000)
2009-2010 The Burgess Award (Research stipend to cover a course
release: approx. $5,000), FASS, Dalhousie University.
2009-2010 Teaching and Learning with Technology Grant – “The Gift Project,”
Stage II ($2,000), Dalhousie University
2007-2010 SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research
Grant), “Becoming a Great Writer” ($43,510)
2008-2009 Teaching and Learning with Technology Grant – “The Gift Project: Visual
Commentary and Concordance” ($1,800), Dalhousie University
2009 Publication Subvention, VP-Research Office, Dalhousie University
($2,000)
2006 Nominated for the GW President J. Trachtenberg Teaching Prize.
2005 Awarded the title of GW Luminary in recognition of the scholarly contribution
within the area of study
2004 Book “Train Station – Garage – Hangar” short-listed for Andrey Bely Literary
Prize in Russia
2003 Summer Research Grant. University of Southern California, College of Letters,
Arts and Sciences ($2,500)
2002 A Book Subvention. University of Southern California, Slavic department ($,1500)
2002 GPSS Travel Grant. Graduate Professional Student Senate ($1,500)
2001 The Golda Meir Award for the outstanding scholars
(Honorary International Chairmen of the Foundation include Dr. Henry Kissinger,
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, and Gregory Peck)
2000 Award from The Luxemburg Foundation
1999 Award from The Mathew Ginsbourg Foundation
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Courses taught at Dalhousie since 2006:
- East European Cinema: War, Love, and Revolutions (cross-listed with the Theatre department/Film Studies program)
- Russian Film I: 1900-1953 (cross-listed with the Theatre department/Film Studies program)
- Russian Film II: 1953-2008 (cross-listed with the Theatre department/Film Studies program)
- Russian Literature and Culture since Stalin’s Death
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Contemporary Russian Culture
- Masterpieces of Russian Short Fiction
- Survey of Russian Literature
- Modern Russian Culture and Civilization
- Nabokov (cross-listed with the English department)
Courses taught at GWU in 2004-2006:
· Russian Poetry of the XX c. [Taught in Russian]. Spring 2006.
· Russia Today: Advanced Russian. Fall and Spring 2005/06.
· Russian Prose of the XX c. [Taught in Russian]. Fall 2005.
· Contemporary Russian Literature: From WWII to Postmodernism. Spring 2005.
· Russian Culture since 1825. Spring 2005.
· Introduction to Russian Literature (II): From Dostoevsky to Babel. Spring 2005.
· Introduction to Russian Cinema. Fall 2004.
· Russian Culture to 1825. Fall 2004.
· Introduction to Russian Literature (I): From Pushkin to Tolstoy. Fall 2004.
Courses taught at AU in 2005-2006:
· Russian Culture and Civilization. Spring 2006.
· Intermediate Russian. Fall 2005.
Courses and administrative experience at USC in 2001-2004:
· Elementary Russian II. Fall 2003. Organized Russian Culture Club activities, Film Screening (including the visits on campus of participating actors and producers).
· USC Overseas Summer Russian Language Program. Academy of Social Management and Business Administration. Moscow, Russia, June 20 – July 15, 2003.
· Judge at Russian Language Olympiad for children of California (San Diego, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Santa Monica) organized by the Language Center of University of Southern California in association with Slavic Languages and Literatures department of USC, April 5, 2003.
· Advanced Russian. Spring 2003.
· Intermediate Russian. Spring 2003. Organized Russian Table and social events on campus.
· Russian Thought and Civilization. Fall 2002.
· Intermediate Russian & Individualized Instruction. Spring 2002.
· Concepts and Symbolic Systems: Russian Avant-Garde. Thematic Option Program. Fall 2001.
SERVICE
2013 Commissioned reviewer of the book manuscript submitted to the Bloomsbury Publishing House (New York – London); peer review of the article submission for AvtobiografiЯ: Journal on Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture (Padova University Press);
2012 Chair of the organizing committee for the international cultural festival “Exploring Russia in Nova Scotia” (Supported by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Canada and by the President’s Office of Dalhousie University)
2012 The FASS Online Journals Fund Committee, Member
2011 Search Committee for the instructor of Chinese Culture position, Member
2011 Search Committee for the Visiting Asst. Professor in Russian History position, Dalhousie University, Member
2010 Search Committee for the Instructorship position in Russian Language, Chair
2009 - Coordinator, Intensive Russian Program in St. Petersburg, Russia
2009-10 Chair of the Committee for 65th Anniversary Celebrations of the Russian Program at Dalhousie
2008 Search Committee for the Assistant Deanship Student Matters, FASS, Chair
2009 Search Committee for the Acting Deanship of FASS Committee, Chair
2009 Chair for the Panel: “Guide for the Perplexed: Faculty Workshop on Anti-Israel Activities on Campus.” CAFI Conference, Emerging Trends in Anti-Semitism and Campus Discourse. Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. March 9, 2009
2008 Co-Organizer of two panels on “Marketing Literature and Posthumous Legacies” at AATSEEL Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA. 29 December, 2008
2007 - Outside Referee, University of Toronto Press; Palgrave Macmillan; Canadian Slavonic Papers; New Literary Observer; Russkii Put’ [Russian Way]
2008-2013 Council of Chairs, FASS, Member
2008-2013 Chair, Department of Russian Studies
(two consecutive terms)
2007-08 Research Development Committee, FASS, Member
2007-08 Information and Technology Committee, FASS, Member
2007-08 Organizer of the research seminar series under the title “Poetics, History, Evolution” (focused on a variety of interdisciplinary topics, it included ten speakers during the academic year)
2008 “Reflections on Crisis, Change and Conscience in Russian Literature,” Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Congress. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Chair of the panel
2007 Search Committee for the Russian Studies Sabbatical Replacement, Chair
2007 Commissioned reviewer of the manuscript submitted to the University of Toronto Press
2006 Search Committee for the Instructorship position in Russian Language, Pedagogy, and CALL technology, Department of Russian Studies; Member
2005 ‘Soviet Cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s,’ AATSEEL, Washington, DC. Chair of the panel
2005 Exhibition Curator and Organizer: “Nabokov’s LOLITA: 1955 – 2005. Celebrating 50 years.” Washington, DC, April 1 – July 31
2004 Representative in the Gelman Library Committee of the Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, George Washington University
2004 Business Language Program development. Language Center, USC. Spring semester
2003-2004 Editor and translator of the Summary section in English. NLO (New Literary Observer, Moscow)
2001- Member of the Editorial staff. The Plexus (Literary journal published in Moscow and Jerusalem)
2001 Member of the Editorial staff, compiler. Catching One's Bearings In the Land. Russian-Israeli Literature of the 1990s: Anthology. Jerusalem: Aliah, 2001. (Poetic and prosaic anthology)
1998-1999 Editor-in-Chief: Our Scopus. The Quarterly Student Magazine. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1998-1999 Vice Editor-in-Chief: Jerusalem Russian-Jewish Herald. Publication of the Russian Jewry Abroad Academic Center
1998 Section editor: Russian-Jewish literature of the 20th century. Jews in the Russian Culture Abroad, Ed. M. Parkhomovsky. Vol. I (VI). Jerusalem, Israel
SERVICE IN THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Nabokov Online Journal (Founding Editor, 2007 – , An International Electronic Peer-Reviewed Journal, supported by Dalhousie University)
Germano-Slavica: A Canadian Journal of Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives, 2008 – (Member of the Editorial Board, University of Waterloo)
Solar Plexus [Solnechnoe spletenie] (Member of the Editorial Board, Russia/Israel)
Philology and Man [Filologia i chelovek] ( Member of the Editorial Board, Russia)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
CAS [Canadian Association of Slavists]
AATSEEL [American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages]
AASEES [American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies]
IVNS [International Vladimir Nabokov Society]