Robert Bird

 

Associate Professor, The University of Chicago,

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College

 

 

1130 E. 59th St.  Chicago, Illinois  60637   Phone: 773.702.8931• Fax: 773.702.7030  bird@uchicago.edu.

 

 

 

Professional Positions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/2006-present

The University of Chicago, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the College; Associate Faculty Member in the Divinity School; Resource Faculty Member on the Committee on Cinema and Media Studies, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, the Committee on Medieval Studies, Poetics and Poetry Program.

 

Associate Professor

7/2001-6/2006

Assistant Professor

 

 

 

7/1998-6/2001

 

 

 

Dickinson College, Dept. of Russian: Assistant Professor

 

 

1995-1998

Yale University, Slavic Languages and Literatures: Teaching Fellow

 

Courses:

 

·        Introduction to Russian Literature (all periods);

·        Humanities Core Curriculum (“Human Being and Citizen”)

·        The Soviet Imaginary

·        Poetic Cinema

·        Image and Narrative in Russian Literature

·        Russian Orthodoxy and Modern Aesthetics

·        Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev

·        Narratives of Suspense in Literature and Cinema

·        Marxism and Modernism

·        Lev Tolstoy

·        Fedor Dostoevsky

·        Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

·        Russian and Polish Film 1956-present

·        The Russian Narrative Poem of the 20th Century

·        Andrei Platonov

·        The Icon in Russian Literature

·        Russia and the West: An Interdisciplinary Approach

·        Cinematic Adaptation

·        Russian and East European Film

·        The Russian Novel

·        Russian Culture

·        all levels of Russian from introductory to advanced, including literature read in the original and intensive Russian

·        Old Church Slavonic

 

 

Post-Secondary Education:

 

 

9/1992-12/1998

Ph. D.  Yale University, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures

 

Dissertation: “‘The Tender Mystery: Romanticism and Symbolism in the Poetry and Thought of Viacheslav Ivanov”; comprehensive exams passed with distinction 12/94; Dissertation graded “distinguished.”

 

Topics of study: 19th-20th century poetry and prose, Old Russian literature, literary theory, Slavic linguistics, philosophy and religious studies.

 

 

9/1988-6/1991

B. A.    University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.

Majors: Russian Language and Linguistics & Russian Area Studies.

Graduated with honors, summa cum laude. GPA: 3.96.

Thesis: “Swearwords and Prayers: Contemporary Russian Rock Poetry” (honors)..                                           

 

1986-88

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn

 

 

Certificates:

 

  • Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Summer 1994

 

  • Leningrad State University, CIEE Summer Program, Summer 1989

 

 

Books:

 

  • Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema. (Completed MS.) Under contract with Reaktion (London, UK).

 

  • The Russian Prospero: The creative universe of Viacheslav Ivanov. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 310p.

 

  • Andrei Rublev [by Andrei Tarkovsky]. London: BFI, 2004. 87p. (BFI Film Classics)

 

·        Otrazhennyi svet: Ocherki o Viach. Ivanove [The Reflected Light: Studies on V. Ivanov]. [Near completion, to be published in the series Issledovania po istorii russkoi mysli, Moscow.]

 

 

 

Volumes translated with critical apparatus:

 

  • Viacheslav Ivanov. Selected Essays. Translated and with notes by Robert Bird. Edited and with an introduction by Michael Wachtel. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001. Paperback edition: 2003. 328p.

 

  • With Boris Jakim. On Spiritual Unity: A Slavophile Anthology, Hudson, NY: Lindisfarne Press, 1998. 365p.

 

 

Volumes edited:

 

·        Viacheslav Ivanov and Mikhail Gershenzon. Perepiska iz dvukh uglov. [Correspondence from Two Corners.]. Ed. Robert Bird. Moscow: Vodolei Publishers, Progress-Pleiada, 2006. 207p. (Edition of text and extensive historical essay.)

 

  • Special Issue: Aleksej Fedorovich Losev: Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Studies in East European Thought v. 56 nos. 2-3 (2004). 249p.

 

  • With Robert L. Jackson. The proceedings of the “Eternal Memory,” a symposium on Viacheslav Ivanov, held at Yale University, 21 September 1996. Russian Literature XLIV no. 3 (1998) 277-388.

 

  • Sergius Bulgakov. Orthodoxy and Modern Society. New Haven: The Variable Press, 1995. 62p. [Collection of previously-translated essays.]

 

  • On Christian Unity: Essays by Pavel Florensky and Lev Lopatin. New Haven: The Variable Press, 1995. 60p. [Collection of previously-translated essays.

 

 

Volumes translated:

 

  • Pavel Florenskij. The Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra and Russia. New Haven: The Variable Press, 1995. 37p.

 

  • The V. P. Sukachev Museum of Art, Irkutsk. Saint-Petersburg: Ars, 1995. 241p.

 

  • The USSR Enters the World Market (50 questions and answers concerning the new procedure of export-import operations in the USSR, supplemented by the basic documents regulating such activity). Moscow: Rekma, 1990. 175p.

 

 

Articles in Refereed Journals:

 

  • “Voices of History: The Narrative Poem in Russian Modernism.” Slavic and East European Journal. Forthcoming in v. 51, no.1

 

  • “The Suspended Aesthetic: Slavoj Žižek on Kieslowski and Tarkovsky.” Studies in East European Thought. v. 56 no. 4 (2004) 357-382.

 

  • “Lyric ritual and narrative myth in Russian modernism: The case of Viacheslav Ivanov,” Genre v. 36 (Spring-Summer 2003) 83-108.

 

  • “Minding the Gap: The Concept of Detachment in Aleksej Losev’s The Dialectic of Myth.” Studies in East European Thought v. 56 nos. 2-3 (2004). 143-160.

 

  • Review essay: “Russian Philosophy as Ideology.” Slavic and East European Journal 45:3 (Fall 2001) 531-7.

 

  • “Understanding Dostoevsky: A Comparison of Russian Hermeneutic Theories,” Dostoevsky Studies: The Journal of the International Dostoevsky Society, New Series Volume V (2001) 129-46.

 

  • “Viacheslav Ivanov i sovetskaia vlast’. Neizvestnye materialy” [V. Ivanov and the Soviet Government: Unknown Materials], Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie no. 40 (1999) 305-331.

 

  • “Martin Heidegger and Russian Symbolist Philosophy,” Studies in East European Thought 51 (1999): 85-108.

 

 

Other Articles and Book Chapters:

 

  • “Voices of Silence: Antigone and Niobe in Akhmatova’s Requiem.” Festschrift Anna Lisa Crone. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, forthcoming.
  • “Torfianaia bashnia” (The Tower of Peat). Bashnia Viacheslava Ivanova i khudozhestvennaia kul'tura ee vremeni. Ed. Andrej Shishkin et al. Forthcoming.

 

  • “The Hermeneutic Triangle: Gustav Shpet’s Aesthetics in Context.” Shpet's Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory. Ed. Galin Tihanov. Purdue University Press, forthcoming.

 

  • “La forma delle cose a venire: iconoclastia e bibliomachia nei film di Andrej Tarkovskij” / “The Shape of Things to Come: Iconoclasm and Bibliomachy in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky.” Materiali di Estetica n. 12 (numero monografico dedicato a Andrej Tarkovskij, a cura di Elena Dagrada), 2005.

 

  • “Viach. Ivanov za rubezhom” [V. I. Ivanov Abroad]. Rossiiskaia emigratsiia: Istoriko-kul’turnoe nasledie i sovremennost’. Ed. S. S. Khoruzhii. Vol. 1. Forthcoming.

 

  • “Viach. Ivanov i massovye prazdnestva rannei sovetskoi epokhi”[V. Ivanov and the Early Soviet Mass Festivals]. Russkaia literatura no. 2, 2006, 174-190.

 

  • V. I. Ivanov, “K voprosu ob organizatsii tvorcheskikh sil narodnogo kollektiva v oblasti khudozhestvennogo deistva” [On the Organization of the Popular Collective’s Creative Forces in the Realm of Artistic Act], ed. Robert Bird, Russkaia literatura no. 2, 2006, 189-197.

 

  • “Russkii simvolizm i razvitie kino-estetiki: Nasledie Viach. Ivanova u A. Bakshi i Adr. Piotrovskogo.” Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie no. 2, 2006, 67-98.

 

  • “Canonizing Andrei Rublev: Aesthetics, Ideology, and the Making of a Russian Saint.” The Trinity-Sergius Lavra in Russian History and Culture. Ed. Vladimir Tsurikov. Jordanville: Holy Trinity Seminary Press, 2005: 122-140.

 

  • “Gazing into Time: Andrei Tarkovsky and Post-Modern Cinema Aesthetics.” Nostalghia.com: An Andrei Tarkovsky Information Site. February 2005. <http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Gazing.html>

 

  • “Introduction.” Studies in East European Thought v. 56 nos. 2-3 (2004). 93-4. (Special Issue: Aleksej Fedorovich Losev: Philosophy and the Human Sciences.)

 

  • With E. V. Ivanova. “Byl li vinoven Bal’mont?” [Was Bal’mont Guilty?], Russkaia literatura (St. Petersburg). No. 3 (2004) 55-85.

 

  • “Refiguring the Russian Type: Dostoevsky and the Limits of Realism.” Focus on The Brothers Karamazov. Ed. Robert L. Jackson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2004. 17-30.

 

  • “Afterword.” A. S. Khomiakov: Poet, Philosopher, Theologian. Ed. Vladimir Tsurikov. Jordanville: Holy Trinity Seminary Press. 197-202.

 

  • “The Tragedy of Russian Religious Philosophy: Sergei Bulgakov and the Future of Orthodox Theology.” Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Europe. Eds. Jonathan Sutton and Wil van den Bercken. Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2003. 211-28.

 

  • “Metropolitan Philaret and the Secular Culture of His Age.” Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow (1782-1867): Perspectives on the Man, His Works, and His Time. Jordanville, NY: Variable Press, 2003. 23-35

 

  • “Russian Writing/Writing Russia.” Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters, ed. Russell Bova. Armonk, NY; London: M.E. Sharpe, 2003. 145-76

 

  • “Bogoslovie o. Sergiia Bulgakova: Eres’ ili ereseologiia” [Sergei Bulgakov: Heresy and hereseology.] S. N. Bulgakov: religiozno-filosofskii put’. Eds. M. A. Vasil’eva and A. P. Kozyrev. Moscow, 2003. 61-78.

 

  • “Obriad i mif kak zhanrovye kategorii v russkom modernizme.” [Ritual and myth as categories of genre in Russian modernism.] Mir psikhologii. Nauchno-metodicheskii zhurnal (Moscow). No. 1. 2003: 157-163.

 

  • “Obriad i mif v pozdnei lirike Viach. Ivanova.” [Ritual and myth in V. Ivanov’s late lyric poetry.] Viacheslav Ivanov - Peterburg - mirovaia kul'tura: Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii 9-11 sentiabria 2002 g., eds. V.E.Bagno et al. Tomsk, Moscow: Vodolei Publishers, 2003. 179-93.

 

  • “V. I. Ivanov: ot romantiki k germenevtike” [Viacheslav Ivanov: from Romanticism to Hermeneutics], Viacheslav Ivanov i ego vremia: Materialy VII Mezhdunarodnogo simpoziuma, Vena 1998 [V. Ivanov and his epoch] Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002. 99-111.

 

  • “Bibliografiia russkoi filosofii na angliiskom iazyke” [Bibliography of Russian Philosophy in English], Issledovaniia po istorii russkoi mysli. Ezhegodnik za
    2001/2002 god    , ed. M.A. Kolerova. Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2002. 723-64.

 

  • “Perepiska iz dvukh uglov i ee biograficheskii kontekst” [Correspondence from Two Corners in biographical context]. Viacheslav Ivanov: Tvorchestvo i sud’ba. K 135-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia. Moscow: Nauka, 2002. 50-59.

 

  • “The Geology of Memory: Pavel Florenskii’s Hermeneutic Theology,” Pavel Florenskij: tradition und modern. Eds. N. Franz, M. Hagemeister, F. Haney. Frankfurt et al.: Peter Lang, 2001. 83-95.

 

  • “YMCA i sud’by russkoi religioznoi mysli (1906-1947)” [The YMCA and Russian Religious Thought], Issledovaniia po istorii russkoi mysli. Ezhegodnik. 2000. Moscow: OGI, 2000.  165-223.

 

  • “S. N. Bulgakov. Religioznoe sostoianie russkogo naroda” [Sergei Bulgakov’s “The Russian public and religion], edited and with an introduction by Robert Bird, Issledovaniia po istorii russkoi mysli. Ezhegodnik 2000. Moscow: OGI, 2000. 235-57.

 

  • “Kukushka i solovei: Viach. Ivanov i K. D. Bal’mont” [The Cuckoo and the Nightingale: V. Ivanov and K. Bal’mont], Europa Orientalis 19 (2000) 1-17.

 

  • “Viacheslav Ivanov v pervye gody emigratsii” [Viacheslav Ivanov in the First Years of Emigration], Philologica 3. Riga: Latviiskii universitet, 2000. 122-9.

 

  • “‘Preobrazhenie muzykoi’: Tsikl sonetov K.D. Bal’monta o Skriabine” [Konstantin Bal’mont’s Cycle of Sonnets about Scriabin], Europa Orientalis 18 (1999) 17-28.

 

  • “V. I. Ivanov i K. D. Bal’mont: tvorcheskie sviazi” [V. Ivanov and K. Bal’mont], К 125-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia Iurgisa Baltrushaitisa. Moscow: Nasledie, 1999. 74-90.

 

  • “Martin Heidegger and Nikolai Berdiaev,” Newsletter of the Society for the Study of Russian Religious Thought V no.1 (7), Spring 1999: 10-22.

 

  • “A. F. Losev i V. I. Ivanov: Korni religioznoi germenevtiki” [Aleksei Losev and Viacheslav Ivanov: The Roots of a Religious Hermeneutic], Obraz mira — struktura I tseloe. Losevskie chteniia. Moscow: 1999. 225-233.

 

  • “General Introduction.” On Spiritual Unity: A Slavophile Anthology. Ed. and trans. by Boris Jakim and Robert Bird (Hudson, NY, 1998) 7-25.

 

  • With Robert L. Jackson. “Introduction.” Russian Literature vol. XLIV (1998) 279-84.

 

  • “Viacheslav Ivanov and Theology.” Russian Literature 44.3 (1998) 357-77.

 

  • “Viacheslav Ivanov zarubezhom” [Viacheslav Ivanov Abroad], Kul’tura russkoi diaspory: samorefleksiia i samoidentifikatsiia [The Culture of the Russian Diaspora: Reflection and Identity]. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 1997. 69-86.

 

  • “Tlenie i voskresenie: istoriosofiia Viach. Ivanova” [Corruption and Resurrection: Viacheslav Ivanov’s Historiosophy], Studia Slavica (Budapest) 41 (1996). 31-44.

 

  • “Vjaceslav Ivanov in Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,” Studia Slavica (Budapest) v. 41 (1996) 311-334.

 

  • “Sergius Bulgakov and the YMCA (1906-1940),” Symposion volume 1 (1996) 93-121.

 

  • “From the Editors.” Symposion 1 (1996). 1-2.

 

  • “The Truth of the Inner Being: ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ as a Tragedy of Forgiveness,” Russian Literature 42.4 (1996) 405-410.

 

 

Encyclopedia articles:

 

·        “Vasilii Rozanov (Addendum).” Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2nd edition.  Macmillan, an imprint of Thomson Gale. 2005. 526-527

·        “Viacheslav Ivanov.” Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2nd edition.  Macmillan, an imprint of Thomson Gale. 2005. 766-768.

 

·        “Viacheslav Ivanov.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy On-line: Russian Philosophy. Ed. Aileen Kelly. <www.rep.routledge.com>

 

  • “Konstantin Balmont,” The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 295: Russian Writers of the  Silver Age, 1890-1925. Eds. Alex Ogden and Judith Kalb.  Detroit et al.: Gale, 2004. 54-62.

 

  • “Pavel Florensky,” The Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 295: Russian Writers of the  Silver Age, 1890-1925. Eds. Alex Ogden and Judith Kalb.  Detroit et al.: Gale, 2004. 142-9.

 

  • “Viacheslav Ivanov.” The Dictionary of Literary Biograph. Volume 295: Russian Writers of the  Silver Age, 1890-1925. Eds. Alex Ogden and Judith Kalb, with the collaboration of I. G. Vishnevetsky. Detroit et al.: Gale, 2004. 204-217.

 

  • “Fedor Dostoevsky,” “Nikolai Gogol,” “Viacheslav Ivanov,” “Nikolai Karamzin,” “Lev Tolstoy,” “Ivan Turgenev.” Multicultural Authors from Antiquity to 1945, eds. Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 2002. 95-100, 14-2, 238-41, 207-11, 412-6, 421-5.

 

Book Reviews

 

  • Hutchings, Stephen. Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image, London and New York, Routledge, 2004. Studies in East European Thought, forthcoming.

 

  • Nikulin, Dmitri. On Dialogue. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. Comparative Literature Studies, forthcoming.

 

  • Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel. Traditsiia pochitaniia ikon Bogomateri v Rossii glazami amerikanskogo psikhoanalitika / The Joy of All Who Sorrow: Icons of the Mother of God in Russia. Moscow: VRS, 2005. Slavic Review, forthcoming.

 

  • Cassedy, Steven. Dostoevsky’s Religion. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Journal of Religion, forthcoming.

 

  • Clowes, Edith W. Fiction’s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. Russian Review vol. 64 no. 2 (April 2005). 326-328.

 

  • Smith, G. S. D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939 (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Studies in East European Thought  v. 55 no. 4 (2003) 269-271.

 

  • Grubel, Georg Grübel. Literaturaxiologie. Zur Theorie und Geschichte des ästhetischen Wertes in slavischen Literaturen. Slavic Review 62.2 (2003) 407-9.

 

  • Rippl, Daniela. Ziznetvorcestvo oder die Vor-schrift des Textes: Eine Untersuchung zur Geschlechter-Ethik und Geschlechts-Ästhetik in der russischen Moderne (Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1999). Slavic and East European Journal 45.2 (2001) 357-9.

 

  • Esaulov, I. Kategoriia sobornosti v russkoi literature (Petrozavodsk, 1995). Canadian-American Slavic Studies v.36 no.1 (2001) 101-4.

 

  • Meerson, Michael Aksionov. The Trinity of Love in Modern Russian Theology: The Love Paradigm and the Retrieval of Western Medieval Love Mysticism in Modern Russian Trinitarian Thought (from Solovyov to Bulgakov) (Quincy, IL: Franciscan Press, 1998). Slavic and East European Journal 45.2 (2001) 373-5.

 

  • Archivio russo-italiano / Russko-ital’ianskii arkhiv. Eds. Daniela Rizzi and Andrej Shishkin. (Trento: Universita degli Studi di Trento, 1997). Europa Orientalis 17 (1998) no.1. 297-302.

 

  • Russian Religious Thought. Eds. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt and Richard Gustafson. (Madison, Wisc., 1996). Slavic and East European Journal 44.4 (1997) 705-7.

 

  • Catherine Evtuhov. The Cross and the Sickle: Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian Religious Philosophy, 1890-1920. (Ithaca, NY, 1996). Slavic and East European Journal v. 41 no. 4 (1997) 704-5.

 

  • G. S. Smith. The Letters of D. S. Mirsky to P. P. Suvchinskii, 1922-31. Birmingham Slavonic Monographs No. 26. (Birmingham: 1995). Symposion 2 (1997). 156-8

 

  • Pawel Florenski: Leben und Denken. Eds. Fritz and Sieglinde Mierau. (Ostfildern, 1995); Andrej Bely — Pawel Florenski. “…nicht anders als ueber die Seele des anderen.” Der Briefwechsel. Texte. Hg. von Fritz und Sieglinde Mierau. (Ostfildern, 1994). Symposion 2 (1997).153-5.

 

  • P. A. Florenskii i kul’tura ego vremeni. Eds. Michael Hagemeister and Nina Kauchtschwili. (Marburg, 1995). Slavic and East European Journal v. 41 no. 1 (1997). 166-7.

 

  • Pamela Davidson. Viacheslav Ivanov: a reference guide. (New York, 1996). Slavic and East European Journal v. 41 no. 1 (Spring 1997). 164-5.

 

  • Andrzej Lazari, ed. The Russian Mentality. Lexicon. Translated by Witold Liwarowski and Richard Wawro. (Katowice, 1995). Slavic and East European Journal 40.3 (1996). 583-5.

 

  • M. S. Al’tman. Besedy s Viacheslavom Ivanovym. Eds. K. IU. Lappo-Danilevskii, V. A. Dymshits. (St. Petersburg, 1995). Slavic and East European Journal vol. 40 no. 1 (Winter 1996). 759-60.

 

 

Other Translations

 

  • (Into Russian.). S.N. Bulgakov: Pro et contra. St. Petersburg : Russkii put’, forthcoming.

 

 

  • Konstantin V. Zenkin. “On the Religious Foundations of A. F. Losev’s Philosophy of Music.” Studies in East European Thought v. 56 nos. 2-3 (2004). 161-172.

 

  • Elena Takho-Godi. “Aleksej Losev’s Antiutopia.” Studies in East European Thought v. 56 nos. 2-3 (2004). 225-241.

 

  • “Tarkovsky on Andrei Rublov.” Nostalghia.com. Posted April 2004. <http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/TarkovskyonRublev.html>

 

  • With Ralph Burr. Tchaikovsky through Others’ Eyes. Ed. Alexander Poznansky. Forthcoming from Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN).

 

  • Vitalii Kovalev. “Diasophic Odysseys: Odyssey the First.” Symposion 2 (1997). 17-23.

 

  • Andrei Shishkin. “On the Literary History of the Russian Symposion.” Symposion 1 (1996). 7-17.

 

 

Awards and Honors

 

Bellagio Residential Fellowship (1 month)                                                       

NEH Summer Institute on Early Slavic Culture                                               

Franke Institute for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship (Winter/Spring)           

American Council of Learned Societies (6 months, $30,000)                          

Nominated by U of Chicago for NEH Summer Grant                                     

AATSEEL book prize for best translation into English                                    

Global Partners Project, Research Travel Grant                                              

IREX grant for Individual Advanced Research Opportunity (4 mnths) 

Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship                                                     

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Summer Fellowship                     

Enders Mini-Grant (Yale Graduate School)                                                    

Yale Council on International and Area Studies Fellowship                             

Sterling Fellowship (Yale Graduate School)                                                    

Mellon Fellow in the Humanities                                                                     

 

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University of Chicago Service

 

Dean’s Advisory Committee on Development (2006-)

Coordinator, Human Being & Citizen, Humanities Collegiate Division (2005-)

Associate Chair/Undergraduate Advisor, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures (2002-2004, 2006-)

Elder Olson Fellowship Committee (2006)

Neubauer Fellowship Committee (2006)

Dean’s Advisory Committee on Graduate Student Affairs, Division of the Humanities (2005-2006)

Dean’s Advisory Committee on a Cross-Divisional Masters Degree (2005)

Stuart Tave Fellowship Committee, Division of the Humanities (2004)

Harper Schmidt Fellow Search Committee, Division of the Humanities (2003)

Russian Literature Search Committee, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures (2003)

Faculty advisor for Slavic Forum (2002)

 

Ph. D. Committees: John Merchant, Gabrielle Cavagnaro, Alina Wyman, Ji Eun Song.

M.A. Advisor: Radoslav Borislavov, Amy Drozdowska-Maguire (MAPSS, 2005), Dan Holbrook (MAPH), Russell Backman (MAPH).

M.A. Reader: Grazyna Furman.

B. A. Advisor: Fostin Cotchin, Rachel Purkett, Mihra Rittmann, Rifka Noronha, Alex Fishman, Katherine Hill, Jan Stiff, David Willey.

 

Dickinson College Service

Judicial Board (1999-2001)

Ad-hoc committee on curriculum reform (1998-99)

Other Professional Activities

Program Committee for the 2005 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).

Member of Research Board, Centre d’études Vjatcheslav Ivanov (Rome).

Board of Advisors, Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (2003-).

Program Committee for the 2002 National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS).

Editor of XB, a newsletter on Russian philosophy (1994-2001).

Proprietor of The Variable Press, a desk-top publishing and book-distribution firm.

Organizer of “Symposium on Viacheslav Ivanov,” Yale Univ., Sept. 26, 1996.

Vice-chair of the Society for the Study of Russian Religious Thought (1998-2000).

 

Editorial Boards

Monograph series “Readings in Russian Religious Culture” (Holy Trinity Monastery, 2003-).

Book series “Malyi serebrianyi vek” (Minor poets of the Silver Age), Vodolei Publishers (Moscow, 2005-).

Journal Europa Orientalis (Rome, 2002-).

Review editor and member of Advisory Editorial Board for Studies in East European Thought (The Netherlands, 2001-)

Journal TransCultures (Idyllwild, CA, 2005-)

Consulting editor for Ideas in Russia / Idee w Rosji / Idei v Rossii: Leksykon rosyjsko-polsko-angielski, ed. Andrzej de Lazari (Lodz, 1999) 4 vols.

Co-editor and Review Editor of Symposion. A Journal of Russian Thought (1996-97).

 

Referee/Reviewer

Slavic and East European Journal

Journal of Religion

State University of New York Press

Slavica Press

Routledge.

Eerdmann’s

Indiana University Press

 

Professional Organizations

 

MLA, AATSEEL, AAASS, Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture

 

Other Professional Experience

Translator

Freelance translator from Russian to English of scholarly, technical and literary texts

Style-editor for English texts, including Tomas Venclova, Aleksander Wat (Yale UP, 1996) and Marina Kostalevsky, Dostoevsky and Soloviev (Yale UP, 1997).

Archivist Assistant

Manuscript Unit, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ.. Cataloging Russian-language materials, including rare books and manuscript collections of K. D. Bal’mont, N. N. Evreinov, B. A. Filippov, the Romanov dynasty, F. A. Stepun, and IU. K. Terapiano; writing biographical and archival descriptions for the collections (1995-).

 

Conference papers and lectures

 

“Is Love Rational?”, prepared comments