Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2003- present
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Graduate study toward PhD in Art History. Working dissertation title: “Designing Russianness: Empire, Nation and Gender in Fin-de-Siècle Russian Art.” Dissertation committee: Dr. Barbara McCloskey (chair), Dr. Helena Goscilo, Dr. Kirk Savage, Dr. H. Anne Weis.  Comprehensive examinations passed November 23, 2004.  Prospectus defended April 4, 2005.

2005
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.  PhD Certificate in Cultural Studies (August).  PhD Certificate in Russian and East European Studies (April).

2001 - 2003
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. MA, Art History, April 2003. Thesis: “Mikhail Vrubel’s Fairy Tale Heroines and Identity in Fin-de-Siécle Russia.” Thesis advisor: Dr. Barbara McCloskey. Second Readers: Dr. Kirk Savage, Dr. Helena Goscilo.

1999 - 2001
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Post-baccalaureate work in Art History.

1996 - 1997
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Professional year certification program in Foreign Language Education (Russian). Certification received June 1997.

1992 - 1994; 1995 - 1996
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. MA, Russian Literature, April 1996.

1993
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Russian Summer Language Institute. Practical course in Russian.

1992
ABC Educational Centre, Moscow, Russia. Language training at St. Petersburg Department. (This program is administered through Indiana University’s Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages).

1992
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Graduate study towards MA in Russian Literature.

1991
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages. Intensive Russian language study.

1988 - 1991
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. BA, Russian Language and Literature, Psychology, December 1991.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2007
Friends of Frick Fine Arts Travel Grant for research in Washington DC, April 29-May 12 ($3000).

2006
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, 2006-2007

2005
J. William Fulbright U.S. Student Fellow 2005-2006.

2004
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Russian for the 2004-2005 academic year.

2003
Wilkinson Travel Grant to present a paper at the Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ($720).

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office Federal Work-Study Travel and Research Fund ($500).

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office Teaching Assistant Mentor for the 2003-2004 academic year.

2002
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to study German at the University of Pittsburgh in Summer 2002.

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office Federal Work-Study Travel and Research Fund ($500).

1993
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to attend the Russian Summer Language Institute at the University of Pittsburgh.

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming

“Epiphany Cathedral at Elokhovo”; “Church of Elijah the Prophet at Yaroslavl”; and “Futurism.” Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian History. eds. Bruce Adams, Edward J. Lazzerini and George N. Rhyne. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International.

2006
“Art, post-Soviet”; “Art, nonconformist”; “Abstract art (Abstraktnoe iskusstvo)”; “Bulgakova, Ol’ga”; “Chagall, Mark”; “Conceptualism”; “Folk art, Russian”; “Matveeva, Bella”; “Nakhova, Irina”; and “Romanova, Elena.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture. eds. Helena Goscilo, Karen Evans-Romaine and Tatiana Smorodinska. London: Routledge.

Translator: Irina Bakhanova et al. Gendernye aspekty v izobrazitel’nom iskusstve Severa i Tsentra Rossii/Gender Aspects of the Visual Arts of Northern and Central Russia. Moscow: Russian State University for the Humanities.

1998
“Esenin’s ‘The Coming.’” Canadian-American Slavic Studies. 32, Nos. 1-4 (1998): 333-343.

1996
“The Formation of Death Constructs in Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Il’ich and Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward.” Graduate Essays on Slavic Languages and Literatures. 9 (1996): 63 - 69.

1994
“Novellas of the Eighteenth Century: Literature in Limbo.” Graduate Essays on Slavic Languages and Literatures. 7 (1994): 23 - 31. (in Russian)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2007
TEACHING FELLOW. University of Pittsburgh. Instructor, Introduction to Architecture, Summer 2007.

2003 - 2004
TEACHING FELLOW. University of Pittsburgh. Instructor, Introduction to Art, Summer 2003. Recitation Instructor, Introduction to Art, Fall 2003. Instructor, Introduction to Modern Art Writing Practicum, Spring 2004. Instructor, Introduction to Modern Art, Summer 2004.

2001 - 2003
TEACHING ASSISTANT. University of Pittsburgh. Grader, European Visual Tradition, Fall 2001. Recitation Instructor, Introduction to Art, Spring 2002. Co-Instructor with Helena Goscilo, 20th Century Russian Art, Fall 2002. Recitation Instructor, Introduction to Modern Art, Spring 2003.

1997
INSTRUCTOR. Taught Russian Language 1 at Community College of Allegheny County.

1996 - 1999
INSTRUCTOR. Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh. Volunteer English as a Second Language instructor for émigrés from the former Soviet Union.

1996 - 1997
STUDENT TEACHER. Peabody High School, Pittsburgh, PA. Russian Language, Literature and Culture.

1996
INSTRUCTOR. University of Pittsburgh. Independent study course in Russian for a student of the Katz Business School.

1995 - 1997
TEACHING ASSISTANT. University of Pittsburgh. First Semester Russian, Fall 1995, Fall 1996. Nineteenth Century Russian Literature, Spring 1996. Russian Culture 2, Spring 1997. Second Semester Russian, Spring, 1997.

1994 - 1995
TEACHER. Taught English for the Russian private program Nadezhda in Moscow.
TEACHER. Taught English at Russian State High School Number 1054 in Moscow.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES AND LECTURES

2007

“Between Tradition and Innovation: The Art of Elena Polenova.” University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. June 26.

“Between Paris and Moscow: Mariia Iakunchikova, Elena Polenova and the Quest for Russian Art.” Slavic Forum. Chicago, IL. April 20-21.

“The Empire on Display: Mariia Iakunchikova and the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle.” Midwest Slavic Conference. Columbus, Ohio. April 12-14.

“Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Mariia Iakunchikova, Russian Art, and Modern Times.” Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN. March 28-31.

2005

“Redesigning Russianness: Art and Russian Identity 1863-1917.” University of Pittsburgh Summer Language Institute. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. June 28.

“Mikhail Vrubel's Domestic Goddess: Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel as Gesamtkunstwerk.” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Nashville, Tennessee. April 14-16.

“The Cathedral of St. Vladimir, Viktor Vasnetsov, and Russian Imperial Identity.” Midwest Slavic Conference. Columbus, Ohio. March 3-5.

2003
“Larger Than Life: Lenin and Mao Portraits in Building Socialism.” Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 10-12, 2003.

“Maria Yakunchikova and the Struggle to Forge Identity in a Foreign Context.” Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. March 13-15, 2003.

Lecture. “The Blue Rider Group and the Aims of Artistic Expression.” University of Pittsburgh, Center for West European Studies. February 12, 2003.

1996
Discussion Leader. World Affairs Council High School Student Conference: “Russia and the Former Soviet Union.” Pittsburgh, PA. November 1, 1996.

1995
“Esenin’s ‘The Coming.’“ V World Congress of Central and East European Studies. Warsaw, Poland. August 6-11, 1995.

Chair. “Emblematics of Flowers in Slavic Literatures in the Context of European Tradition.” V World Congress of Central and East European Studies. Warsaw, Poland. August 6-11, 1995.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Association of Women in Slavic Studies
College Art Association
Midwest Art History Society

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Native speaker of English.
ACTFL Oral Proficiency Rating of Superior in Russian; near-native fluency in writing skills and reading comprehension.
Reading proficiency in German and French.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

2006-2007
REPRESENTATIVE: SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES GRADUATE STUDENT ORGANIZATION.  Act as a liaison between the History of Art and Architecture Department’s Graduate Student Organization and its umbrella organization.  Chair the Grad Guide Committee.  Serve on the Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award Committee.

2006-2007
TREASURER: HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE STUDENT ORGANIZATION.  Manage the budget and accounts of said organization.

2004-2005
GRADUATE STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE.  Responsible for attending faculty meetings in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, reporting graduate student concerns to faculty, and convening graduate student meetings.  Served on the strategic planning committee.

2004-2005
COMMITTEE MEMBER. Organizing the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate Organization of Students of Europe and Central Asia’s annual conference at the University of Pittsburgh to be held February 25 and 26, 2005.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

2005
LECTURE.  “US Graduate Programs in the Humanities.”  Moscow American Center, Educational Advising Center, Russia. April 12.

2002
GALLERY ASSISTANT. Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Prigov, Phantom Installations, April 29 - May 4, University Art Gallery. Translated artist’s texts from Russian, assisted with interpretation during Prigov’s visit, assisted with installation and deinstallation, prepared labels and literature, monitored gallery attendance, opened and closed gallery, and handled various administrative tasks.

1996 - 1997
TRANSLATOR. Translated a wide variety of documents for the international consulting firm Tequip Company, Inc. and the US Marine Corps.

1994 - 1995
EDITOR. MAIK/Nauka Interperiodica Publishing, Moscow. Chief Language Editor of the Doklady of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Edited and oversaw the production of the English translation of the following journals: Doklady Biochemistry, Doklady Biophysics, Doklady Biology, Doklady Botanical Sciences, Doklady Chemistry, Doklady Physical Chemistry, Doklady Mathematics, and The Russian Journal of Biochemistry.