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Curriculum Vitae 2004

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Oleg Minin

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California, LA
Taper Hall of the Humanities 408
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Tel: (213) 740 - 2735
Fax: (213) 740 - 8550
Email: minine@usc.edu
http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/oleg_minine.htm

Education
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• PhD Candidate, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
• Master of Arts - Russian Literature, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1993-1995.
  Thesis title: “A. Schopenhauer and F. Dostoevsky: Some Philosophical and Literary Parallels.”
  Academic advisor: Professor A. Zweers.
• Batchelor of Arts, Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada, 1991-1993.
• International Baccalaureate, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria, B.C. Canada, 1988-1990.
• Tyumen State University, Russian Federation: Faculty of Linguistics, 1982-1984
                                                                         Faculty of Law, 1986-1988.

 

Teaching and Professional Experience
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September 2004 - present:

Position: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Teaching responsibilities:

• Teaching First Year Russian Language Course.

April – June 2004:

Position: Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California, Riverside, USA.

Teaching responsibilities:

• Teaching Russian 3 (2d year Russian) and European Culture 47: Introduction to Russian Culture.

February 3, 5 2004:

Position: Substitute Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Teaching responsibilities:

• Teaching two undergraduate Russian art history classes – Romanticism in Russian Art ad Literature: Kiprensky/Pushkin, Ivanov/Gogol, Briullov and Venetsianov.

September 2002 - April 2003:

Position: Assistant Lecturer and Teaching Assistant, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Teaching responsibilities:

• Teaching First Year Russian Language Course.
• Assisting Dr. John Bowlt with the Thematic Options class “Modern Russian Art: Russian Art of the Late 19th and 20th Centuries.”

September 1998 - May 2001:

Position: Instructor, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Victoria, BC, Canada.

Teaching responsibilities:

Russian Literature:

• Russian and Soviet Literary Classics (Pushkin, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pasternak, Babel, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn);
• Seminar in Chekhov’s fiction and drama.

History and Culture:

• Aspects of Russian Medieval, Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet history and culture.

Russian Language:

• First, second, third and fourth year Russian language undergraduate courses;
• First and Second year Russian language laboratory.

Literature, history and culture courses taught in English:

• Russian 308 A&B (Russian Literature of the 19th c. and Russian/Soviet Literature of the 20th centuries);
• Russian 301 A&B (History of Russian and Soviet Culture);
• Russian 312 (Readings in Chekhov).

Russian Language Courses taught:

• Russian 100 (First Year Russian),
• Russian 200 (Second Year Russian),
• Russian 302 and 303 (Third Year Advanced Russian Language Practice)
• Russian 406 (Fourth Year Russian Grammar).

September 1993 - May 1995:

Position: Research and Teaching Assistant, University of Waterloo, Dept. of Slavic and Germanic Language and Literatures, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Teaching responsibilities:

• Taught 4th year Russian 20th c. Poetry class (Sept.-April);
• Research assistant to Dr. Heier, Department of Slavic and Germanic Languages and Literatures;
• Teaching First Year Russia (Russian 101) during the summer semester.

September - January 1992:

Position: Instructor, Camosun College, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

Teaching responsibilities:

• Beginner Russian language course.

September 1990 - January 1991:

Russian Language Computer Lab Counselor: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

 

Languages ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Fluent: English and Russian.
Reading: German, French.
Some spoken: German, French, Greek.

 

Conference Appearances, Paper Presentations and Public lectures ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

April 16, 2004 Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California.

Guest lecture: Iakov Chernikhov: The Magic of a Paradox (Creative legacy of the Soviet artist-architect revisited).

April 24, 2004 Slavic Graduate Student Colloquium, UCLA

Paper presentation: “Pavel Filonov’s “A Sermon-Chant of Universal Flowering”: The Enigma of Literary Experimentation and the Ambiguity of Genre.”

December 28, 2003 AATSEEL 2003: The Literary and the Visual I: The Russian Avant-Garde.

Conference paper: “The Grotesque in the Literary and Visual Output of the Russian Satirical Weekly Journal Satirikon.”

January 2000

“Chekhov’s “The Seagull” in the Context of the Writer’s Life and Work.”
Opening lecture for the Phoenix Theatre’s première of Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

May 1, 1998

“The Art of Russian Icon Painting: History and Technique.”
Art class guest lecture. Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria, B.C., Canada; University of Victoria, B.C., Canada; Central, Oak Bay and Victoria High Schools, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

March 31st, 1998

“Russia: Current Political, Economic and Cultural Trends.”
Guest lecture for Russian Culture Course (Russ. 301B), Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

 

Publication
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Notes on Art in Russia, NFS Art Magazine, Xchanges Gallery, Spring 1997.

 

Book reviews
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A. Donskov, T. Nikiforova, J. Woodsworth. Sergei Tolstoy and the Doukhobors: A Journey to Canada (Diary and Correspondence), Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. XLI, No. 2, June 1999.

 

Academic Research
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The Getty Research Institute, the Getty Centre, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

University of Southern California Archives, Special Collections, USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

The George Costakis Collection of the Russian Avant-Garde Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessalonica, Greece.

 

Current research projects
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“The Grotesque in the Literary and Visual Output of the Russian Satirical Weekly Journal Satirikon.”
“Nikolai Remizov and the Art of Caricature.”
“Nikolai Remizov in Hollywood.”
“Literary and Artistic Polemics of the Second Decade of the 20th Century: A Critical Reception of the Futurist Poetry and Art in Russia, 1912-1919.”
“The Art of Costume Design in the Context of Russian Turn of the Century Dance Culture, 1909-1923.”
“Pavel Filonov’s “A Sermon-Chant of Universal Flowering.”

 

Current and Past Projects at the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California
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Russian Symbolist artist Nikolai Konstantinovich Kalmakov (1873-1955): bibliographic research.
Ojai Retreat Russian Cultural Event: Recital of Akhmatova’s and Tsvetaetva’s poetry. (September, 2003)
New Regional Museum Guide Cataloguing Project.
Distance Learning Project in conjunction with the USC Annenberg Center for Communication (2002 - present)

 

Honors and Awards
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June 2004
Strategic

September 2001
College Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

June 1995
Government of Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

June 1993
University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

May 1993
B.A. with Honors, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

Sept. 1993
University of Victoria Bursary, UVIC, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

Nov.1988
Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria, B.C. Canada: Full Two Year Scholarship.

Volunteer Work ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sept. 2001 – present
Youth sports volunteer coach, Pasadena Maple Leafs.

Oct. 1993
Translator and assistant to Dr. Krylov (St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, Russia), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Summer 1993
Youth sports coach, Victoria International Hockey School, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

May 1991
Public Relations Representative for Victoria Hosts to the Soviet Olympic Hockey Club. B.C. Cup Hockey Tournament, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

1988-1989
Worked with mentally handicapped as part of the social service program at the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Nigel House, Victoria, B.C. Canada.

 

Other professional interests: Easel Painting

Solo and Group exhibitions:
Martin Batchelor’s Gallery, Victoria, B.C. Canada, November, 1997.
Ocean Point Resort, Victoria, B.C. Canada, November, 1997.
Studio “A,” Victoria, B.C. Canada, May, 1997.
Paisanidis Art Gallery, Ierapetra, Crete, Greece, June – July, 1996.
Gallery 1248, Victoria, B.C. Canada, February, 1999.
Herald Street Centre for the Arts, Victoria, B.C. Canada, January, 1999.
“I” for Immigrant Art Show, Eaton Centre, Victoria, B.C. Canada, December, 1998, 1999.
“Periphery” Art Exhibition, Brentwood Bay, B.C. Canada, July, 1998.
Honduras Society Art Show, Saanichton Exhibition Grounds, Saanichton, B.C. Canada, November 1997.
“Emerging Artists” Art Exhibition, Old School House Gallery, Qualicum Beach, B.C. Canada, May – June, 1997.