YULIYA VOLKHONOVYCH
volkhono@usc.edu
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SUMMARY
My objectives are to complete Ph. D in Slavic Languages and Literatures, to teach at the university level, to pursue the research on Slavic culture and to continue my activities as a theatre director and producer of documentaries relating to arts and culture. I am a highly creative self-starter with an engaging personality as well as verbal and writing skills in Russian, Ukrainian and English.

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. program – Slavic Languages and Literatures – University of Southern California, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Los Angeles CA, fall 2003-Present.
• Focus on 20th century theatre and ballet.

M.A. – Slavic Languages and Literatures – University of Southern California, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Los Angeles CA, 2003-2005.

M.A.–Theatre and Performance Studies – University of Pittsburgh, Department of Theatre Arts, Pittsburgh PA, 2001- 2003

M.A. – Media Studies – Ohio University, School of Telecommunications, Athens OH, 1999-2001

B.A. with honors (equivalent) – Theatre Studies – State Institute of Theatre Art, Kiev, Ukraine, 1996 Thesis: Kiev’s Period of Bronislava Nijinska. Advisor: Dr. Dmitriy Gorbachev

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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

PBS Frontline/World, Los Angeles 2005
Associate Producer
•Assisted in the production of the 20-minute documentary "Murder in Kyiv" focused on the Georgy Gongadze's case.

Ukrainian Broadcasting Television Corporation (UTAR), Kiev, Ukraine 1995 -1999
Producer
• Developed and produced a unique weekly 30-minute television program focused on the arts which has become the leading cultural program in the metropolitan area of Kiev.

• Worked as a television news reporter covering cultural and social issues.

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PUBLICATIONS

"That American Girl: Helen Huntington Hooker, in Pavel Filonov: Seer of the Invisible. Catalogue of exhibition at the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Palace Editions, 2006): 105-107. View the article in PDF (in English)

"Источники и смыслы филоновской Пропевени о проросли мировой" Experiment/ Эксперимент, 11 (2005): 107-124. (Special issue devoted to Pavel Filonov).

View artciles in periodicals (in Russian)

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GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

• USC Strategic Summer Grant, 2004
• USC College Merit Award, 2003
• Edmund S. Maskie/Freedom Support Act (FSA) Graduate Fellowship, 1999
• Central European University Summer School Scholarship, 1999
• Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and International Renaissance Scholarship, 1997

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Teaching Assistant – Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC; “Russian Thought and Civilization,” fall 2004, fall 2005.

Language Instructor– Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, USC; “Russian For Native Speakers,” spring 2005, spring 2006.

Teaching Assistant – Department of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh; taught “Introduction to Theatre Arts,” 2001-2002; “Introduction to Performance,” 2003.

Research Assistant – Department of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh; developing study guides for “Shakespeare-in-the-Schools” Outreach Program, 2001-2002.

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PAPER PRESENTATION

“Urusova's Iroidy muzam posvyaschennye:Gender and Genre"– California Slavic Colloqium – USC, Los Angeles, 2006.

"Debates on Russian Decadence in Vesy" – The 29th Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference – Fordham University, NYC, 2006.

"A French Cousin of Van'ka-Kluchnik: On the Origins of Sologub's Play
"Van'ka-Kluchnik i pazh Zhean" – The VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies – Berlin, Germany, 2005. View abstract

“The Kyiv Period of Bronislava Nijinska 1915-1921” – Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies – Cambridge, UK, 2005

“Calderon and Russian Symbolist Theatre” – The 26th Comparative Drama Conference – Columbus, OH, 2002
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RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

"Art Rescuers of Nukus," (documentary), dir. Amanda Pope
2006 - Translator

OUWB Public Television, Athens, OH
summer 2001- Director on duty

Russian Weekly Newspaper V Novom Svete, New York, NY
winter 2001- Freelance reporter

Entertainment Weekly, CNN America, Los Angeles, CA,
summer 2000 - Intern

Weekly newspaper Stolichnye Novosti, Kiev, Ukraine
1998 - present - Freelance reporter

Daily newspaper Den, Kiev, Ukraine
1997 - 1999 - Freelance reporter

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SPECIALIZED TRAINING

• Watermill Center Summer Arts Program (with the director Robert Wilson) – Watermill, NY, 2004
• Advanced Modern Journalism – Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 1999
• “Management and Communication for Theater Makers”, Amsterdam Moving Academy for Performing Arts, Kiev, Ukraine 1998
• Journalism and Democracy – Institute for Journalism Education, Kalmar, Sweden, 1998
• Arts Management – Amsterdam Summer University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1998
• Ukrainian Studies – Harvard University Summer School, Cambridge, MA, 1997

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PRODUCTION CREDIT

Director- "The Chant of Universal Flowering" by Pavel Filonov, USC/The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles - 2005

Director – "Silence" by H. Pinter, University of Pittsburgh Studio Theatre, Pittsburgh - 2003

Assistant Director/ Dramaturge – Uncle Vanya (dir. Bruce McConachie), University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh - 2002

Actress – Kyiv Studio of Television Films: Kyiv's Beggars (1994) and The Garden of Gethsemane (1995).
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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop
QuarkXPress
Macromedia
AVID Composer (non linear digital computer editing system)