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Gregory Freidin Curriculum Vitae GREGORY FREIDIN CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures Stanford University Stanford CA 94305-2006 Phone: (650) 725-0006 / (650) 723-4438; Fax: (650) 723-0011 Email: [email protected] Education Ph.D., Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley, June, 1979. Dissertation: "Time, Identity and Myth in Osip Mandelstam: 1908-1921" M.A., Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Berkeley, June 1974 Special Student, Brandeis University, 1972 The First State Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, USSR, 1969-1971 Secondary School, Moscow, USSR, 1964 Professional Experience Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Stanford University, April 2007- Interim Head, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL), 2005-2006 Research Fellow, European Forum at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2005- Acting Director, Center for Russian East-European and Eurasian Studies. Stanford University. 2003-04 Chairman, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, 1994-97, 1998-2001, 2007- Visiting Professor, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of California at Berkeley, 2001 Professor, 1993- Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, 1985-93 Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University 1978-85 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University, 1977-78 Acting Instructor, Board of Studies in Literature, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1976 Consultant, Program "Masterpieces of Russian Cinema," Public Broadcasting Service, 1973 Stringer, Time, Inc., 1972-74. Transcribing and translating the memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev Research Associate, Department of Overseas Economic Research, Information Institute, INFORMELEKTRO, Moscow, 1967-1971 Honors and Awards Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Award (the Isaac Babel projects), 2004-05 The Hewlett Committee of the Stanford’s Insttute for International Studies Award (the Isaac Babel projects), 2004-05 Dmitri Keuseff Professor of Slavic Studies, Stanford University. 2003-04 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1991 International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship, 1989-1990 International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship, 1988-1989 Graves Award, 1987-1988 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1986-87 Howard Foundation Fellowship, 1982-83 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Grant, 1982 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Recent Recipients of a Ph.D., 1980-81 American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 1979 Gregory Freidin - 2 - Curriculum Vitae International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Fellowship, 1976-77 Regents Fellowship, University of California, 1973-74 Stanley M. Tashira Fellowship, University of California, 1972-73 Brandeis University Fellowship, 1972 Research Abroad Odessa, Kiev, St. Petersburg, August 2006 Moscow (IMLI Archive, TsGALI, Russian State Library & Manuscript Collection, Summer 2002) Moscow (IMLI Archive, TsGALI, Russian State Library & Manuscript Collection, Summer 2001) Moscow (IMLI Archive, TsGALI, Russian State Library & Manuscript Collection, Summer 2000) Moscow (IMLI Archive, TsGALI, Russian State Library & Manuscript Collection, Summer 1999) Moscow (TsGALI, Russian State Library & Manuscript Collection, Summer 1998) Moscow (TsGALI, Russian State Library & Manuscript Collection, Summer 1997) Moscow (TsGALI, Russian State Library & Manuscript Collection, Summer 1995) Moscow (TsGALI, Lenin Library, Summer 1994) Moscow (TsGALI, Lenin Library, September 1993) Moscow (TsGALI, Lenin Library, June-July 1992) Moscow (IMLI Archive, TsGALI, Lenin Library), Summer 1989 Moscow (GIAI, Lenin Library, TsGALI), Summer 1988 London (The British Museum), Paris (Bibliotheque Nationale), 1984 London (The British Museum), Paris (Bibliotheque Nationale), 1982 Helsinki, Finland, 1976-77 Professional and Public Service Editorial Board, Slavic Review: American Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies, 2006- Chairman, Committee for the Revision of the Core Content of Encyclopaedia Britannica (Russia), 1999- 2002 Co-Founder (with Robert F. Ball III) and President of Russian Britannica, LLC., Publisher of Rossiiskaia Britannika, 1995-96 Academic Advisor, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1991-95, 1997-2002 Working Group For the Study of Soviet Culture, Committee for the Study of Popular Culture, Joint Committee of the Social Sciences Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, 1989-94 Member, Editorial Board, Central Asian Monitor, 1992-96 Co-organizer,with Katerina Clark of Yale University, of the Second Annual Meeting of the International Working Group For the Study of Soviet Popular Culture (Berkeley, June 1990) University Service Conference Organizing and Public Events Founder and organizer (with Roland Greene), “Humanities in the Academy: Reflections on the Profession,” new graduate students and faculty colloquium for Graduate Programn in Humanities and Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, 2007-. Organizer, “Spatial Form: Centers, Borders, and the Construction of Difference in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.” XXVIII Annual Stanford-Berkeley Conference. Stanford. April 15, 2004. Organizer, “The Enigma of Isaac Babel: An International Conference.” Stanford University. February 29- March 2, 2004. Curator, Exhibition: Isaac Babel: A Writer’s Life. Hoover Institution Libraries and Archives. January 20- March 2, 2004. Dramaturge. Maria. The US premiere of a play by Isaac Babel. Dir. Carl Weber. Stanford Drama Department. Pigott Theater. February 19-29, 2004. Gregory Freidin - 3 - Curriculum Vitae Organizer. “Joseph Brodsky and the Circulation of Poetry: A Collquium.” Stanford University and Hoover Institution, February 23, 2001 Think Again Alumni Seminars, “After Eternity: Identities, Memories, Generations in Russian Culture Today: Kibirov, Pelevin, Putin,” Winter and Spring 2002 Organizer, International Conference: Russia at the End of the Twentieth Century, November 1998 Stanford Centennial Symposium Planning Committee, "Ethnicity, Equity, and Environment," 1989-1990 (organizer of the Soviet Union Panel) Committees and Administration Director, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Stanford University, April 2007- Interim Head, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL), 2005-2006 Chair, Planning and Personnel Committee, DLCL. 2005-06 Chair, Committee on Undergraduate Studies, DLCL. 2005-06 Appointments and Promotions Committee, H&S, Ad hoc member, 2005-06 Acting Director, Center for Russian East-European and Eurasian Studies. 2003-04 Japanese Search Committee, Department of Asian Languages, 2002-03 Search Committee for the Director of Stanford Humanities Center, 2001-02. CommitteeCommittee on Undergraduate Studies, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, 2002- Stanford Humanities Center applications reviewer, 1998- Executive Committee, Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, 1994-97, 1998-2001 Chairman, Department of Slavic Languages & Literaures, 1994-97, 1998-2001, 2007- Overseas Studies Advisory Committee, 1998- Review Committee of the Kyoto Program (Overseas Studies), 1999 Slavic Department Search Committee, 1997-98 Stanford Continuing Studies course, “Russian Culture Today,” 1996 Chairman pro tempore, Executive Committee, Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, Fall 1994 Member, Executive Committee, Center for Russian and East European studies, 1984-85, 1994-97 Committee in Charge, Humanities Special Program, 1988-97, 2001- Dean's Advisory Panel on Central Europe, 1992-93 Committee on Cultural Studies Curriculum, 1992- Dean's Advisory Committee on Reconfiguration of the Language Departments, 1991-92 Co-Editor, Stanford Slavic Studies, 1987- Departmental Service Chair, Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, 1994-97, 1998-2001, 2007- Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1998-01, 2002-3, 2005-06, 2007- Search Committee, 1997-98 Chairman, Promotion Review Committee for Professor Monika Greenleaf Graduate Advisor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 1984-87. 1989-00 Chairman, Slavic Department Search Committee, 1989-90, 1991-92, 1992-93 Graduate Admissions Committee Curriculum Review Co-Editor, with Profs. Lazar Fleishman and Richard S. Schupbach, Stanford Slavic Studies, 1987- Faculty Seminars and Research Groups Co-Director (with Russell Berman), Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Globalization (Global/Local), 1998-99 Co-Director (with Russell Berman and Renato Rosaldo), The Mellon Foundation Faculty Seminar on Interpretation, 1984-86 Gregory Freidin - 4 - Curriculum Vitae Courses Taught: Undergraduate Text and Context in Huamnities. Oedipous and His Vicissitudes: Tales of Mode3rnity from Sophocles, Freud, Turgenev, Chekhov, and Babel (Humanities 100). Dissent and Disenchantment: Russian Literature since the Death of Stalin The Age of Revolution: Russian Literature and Culture in the Twentieth Century Introduction to Russian Cinema Russian Poetry in the Twentieth Century: From Blok to Brodsky Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and the Social Thought of Its Time (Humanities 190/Slavgen 197) Russia and the Other: A Cultural Approach (undergraduate capstone seminar, required of honors students), with Gabriella Safran Tolstoy’s War and Peace in Context. Freshman seminar Introduction to
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