Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Curriculum vitae Last updated 16 June 2021
Dr Kelsey Rubin-Detlev Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353, USA [email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California (January 2018-present).
Foote Junior Research Fellow in Russian, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford (October 2015-December 2017).
EDUCATION
Lincoln College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3DR, United Kingdom (2012-2016). D.Phil. in Medieval and Modern Languages. Date of award: 19 January 2016. Thesis title: ‘The Letters of Catherine the Great and the Rhetoric of Enlightenment’. Supervisor: Andrew Kahn FBA. Examiners: Nicholas Cronk (University of Oxford) and Marcus C. Levitt (University of Southern California).
Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY 10027, USA (2010-2012). MA in Russian Literature. Thesis title: ‘Diderot, Derzhavin, and the Salon of Catherine II: Case Studies on the Integration of Russia into the Republic of Letters’. Advisors: Tatiana Smoliarova, Joanna Stalnaker.
Christ Church, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1DP, United Kingdom (2006-2010). B.A. (Hons) in Medieval and Modern Languages, French and Russian. Preliminary Examination in Modern Languages: Pass with Distinction in French and Russian. Final Honour School of Modern Languages: Congratulatory First, with distinction in colloquial use of French and Russian. Extended Essay title: ‘The Correspondence between Voltaire and Catherine II: An Analysis of Literary Role-Play’. Supervisor: Nicholas Cronk.
MONOGRAPHS
The Bible in Enlightenment Russia, in preparation (expected submission Fall 2023)
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019)
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Winner of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Best First Book Award 2020 Winner of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies 2019 Reviews: Victoria Frede, Slavic Review 79, no. 4 (Winter 2020), 872-73
TRANSLATION/EDITION
Catherine the Great, Selected Letters, trans. and ed. by Andrew Kahn and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘An Ancient in Catherinian Russia: Classical Reception, Sensibility, and Nobility in Princess Ekaterina Urusova’s Poetry of the 1770s’, Slavic Review 80, no. 1 (Spring 2021), 90-111.
‘“What Would Voltaire Say?”: Voltaire’s exchange value in the correspondence of Catherine the Great’, Revue Voltaire 16 (2016), 241-52.
‘Voltaire and the Affair of the Bottle Conjuror: the authorship of the review of Tristram Shandy in the Gazette littéraire de l’Europe (20 March 1765)’, Revue Voltaire 12 (2012), 285-92.
‘La Correspondance de Voltaire et Catherine II: un jeu de rôle littéraire’, Revue Voltaire 11 (2011), 237-56.
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Russian Epistolary Writing from the Middle Ages to the Turn of the 19th Century’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, ed. by Paula Rabinowitz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
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With Andrew Kahn, ‘Catherine the Great and the Art of Epistolary Networking’, in Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters, ed. by Chloe Edmondson and Dan Edelstein, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019), pp. 47-73.
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Mary Ann Cavendish-Bradshaw, Ferdinand and Ordella, A Russian Story; With authentic anecdotes of the Russian court after the demise of Peter the Great (1810)’, in The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820, ed. by April London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021).
‘Rudolph Erich Raspe, Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1786)’, in The Cambridge Guide to the English Novel 1660-1820, ed. by April London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021).
‘Ein kaiserliches Briefnetzwerk—Katharina die Große’, in Handbuch Brief: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart, ed. by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig, Jörg Schuster, Gesa Steinbrink, and Jochen Strobel (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 871-83.
‘A Philosopher-Empress in a Revolutionary World: Catherine the Great to the Prince de Ligne’, in ‘Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life’: The Letters of Great Thinkers, ed. by Ada Bronowski (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), pp. 73-79.
CRITICAL EDITIONS
Voltaire’s letter to Prince D. A. Golitsyn of 19 June 1773 in ‘Commentaire historique sur les œuvres de l’auteur de la Henriade’, in Voltaire, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. by Theodore Besterman and others (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968-), vol. 78C (2018), pp. 287-94.
With Christophe Cave, ‘Articles extraits de la Gazette Littéraire de l’Europe’, in Voltaire, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. by Theodore Besterman and others (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968-), vol. 58 (2016), pp. 1-301.
‘Lettres et réponses de M. Palissot et de Monsieur de Voltaire’, in Voltaire, Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, ed. by Theodore Besterman and others (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1968-), vol. 51A (2015), pp. 245-339.
Contributed editorial notes to Voltaire, Corpus des notes marginales, 8: Rollin-Sommier, ed. by Natalia Elaguina (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2012).
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BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche, Lettres de l’impératrice Marie-Thérèse à Sophie d’Enzenberg (1746-1780): ‘le soleil même me paraît noir’, ed. by Jean-Pierre Lavandier. (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2019), French Studies 74, no. 3 (July 2020), 472.
Review of Anthony J. La Vopa, The Labor of the Mind: Intellect and Gender in Enlightenment Cultures (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), Modern Philology 116, no. 1 (August 2018), E55-E57
Review of Lettres d’Odessa du duc de Richelieu, 1803-1814, ed. by Elena Polevchtchikova and Dominique Triaire (Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Etude du XVIIIe siècle, 2014), Modern Language Review 111, no. 3 (July 2016), 867-68.
Review of Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, Correspondances russes, 2 vols, ed. by Alexandre Stroev and Jeroom Vercruysse (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2013), French Studies 68, no. 2 (April 2014), 249.
Review of Julia V. Douthwaite, The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), Journal of European Studies, 43, no. 2 (June 2013), 175-77.
ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONOURS
University of Southern California
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Best First Book Award 2020 For The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies 2019 For The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2022-2023), Lichtenberg-Kolleg—The Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study, Göttingen, Germany. For work on a new monograph, The Bible in Enlightenment Russia.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2020-2021 cohort, held 1 January-31 December 2021). Funded at assistant professor level to work on a new monograph, The Bible in Enlightenment Russia.
David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History (October-November 2021), The Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Visiting fellowship for research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries.
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Graduate Study
The Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities (2012-2015), University of Oxford. Covered tuition, fees, and living stipend. Senior Scholarship (2013-2015), Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Small grant for academic performance. Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) Russian Archive Training Scheme (April 2013). Awarded a CEELBAS-funded place on a week-long training programme in Moscow archives. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, (Summer 2012), Columbia University. Funding from the US Department of Education for Russian language study. Faculty Fellowship (2010-2012), Columbia University. Covered tuition, fees, and living stipend. Harriman-GSAS Named Fellowship (2010-2011), Columbia University. Grant.
Undergraduate Study
Gibbs Prize in Medieval and Modern Languages (Trinity 2010), University of Oxford. Awarded for top results in the Final Examination in Modern Languages. Gerard Davis Prize (2009-2010), University of Oxford. Awarded for the best Extended Essay in French literary studies. Dukes Prize (Hilary 2010), Christ Church, Oxford. For proficiency in French. Scholarship (2007-2010), Christ Church, Oxford. Awarded for outstanding results in Preliminary Examination and renewed twice for continued outstanding academic performance. Heath Harrison Travelling Scholarship (2008-2009), Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford. Awarded to carry out research in St Petersburg, Russia, for a project on Voltaire and Catherine II of Russia. National Merit Scholar (2006), USA.
INVITED LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
Seminar presentation of The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great Respondent: Angelina Vacheva (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) Kolloquium 18.-19. Jahrhundert-Forschung/Kollokvium po istorii XVIII-XIX vv., Deutsches Historisches Institut, Moscow, Russia (November 2020).
‘Catherine the Great and Russian Reactions to the French Revolution’ USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Long 18th Century Colloquium, Huntington Library, Los Angeles, CA, USA (November 2019).
‘The Play of Publicity in the Letters of Catherine the Great’ Besterman Enlightenment Workshop, University of Oxford (January 2016).
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‘Translation and Research in Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Discussion session for the Romanticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies Oxford Research Seminar, University of Oxford (October 2016).
‘Catherine the Great: Writing a Letter as an Eighteenth-Century Philosopher King’ The Philosophical Letter Through the Ages Workshop, The Queen’s College, Oxford (June 2016).
‘“Au rang des plus grands hommes”: Voltaire and the concept of the “grand homme” in the correspondence of Catherine the Great’ Early Modern French Seminar: Graduate Research Showcase, University of Oxford (April 2013).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
‘A. N. Radishchev’s Repurposing of the Biblical Word’ American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (April 2021).
‘F. M. Dostoevsky’s Correspondence with A. G. Dostoevskaia: Dialogue or Serialized Novel?’ American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, USA (February 2020).
‘Maria Theresa’s Letters to Her Children as an Epistolary Mirror for Princes’ International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) International Congress on the Enlightenment, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (July 2019).
Contribution to ‘Re-Imagining the Digital Critical Edition for the Eighteenth Century (Roundtable)’ International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) International Congress on the Enlightenment, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (July 2019).
‘Above Gender? Social and Intellectual Authority in the Letters of Eighteenth-Century Royal Women’ Portraits & Poses: Representations of Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe, Annual Conference of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Leuven, Belgium (March 2019).
‘Women’s Claims to Political Relevance in Eighteenth-Century Poetry’ American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA (February 2019).
Contribution to a roundtable on ‘Who or what is excluded from networks?’ Digitizing Enlightenment III, Oxford, UK (July 2018).
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‘Maria Antonia of Saxony’s Epistolary Self-Creation as a Political Actor’ American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, USA (March 2018).
‘Princess Ekaterina Urusova’s Battle of the Books’ Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA (February 2018).
‘La correspondance entre Mme de Graffigny et Mme Copineau: didactisme, amitié et épistolarité à la cour de Vienne’ Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Toronto, Canada (October 2017).
‘The Contradictory Sources of Early Russian Romanticism: Arzamas and the French Literary Tradition’ American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Utrecht, The Netherlands (July 2017).
‘The Epistolary Strategies of Catherine the Great and Maria Theresa’ American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA (March 2017).
‘Christiane Mervaud’s Voltaire et Frédéric II: une dramaturgie des Lumières as a Turning Point in Epistolary Studies’ Contribution to a roundtable on ‘The Enlightenment Since Besterman: 60 Years of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century’, American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, USA (March 2017).
‘“Notre style n’est bon que pour nous et pour les commis des postes”: Catherine II de Russie et la surveillance des correspondances’ Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (October 2016).
‘Poetry and Friendship in the Letters of N. M. Karamzin to I. I. Dmitriev’ Lines of Connection: An International Conference on Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Ertegun House, Oxford (July 2016).
‘The Digital Correspondence of Catherine the Great Pilot Project’ Joint presentation with Andrew Kahn on a panel about publishing letters at the conference ‘Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age’, Bodleian Library, Oxford (June 2016).
Contribution to ‘Round Table: Eighteenth-Century Centres and Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers’ British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s, Oxford (January 2016).
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‘Voltaire in Catherine the Great’s Poetics of the Letter’ 14th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (July 2015).
‘Catherine the Great’s Letters as Objects of Value’ Enlightenment Correspondences: A Two-Day Workshop, Ertegun House, Oxford (June 2015).
‘“Elle a écrit de sa propre main”: Catherine the Great’s Letters in Periodicals and Polemics of Eighteenth-Century France’ American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (March 2015).
‘The Digital Correspondence of Catherine the Great Pilot Project’ Presented a poster at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School Poster Session, University of Oxford (July 2013).
‘The Enlightenment in the Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Friedrich Melchior Grimm’ Was there a Russian Enlightenment?, a one-day conference, Ertegun House, Oxford (November 2012).
‘An imperial salonnière? Catherine the Great, Voltaire and Diderot’ The French Language in Russia: An international interdisciplinary conference, University of Bristol (September 2012). An audio recording of this paper can be found at http://bristol.ac.uk/arts/research/french- in-russia/conference/audiorecordings/.
‘Was there a polemic between Catherine the Great and Nikolai Novikov in 1769?’ North East Slavic, East European and Eurasian Conference, Seton Hall University, NJ, USA (March 2012).
‘“Ya ne iz chisla l’stetsov”: Derzhavin and the 17th-Century French Discourse of Flattery’ Columbia-Princeton Graduate Mini-Conference, Columbia University in New York (March 2011).
SERVICE AS CHAIR/DISCUSSANT (since 2018)
Discussion of Marie Antoinette, Lettres inédites, ed. Catriona Seth, and Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings, ed. Avi Lifschitz, trans. Angela Scholar Besterman Enlightenment Workshop (February 2021), discussant alongside Tim Blanning (University of Cambridge).
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Sermons and Odes and the Emerging Social Institutions American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) Annual Conference San Diego, CA, USA (February 2020), panel chair.
Weddings and Births Diplomacy and Gender in the Early Modern World (1400-1800) Oxford, UK (June 2018), panel chair.
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
New Books Network 45-minute podcast interview about my monograph, The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great
USC Dornsife News, University of Southern California Interviewed for ‘Modern politicians could learn a thing or two from this Russian empress’ by Margaret Crable
Exhibition at the Taylor Institution, Oxford ‘“The Unnatural Life at the Writing-Desk”: Women’s Writing across the Long Eighteenth Century’, co-curated with Joanna Raisbeck (June 2017).
Linguists’ Reunion Dinner, The Queen’s College, Oxford ‘Catherine the Great, Or, How to Write Yourself a Place in History’, a talk for alumni to learn about current research in the college (March 2016).
CONFERENCES ORGANISED
Lines of Connection: An International Conference on Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Ertegun House, Oxford Co-organised the conference with Dr Carly Watson (Oxford, English), under the auspices of the Digital Miscellanies Index, the Oxford Centre for Research in the Humanities (TORCH), and Ertegun House (July 2016).
Enlightenment Correspondences: A Two-Day Workshop, Ertegun House, Oxford Conference co-organised with Andrew Kahn and funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (June 2015).
Was there a Russian Enlightenment?, a one-day conference, Ertegun House, Oxford Co-organiser with Andrew Kahn (Audio recordings of the entire conference can be found at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/was-there-russian-enlightenment) (November 2012).
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SEMINAR SERIES ORGANISED
TORCH Enlightenment Correspondences Network, co-convenor (2013-2017), University of Oxford.
Besterman Enlightenment Workshop, co-convenor (2013-2017), University of Oxford.
University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture, Rapporteur (Autumn 2011-Spring 2012), Columbia University.
GUEST LECTURES FOR COURSES
History Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Invited guest speaker on the letters of Catherine the Great for Gregory Brown’s undergraduate course on ‘Great Personalities in History: Enlightenment Philosophers’ (HIST 388) (October 2019).
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley Invited guest speaker on the letters of Catherine the Great for Luba Golburt’s graduate course on ‘Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature’ (SLAVIC 242) (November 2017; November 2020).
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS), University of Oxford Presented the Digital Correspondence of Catherine the Great Pilot Project at an instructional session for the Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative Workshop (July 2016).
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
SLL 330gp Russian Thought and Civilization (Fall 2018, Spring 2020), University of Southern California. Fifteen-week lecture course covering Russian literature, culture, and history from the Primary Chronicle through the present day, focusing on the problem of how Russian identity has been shaped through encounters with the Other.
GESM 120g The Romantic Hero(ine) in Russia and the West (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020), University of Southern California. Fifteen-week writing-intensive seminar for first-year students, covering the evolution of the figures of the Romantic hero and heroine from Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther through Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and Pushkin’s Queen of Spades. (New course not previously taught in the department.)
Enlightenment Texts (Michaelmas Term 2015 and 2017), University of Oxford. Eight-week lecture and discussion course on eighteenth-century Russian literature for the Final Honour School of Russian.
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Introduction to Russian Versification (Hilary Term 2016 and Michaelmas Term 2017), University of Oxford. Three-week lecture course introducing first-year post-A-level students to metre, rhyme, and stanza form in Russian. Repeated as a two-week course in 2017.
Paper IX (Enlightenment Texts) Revision Tutorials (Hilary Term 2016), University of Oxford. One-on-one tutorials preparing a student for the Final Honour School examination on eighteenth-century Russian literature.
Radishchev (Hilary Term 2016), University of Oxford. Four-week lecture course on A. N. Radishchev’s Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow for the Final Honour School of Russian.
First- and Second-Year French Unseens (Michaelmas Term 2015), Brasenose College, Oxford. Fortnightly classes on translating literary texts from French into English.
Derzhavin (Hilary Term 2014 and 2015), University of Oxford. Six-week lecture course on G. R. Derzhavin’s ‘Felitsa’ for first-year post-A-level Russian students.
Second-Year Russian II (Spring 2012), Columbia University.
Second-Year Russian I (Autumn 2011), Columbia University.
GRADUATE TEACHING
SLL 532 Eighteenth-Century Russian Literature (Spring 2018, Fall 2019), University of Southern California.
SLL 650 Seminar on Russian Literature (Spring 2019), University of Southern California. Seminar on epistolarity in Russian culture, including real letters, poetic epistles, and epistolary fiction from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Nabokov. (New course not previously taught in the department.)
SLL 790 Research (Spring 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2019), University of Southern California. Directed research at the graduate level.
GRADUATE SUPERVISION
Dissertation advisor and qualifying exam committee chair for Ekaterina Shubenkina (USC Slavic), ‘Learning to Write in Russia, 1700-1860’ (2019-present)
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Dissertation advisor and qualifying exam committee chair for Erica Camisa Morale (USC Slavic), ‘Staging Death in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Russian Poetry: The Lyric Persona in Transition’ (2018-present)
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Slavic Department Graduate Committee, University of Southern California. Member (2018-2019).
Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment/TORCH Enlightenment Programme, University of Oxford. Co-ordinator (2013-2017).
Ulbandus, the Slavic Review of Columbia University, Subscriptions and Accounts Officer (2011-2012).
Slavic Department Curriculum Committee, Columbia University, Graduate Student Representative (2010-2012).
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Peer reviewer of manuscripts in English and German for the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Seminar: A Journal of German Studies.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Goethe-Zertifikat C1 (October 2019) Certification of achieving CEFR level C1 in German, with grade of ‘sehr gut’.
USC Center for Excellence in Teaching New Faculty Institute (2018-2019) Teacher training course for new faculty members at the University of Southern California.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (July 2016) Teaching qualification obtained upon successful completion of the University of Oxford Teaching Fellowship Programme.
Russkiy Mir Graduate Student Programme, St Petersburg, Russia (October 2014) Scholarship for one month of language and literature study at St Petersburg State University, under the supervision of Professor Petr Bukharkin.
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Summer 2014) Teaching qualification obtained upon successful completion of the University of Oxford Humanities Division Developing Learning and Teaching scheme.
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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) (July 2013) Awarded one of ten graduate bursaries to attend the summer school. Received one week of intensive training in TEI XML markup language.
Middlebury Summer Language Schools, Middlebury, VT (Summer 2012) Six-week Russian graduate-level immersion programme. Awarded certificate for outstanding academic performance. Presented an academic paper in Russian on a series of Catherine the Great’s letters to Potemkin.
Goethe Institute, Göttingen, Germany (Summer 2011) Four-week intensive language programme at CEFR level B1, completed with a mention of ‘sehr gut.’
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon, Lyon, France (Spring 2009) Attestation d’Etudes Politiques. Certificate in Political Science awarded for satisfactory completion of a one-semester integrated programme of study.
Centre of Russian Language and Culture of St Petersburg State University, Smolny Campus, St Petersburg, Russia (Autumn 2008) Enrolled in language and literature classes at highest level offered at the Smolny. Attended literature lectures at the Filologicheskii Fakultet at St Petersburg State University. Individual tutorials on translation into Russian with a professor from the university.
Middlebury Summer Language Schools, Middlebury, VT (Summer 2006) Nine-week Russian immersion programme, Level 4 Intermediate Russian. Awarded certificate for outstanding academic performance.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (CSECS/SCEDHS) Modern Languages Association (MLA) Société des Etudes Voltairiennes (SEV) Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia (SGECR)
LANGUAGES
English (native) Russian (fluent)
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French (fluent) German (C1/advanced) Italian (advanced) Spanish (reading) Old Church Slavonic (reading)
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