CV ESW January 2017 Elena Susanna Weygandt, Ph.D. Department of Russian Studies ∙ Dalhousie University 3015 Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building ∙ 6135 University Avenue Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2∙ [email protected] ∙ +1 (902) 579-2770 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT & AFFILIATION ________________________ Fall 2016 - Instructor of Russian culture & language. Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Supervising 5 TAs in the pedagogy of Russian culture and non-text media http://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/russian- studies/faculty-staff/our-faculty/full-time-faculty/susanna-weygandt.html Spring 2016 Writer in Residence Program. New York University (NYU), The Jordan Center http://jordanrussiacenter.org/writers-residence/ Fall 2015 Project Manager at Princeton University Slavic Languages Department and The Center for Digital Humanities. Responsible for website archive exhibition; grant applications; Digital Humanities as classroom a pedagogical tool EDUCATION______________________________________________________ 2015 Ph.D. Princeton University, Slavic Languages and Literatures, June 2 2012 M.A. Princeton University, Slavic Languages and Literatures, May 19 2008-‘09 Fulbright Research Grant. Visiting Fellow at The School of Dramatic Art (SDA), Moscow. Project: the first written analysis of Anatoly Vasiliev’s method of adaptation of novels to the stage (using Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination as theoretical scaffolding). http://www.fulbright.ru/ru/community/weygandt 2007 M.A. Middlebury College, Russian Literature (3.75 GPA). All written work and seminar discussion in Russian 2006 B.A. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, Russian Literature Major DISSERTATION AND THESES Princeton U., Ph.D. “Embodiment in Post-Somatic, Postdramatic Russian New Drama” Defense Committee: Caryl Emerson; Serguei Oushakine; Jill S. Dolan Outside Readers: Boris Wolfson (Amherst); Sharon Marie Carnicke (USC) Middlebury College M.A.“Plastika tansta Mir Liudei i Veshchei A.B. Droznina / Plastika Dance Choreography in Andrei Droznin’s World of People and Objects.” 55 pp. in Russian. Defense in Russian. Advisor: Galina Aksenova Bryn Mawr College “Language of Gesture, Mental Imagery, and the Inosculation of Mind and Body in the Stanislavsky System: Unknown, Untranslated, and Forbidden Innovations in the Early Soviet Union” (100 pp.) Advising by Tim Harte 1 CV ESW January 2017 CERTIFICATES IN COMPARATIVE FIELDS________________________ Certificate in the History of Science & Technology, 2015, The Program of History of Science & Technology, Princeton U. Research papers in the intersections of art, science & technology in the early Soviet period Certificate in Theater Directing 2005, Russian State Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS), Moscow Master Pedagogue: Leonid Kheivits EDUCATION IN RUSSIA___________________________________________ 2006-2007 Graduate studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities RGGU, See Middlebury transcript for Russian/Soviet history, film, & Silver Age poetry courses 2004-2005 Certificate in Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program (RLASP) through ACTR at International University, Moscow, Russia. See Bryn Mawr College transcript 2003 Certificate in RLASP through ACTR at KORA Center for Russian Language Study, Vladimir, Russia. See Bryn Mawr College transcript. Summer Total years of research and language study in Russia: 4 LANGUAGES Russian – Fluency in Russian scored “Advanced” by ACTR proficiency guidelines (Middlebury Campus) and “11” out of “12” in ALTA Fluency Test; German – reading fluency. Dual United States/ European Union citizenship; French – reading fluency, good speaking; Bulgarian – reading fluency; Old Church Slavonic – reading fluency FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS____________________________ 2015 Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research Fellowship at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 2014 The Graduate School Summer Travel Grant, Princeton University, Talk and Open Mic demonstration of Stanislavsky’s exercises at International Federation for Theater Research (IFTR), England 2013 David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project Grants in the Council of the Humanities for the Phaedra Symposium: Myth in Translation 2013 Charles Townsend Prize, annual award that goes to outstanding graduate student in the Slavic Department 2 CV ESW January 2017 2013 Dissertation Research Grant, Princeton Institute for International Research Study, PIIRS 2012 Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton U.; the Eberhard L. Faber Fund in the Humanities Council; the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton (IHUM); the Program in Theatre of the Lewis Center for the Arts sponsorship for Literary Theatricality: Theatrical Text Conference 2012 The Graduate School Travel Grant, Princeton University, Fall ‘12 and Spring ‘12 2009-‘10 Gottfried and Sophie Piel Scholarship, awarded to exceptional student admitted to Princeton’s PhD program 2008-‘09 Fulbright Critical Language Enhancement Award for Russian 2004-‘05 George Kline Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College 2004 Bryn Mawr College Summer Arts Grant 2003 Thomas Raebun White Grant for study abroad in Russia HONORABLE MENTIONS 2016 Finalist for Pembroke Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender and Sexuality Studies Program competition, Brown University 2016 Finalist for UCIS/Russian and East European Studies Postdoctoral Andrew Mellon Fellowship competition, University of Pittsburgh INTERVIEWS_____________________________________________________ The BBC Science & Technology Radio Program Click! Interview with Susanna Weygandt about her ACLA Seminar at Harvard University, “‘Old’ (dance notation) and New Technologies (digital analogues) for Recording and Preserving Ballet,” July 15, 2016 Vestnik, the journal of The School for Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS). Interview with Susanna Weygandt about her studies at GITIS (The Russian State Institute for Theater Arts) June 16, 2006 http://www.sras.org/vestnik PUBLICATIONS________________________________________________ Book Anthologies 2018 Forward, Russia! New Dramas and Manifestos of Second-Millennial Russia, anthology of translated plays in book; website contains translated historical documents. Columbia UP. Edited, introduced, and translated the plays with Maksim Hanukai. 2018 Postcolonial Approaches to Central and Eastern European Performance, co-edited and introduced with Magda Romanska (Professor of Theater, Dance, and Media at Yale U. and Harvard U). In process of submission. 3 CV ESW January 2017 2016 Three Contemporary Russian Plays (by Dmitry Bykov, Yaroslava Pulinovich, and Sergei Kokovkin). Edited & introduced collection of plays. Translated by Alexander Rojavin. Slavica (Indiana UP) Article in Peer Reviewed Journal 2016 “The Structure of Plasticity: Resistance and Accommodation in Russian New Drama,” Issue 1-T229 in TDR: The Drama Review, ed. Richard Schechner. Peer-reviewed. MIT Press. DOI is 10.1162/DRAM_a_00527; ISSN for the print edition of the journal is 1054-2043; ISSN for the digital edition is 1531-4715 Article in Book 2017 “The Object as Prosthesis and Protagonist in Russian New Drama.” In Russian Performances. New York: Routledge. Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday, and Boris Wolfson, eds. Articles in Russian 2017 «Plasticheskie tela v khudozhestvennikh i nauchnikh eksperimentakh K. Stanislavskogo, T. Lysenko i A. Zal’kinda / The Plastic Bodies of Konstantin Stanislavsky, Trofim Lysenko, and Aron Zalkind inthe Era of Soviet Behaviorism». НЛО 2014 “Deistvie v tvorchestve Ivana Vyrypaeva: perekhod ot fizicheskogo prostranstva k slovesnomu planu,” Noveishaia Drama XX- XXI vv. (“‘Dramatic Action’ in the Plays of Ivan Vyrypaev: A Shift from the Physical to the Verbal Plane,” New Drama of the 21st century.) ed. Tatiana Zhurcheva (Samara, Samara State University, 2014): 113- 118. ISBN 978-5-86465-621-1 2011 “Plasticheskii trening aktera po metodika Andreiia Droznina.” Teatr. Zhivopis.’ Kino. Muzyka. (“The Andrei Droznin Method of Plastika Training,” Theater. Visual Art. Film. Music.), 1 (Moscow: GITIS): 22-45. ISSN 1998-8745 Articles in Volumes 2013 “Performing the Narrator and Language-Images in Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin,” Brown Slavic Contributions, Estrangement Issue. Vol. XIV (Brown University, Providence, RI, 2013): 95- 106 http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/013732396/catalog; 2009 “Eugene Onegin the Novel in Verse as Material for Beginning and Intermediate Russian Language Instruction,” American Center at the Russian State University for the Humanities Annual Conference on Pedagogy. (RGGU: Moscow, 2009). Review 2014 Review of “Queuetopia: Second-World Modernity and the Soviet Culture of Allocation,” doctoral dissertation by Andrew Chapman, University of Pittsburgh, Dissertation Reviews, http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/11726 Work in Progress: Book manuscript of After Stanislavsky: Post-Somatic Drama in Russia. Invited by editors Rebecca Schneider (Brown U.) and David Krasner to submit to University of Michigan Press 4 CV ESW January 2017 My scholarship, quoted in: 2017 My article “The Structure of Plasticity” quoted in Dusty Wilmes, “Beyond Representation: Affect and Audience Reception in the New Drama of Ivan Vyrypaev,” forthcoming Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema. 2016 My article “The Structure of Plasticity” quoted in Seamus Whitty, “Embodiment and the Performance Praxis of Stanislavsky and Grotowsky” M.A. Thesis Trinity College, Dublin, English Literature/Literary Theory Department 2016 My conference paper “Early Soviet Plasticity in the Sciences and