Listed here are activities from the years before my work became entirely digital.
ARTICLES AND PRESENTATIONS
G.L. Kline, D. MacFadyen et al. Translation of Ninel’ by E. Rein, Nimrod 33/2 (1990): 40-42
“Nikolai Kliuev’s Correspondence with Aleksandr Blok.” Paper: AAASS National Conference, Phoenix, Arizona (1992)
Translation of New Life by J. Brodsky, with author. New Yorker April 26 (1993): 86-87
“Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque.” Paper: California Slavic Colloquium, Berkeley (1994)
Translation of poems by E. Rein. Wilson Quarterly XVIII/4 (1994): 102-105
“Brodsky, Kierkegaard and the Import of Tradition” (in Russian). Paper: St. Petersburg State University, Russia (1996). Published as article in Vestnik S. Peterburgskogo Universiteta, Winter 2000
“Relativity as a Response to Exile in the Work of Joseph Brodsky.” Paper: Commemorative Brodsky conference, University of Michigan (1996)
“A Reevaluation of Brodsky’s Bol’shaia Elegiia Dzhonu Donnu,” Russian Review 57/3 (1997): 424-446
“May 24 1996, St. Petersburg, Russia: The Perceived Significance of Joseph Brodsky's Legacy,” World Literature Today (winter 1997): 81-6
“Kliuev, Vasilev, Akhmatova and Brodskii: The Metamorphosis of One Classical Metaphor” (in Russian). Rytual’no-mifolohichnyi pidkhid do interpretatsii tektsu (Kiev: Ministerstvo Osvity Ukrainy 1997), 206-22
“Aesthetics and Ethics: The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Joseph Brodsky.” Paper: King's College University invited lecture series, Canada (winter 1997)
“Gavrila Derzhavin and Joseph Brodsky: Restaging a Fantastic Funeral.” Paper: Atlantic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Canada (April 1997)
Interview (1997) concerning Russian culture with CBC Morningside national radio program (rebroadcast later in the year)
“Brodsky and Byron's ‘Stanzas to Augusta’” (in Russian). Paper: Zvezda Brodsky conference, St. Petersburg, Russia (1997). Published in Iosif Brodskii: Tvorchestvo, Lichnost’, Sud’ba (St. Petersburg: Zvezda 1998), 161-166
“From Luxor to Leningrad: The Petersburg Sphinx as Russian Metaphor.” Paper: Royal Egyptological Society, Canada (November 1997)
Co-editor and compiler (1997-1998 with L. Losev and V. Maramzin) of commentary to Biblioteka poeta edition of Joseph Brodsky’s verse (1998)
“Where to Find the Russian Language: The Poetry of Mikhail Yeryomin,” World Literature Today (Winter 1998): 27-33
Interview on CBC national television concerning collapse of Russian stock market (August 1998)
“Anna Akhmatova: Poetry and Its Correlates in 1962” (in Russian, 1999).
Forthcoming (2001) in collected Akhmatova studies from the National Library of Russia
“The Philosophy of Translation: Tiutchev” (in Russian), Russian Studies / Etudes Russes (Summer 1999), 559-566
Translations of poems by Evgenii Rein. Antigonish Review (Summer 2000)
Translations of poems by Mikhail Eremin. Antigonish Review (Fall 2000)
Translation of short stories by Iakov Gordin. Antigonish Review (Winter 2000)
“Putin and the Culture of Federalism.” Paper: Canadian Atlantic Provinces Annual Political Science Conference - Multiple Sovereignties: Federalism and Other Solutions (October 2000)
“Estrada?! Towards a Philosophy of Soviet Popular Entertainment.” Paper: AAASS Annual Conference (December 2000) Washington, DC
“Politics, Aesthetics and Ethics in Joseph Brodsky’s On the Death of Zhukov.” Article: M. Rawlinson (ed.), Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries (State University of New York Press 2001)
“Soviet Comedic Cinema after the Thaw.” Paper: University of Toronto (January 2001)
“What's So Funny? Sadness and Soviet Cinema.” Paper: Emory University, Atlanta (February 2001)
“Unfolding the Contexts of Socialist]Cinema.” Paper: UCLA (March 2001)
“Pushkin, Biography and Grand Narratives.” Paper: Los Angeles Opera prior to debut of Queen of Spades (August 2001)
“The Digital Restoration of One Leningrad Museum” (in Russian). Paper: From Museum Library to Information Space. Akhmatova Museum Conference / St. Petersburg International Center for Preservation, Russia (May 2002)
“Leskov, Shostakovich and Peripheral Genres.” Paper: Los Angeles Opera prior to the debut of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (October 2002)
“The Relationship of Children’s Animation to an Adult Socialist Aesthetic” Paper: AAASS, Pittsburgh (November, 2002)
“Reassessing the Canon of Soviet Cinema.” Paper: University of Exeter (Spring 2003)
“Affect and Soviet Light Entertainment.” Paper: University of Bath (Spring 2003)
“Lacan, Laughter, and Socialist Lovers.” Paper: School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (Spring 2003)
“The ‘Oceanic Feeling’ in Soviet Culture.” Paper: Univ. of Sheffield (Spring 2003)
“How Socialism and Sentiment Overlap.” Paper: University of Surrey (Spring 2003)
“Somewhere Between Stalin and Bing Crosby: The Case of Aleksandr Vertinskii.” Paper: University of Bristol (Spring 2003)
“An Ecocritical Approach to Soviet Literature.” Paper: University of Bristol (Spring 2003)
“Stalin’s Cultural Legacy: Consumerism and Celebration.” Panel chaired: University of Bristol (Spring 2003)
“Central and East European Literature and Culture.” Panel chaired: British Association for Slavonic Studies, Annual Conference. Cambridge University (Spring 2003)
“Recent Russian Poetry.” Panel chaired: British Association for Slavonic Studies, Annual Conference. Cambridge University (Spring 2003)
“The Study of Language, Literature and Society in Leningrad (1920s -1930s).” Panel chaired: British Association for Slavonic Studies, Annual Conference. Cambridge University (Spring 2003)
“Russian Mafia-Manufactured Pedo-Porn-Pop Duo? The Odd Provenance of Tatu.” Paper: Cambridge University (April 2003)
“What's the Opposite of Australia? Ecologies of Wilderness in Soviet Prose.” Canadian Association of Slavists, Annual Convention (May 2003)
“Russo-Commonwealth Literary Relations” Panel chaired: Canadian Association of Slavists, Annual Convention (May 2003)
“The Romance of Piracy: Bootleggers and Audio-Visual Hackers in Russian Society Today.” Paper: University of Surrey (September 2003)
“Cabaret” and “Cartoons” for The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia Russian, Soviet and Eurasian History (Academic International Press)
“Carnival Night” and “Tale of Tales” for 24 Frames: The Cinema of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (Wallflower Press:)
“Restoring Akhmatova’s Archives” St. Petersburg-Los Angeles Sister City Committee (November 2003)
”Nudity on Nevskii: Perceptions of Tatu in St. Petersburg” Paper: AAASS (Toronto November 2003)
”Iurii Norshtein’s Cartoon zastavka for Spokoinoi nochi, malyshi” Paper: AAASS (Toronto November 2003)
“Smash and Grab: How Soviet Culture Stole (into) Central Asian forms of Selfhood” Paper: Cambridge University (Spring 2004)
“‘The Greatest Animated Film Of All Time’ And Why It Starred A Wolf Cub From The Soviet Union” Paper: Herriot-Watt University (Spring 2004)
“‘What the****?!’ The Soviet Heritage and Issues of Quality in Russian Popular Song and Video Today” Paper: Newcastle University (Spring 2004)
“Children and Childhood in Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century and Beyond” Panel chaired: Cambridge University (Spring 2004)
“Gender in Russian Cinema and Society” Panel chaired: Cambridge University (Spring 2004)
Twelve entries for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (2004-5): “Cars, Soviet and Post-Soviet,” “Eralash,” “Films, Comedy,” “Films, Soviet (Stalin Era),” “Argumenty i fakty,” “NTV,” “Russkoe radio,” “Soap Opera (Mylnaia opera),” “Contemporary Music,” “Tatu,” “Soccer,” “Television, Post-Soviet.”
“‘It Flooded the Room and Burst Through the Doors’: Some Aspects of Music and Video in Twentieth-Century Russian Storytelling.” Symposium paper: University of Pennsylvania (March 2004)
“Song and the Difficulties of Journalistic Satire on MTV-Russia, Biz-TV, Telekanal 2x2 or MuzTv” (in Russian). Paper: University of Pennsylvania (March 2004)
“Joseph Brodsky, Repetition and Multiplicity.” Two presentations: Skirball Center, Los Angeles (March 2004)
”I Love You and I’m Not Afraid to Say So!’The Origins of Russian Romantic Comedy.” Paper: University of St. Andrews (March 2004)
“Accessing the Anna Akhmatova Notebooks” Paper: Los Angeles Preservation Network (May 2004)
”3D Representations of ‘Poem without a Hero’ and Akhmatova's Communal Apartment” Presentation: St.Petersburg - LA Sister City Committee (September 2004)
”Selling the Empire: Soviet Promotional Rhetoric within Uzbek Culture.” Central Eurasian Studies Society: Annual Conference, Indiana (October 2004)
”Russian Cultural Studies as Paradox: Some Stumbling Blocks” Paper: AAASS, Boston (November 2004)
”Central Asian Cinema: Video Work of Sevara Nazarkhan” Paper: AAASS, Boston (November 2004)
”Constructing a Soviet Central Asian Biography” and “Varieties of Authoritarianism.” Two Panels as Discussant: Central Eurasian Studies Society:
Annual Conference, Indiana (October 2004) “Telling Tales: Russian Primetime Television Serials and the Literary Text.” Paper: Florida State University (January 2005)
“The Role of the Internet in Russian Musical and Literary Culture Today.” Paper: Pomona College (February 2005)
“Literature Has Left the Building: Russian Romance and Today's TV Drama.” Article: Kinokultura (April 2005)
”TextArc Software and Akhmatova's Archives.” Talk: Center for Digital Humanities (April 2005)
“The Role of Brezhnev in Today's TV Drama.” Talk: AAASS, Salt Lake City (November 2005). Subsequently published in Kinokultura.
“Walter Benjamin and Russian Literature.” Panel Discussant, AAASS Salt Lake City (November 2005).
“Russian Cinema and the Dangers of Terrorism.” Talk: UC Davis (February 2006)
“Russian Television and the Role of Celebrity: Dmitrii Nagiev.” Talk: BASEES, Cambridge University (March 2006).
“Amateur Song Production and the Russian Internet.” University of Surrey (April 2006)
“Tuning the Family Piano: Some Stately Harmonies in Russian and Uzbek Cinema.” (Spring 2006) Talk and subsequent article, Miami University (Ohio).
“Some Problems of Second-World Modernity: On-Line Music and Video.” UCLA Research Workshop (April 2006)
“Vysotskii as Black and White Minstrel: The Film Skaz pro to, kak tsar' Petr arapa zhenil .” Pittsburgh University (May 2006)
“Russian Pop Music Today: The Struggle for Independence.” Article: Kultura - Russland Kulturanalysen (May 2006)
"Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears: From Oscar to Consolation Prize."Article: Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (Fall 2006)
"Casual Ironies: Ten New Russian Novels of Note." Article: Transitions (Prague, September 2006)
"Khalmamed Kakabaev's Film Syn." Paper/Program Notes: University of Pittsburgh (October 2006)
"Usman Saparov's Film Muzhskoe vospitanie." Paper/Program Notes: University of Pittsburgh (October 2006)
"Changing Notions of Realism in Russian Television." Paper: University of Pittsburgh (October 2006); expanded version published in Kinokultura (April 2007)
"Russian TV and the World Cup."" Paper: AAASS, Washington (Winter 2006)
"Mobile Podcasting and Music Formats in Today's Siberia" Paper: AAASS, Washington (Winter 2006)
"Anatomizing Russian Pop and Rock." Article: Transitions (Prague, February 2007); republished in Special Radio (Moscow)
"Valentin's cards: Refereeing the Dirtiest Match in World Cup History." Article: Eurozine (Vienna, February 2007)
"Can You Hear Me Now? Mobile Technology in Rural Russia" Article: Eurozine (Vienna, March 2007); republished in Caffè Europa (Rome)
"Independent Rock Music in Russia, 2002-2006" Article: Special Radio (Moscow, March 2007)
"'What's This Called?' Independent Russian Pop Music." Article: Special Radio (Moscow, April 2007)
""Melodrama or Simply Melodramatic? Ivan Vyrypaev's Euphoria." Paper: University of Pittsburgh (May, 2007)
"Ethical Masochism in Recent Russian Melodrama." Article: Kinokultura (July 2007)
"Strike Up Pipers! The Moscow Film Festival, 2007"" Article: Kinokultura (October 2007)
“Tolstoy’s War and Peace: from Notebooks to Reception.” Three public lectures: Beverly Hills Country Club (October 2007)
"Russian Pop Music Today: The Likelihood of Western Success" Talk: Moscow State University (September 2007)
"STS Lights a Superstar! Jury Member on National Talent Show, Russian TV" (STS) September 2007
""Russian Television Today: Comedy, Crime, and a Dash of Dogma." Talk: St Andrews University, UKK (October 2007)
"Russian Pod- and Videocasting" Talk: Manchester University, UKK (October 2007)
"Several Reasons to Assume the Death of Russian Cinema." Talk: Edinburgh University, UKK (October 2007)
"Documentary Cinema and Russian Rock Music." Talk: AAASS, New Orleans (November, 2007).
"Western Perceptions of Post-Soviet Culturology" (A che eto Vy tam delaete, a??)." Talk: Advanced Institute of Anthropology , Moscow (December, 2007)
"Recent Literary Adaptation on Russian Television: The Competition between Profit and Prestige" Talk: Russian State University of the Humanities, Moscow (February, 2008)
"Usman Saparov's Film Little Angel, Bring Me Joy (1992)" Talk: UCLA Asia Institute (March, 2008)
"The Political Use of TV Sitcoms in Russia" Talk: UCLA Extension (April, 2008)
"Aleksandr Mindadze's Film Soar (2007).""Talk: Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium (May, 2008)
""Aleksandr Mitta's Film Someone's Ringing, Open Up! (1965)."" Article entry: Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (Summer 2008)
""The Presumed Threat of Digital Culture to Russian Cinema." Article: Kinokultura (July 2008)
"Oil Money and Obscenity: New Trends in Russian Popular Culture." Talk: Pomona College (October 2008)
Interview on Russian popular music and the web: Experiment.ru (Moscow, November 2008)
Frequent publication in Russian of review articles on Slavic popular music and video for OpenSpace.ru (Moscow), gathered as authorial column:“Golos iz Ameriki” (Voice of America, 2008-2010)
“Muzyka i ‘Russia’,” Transcribed lecture/interview in Troitskii, A. Ia vvedu Vas v mir pop (Moscow, 2009)
“Russian Social Networking Sites: Their Uses and Broader Consequences.” Talk: Washington, DC Directorate of National Intelligence Open Source Center (September, 2009)
“The Russian Music Video and Genre Theory.” Talk: AAASS, Boston (November 2009)
“Russian Cinema and Popular Music: The Rockumentary” Article: Russian Review (October 2010)
Fall 2010 and 2011 graduation from programs in Digital Humanities (Uni. of Victoria) and Network Analysis (Institute for Pure & Applied Math, HASTAC/UCLA).
Introductions and edited chapters for Directory of World Cinema (Intellect: London, 2010. Specifically the chapters “Action Movies” and “Red Westerns.”)
“Ukrainian Tricksters in Popular Performance: Verka Serdiuchka.” Talk: AAASS, Los Angeles, November 2010.
“Web-Based Pedagogy and Russian Culture.” Talk: Connecticut College (Feb. 2011)
“Russian and Scottish Popular Song: Web-Based Influences.” Scotland-Russia Forum (Feb. 2011)
“Slavic Song Online: Parallels with Western Practice.” ASEEES Bulletin (March, 2010)
“Online Literature Aggregators in Russia and Ukraine: Some Problems and Networking Solutions.” Talk: Oxford University (March 2011)
PUBLISHED REVIEWS
Batkin, L. Tridtsat’ tret’ia bukva
Strizhevskaia, N. Pis’mena perspektiva
Grebenshchikov, B. Pesni / Ne Pesni
Bezrodnyi, M. Konets tsitaty.
Brodskii, I. Brodskii o Tsvetaevoi
Akhmadulina, B. Sozertsanie stekliannogo sharika
Shvarts, E. Zapadno-vostochnyi veter
Bitov, A. V chetverg posle dozhdia
Kenzheev, B. Sochinitel’ zvezd
Novikov, D. Karaoke
Volkov, S. Conversations with Joseph Brodsky
Beliakov, B. Alka, Allochka, Alla Borisovna
Pelevin, V. Generation ‘P’
Epshtein, M. Bog detalei
Roll, S. Contextualizing Transition
Utesov, L. Spasibo, serdtse!
Safoshkin, V. Gori, gori, moia zvezda
Kraineva, N. and Perezhogina, E. Boris Kuzin: Vospominaniia...
Gutkin, I. The Cultural Origins of the Socialist Realist Aesthetic
Riazanov, È. and Braginskii, È. Tikhie omuty
Safoshkin, V. Liubov’ nechaianno nagrianet
Man’kovskaia, N. Èstetika postmodernizma
Epstein, M. Russian Postmodernism
Sekatskii, A. Soblazn i volia
These reviews, listed here chronologically, were all published in World Literature Today.
For Russian Review:
K. Ryan and B. Scherr, Twentieth-Century Russian Literature.
For Slavic Review:
Milne, L. Reflective Laughter (Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture).
Asafyev, B. Symphonic Etudes: Portraits of Russian Operas and Ballets
Fairclough, P. and Fanning, D. (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich.
For Antropologicheskii forum:
Kuklulin, I., Lipovetskii, M., and Maiofis, M. (eds.) Veselye chelovechki: Kul’turnye geroi sovetskogo detstva.
For Modern Language Review:
S. Zizek, Revolution at the Gates
D. Gillespie, Russian Cinema
F. Beardow, Little Vera
Kelpley, V. The End of St. Petersburg
Gronow, J. Caviar and Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin’s Russia
Franklin, S. and Widdis, E. National Identity in Russian Culture
Fleishman, Goelz, Hansen-Love (eds.) Analysieren als Deuten
M. Garcelon , Revolutionary Passage. From Soviet to Post-Soviet Russia, 1995-2000.
For Canadian-American Slavic Studies:
D. Pesmen, Russia and Soul
For University of Toronto Quarterly:
N.N. Sheidman, Russian Literature 1995-2002.
Submitted articles regularly reviewed for Slavic Review, the MLA, MLR, Slavic Review, SEEJ, SRSC, and other journals.
Russian and Uzbek films for Kinokultura:
“Progulka” (Aleksei Uchitel’, 2003)
“Nochnoi dozor” (Timur Bekmambetov, 2004)
“Angel na obochine” (Svetlana Stasenko, 2004)
“Alesha Popovich i Tugarin Zmei” (Konstantin Bronzit, 2004)
“Lichnyi nomer” (Evgenii Lavrentev, 2005)
“Malchiki v nebe/Osmondagi bolalar” (Z. Musakov, 2003)
“Piter FM” (Oksana Bychkova, 2006)
“Chashma/Istochnik” (Elkin Tuichev, 2006)
“Zona” (Petr Shtein, 2006)
"Kadetstvo"" (Sergei Arlanov, 2006-2008)
“Plius odin” (Oksana Bychkova, 2008)
“Admiral” (Andrei Kravchuk, 2008)
“Poltory komnaty” (Andrei Khrzhanovskii, 2009)
FUNDING
Conference Travel every year since 1996
Canadian Research Development Fund , 1996
SSHRC, 1997. Three years of work upon the archives of Joseph Brodsky in the National Library of Russia
Burgess Award. University-wide competition (one recipient): Class-release for
1997-8 in order to further research goals
SSHRC, 1998. To fund conference held at Dalhousie in March 1999
Dalhousie Sabbatical Research Grant, 1999-2000
Research Development Fund, 2000
SSHRC, 2001. For major paper conservation, restoration and textological work in the archives of Anna Akhmatova
UCLA. To continue work into Soviet animation and related projects
UCLA. Senate Grant for research into digitizing Soviet song
UCLA. Yearly OID Grants for cinematic materials
UCLA. CEES conference grants
UCLA (International Institute): Two-year funding to examine cultural change in Central Asia with Tashkent’s University of World Economy and Diplomacy (2003-5)
UCLA. Funds to digitize archival manuscripts of Anna Akhmatova's Poem without a Hero (National Library of Russia)
UCLA. Funds to digitize major Soviet song collections in Russia
UCLA 2007. Funds to research web-based culture and criminality in Russia
UCLA 2008-2009. Funds for research into audio digitizing and archival restoration
UCLA 2010: Funds for the creation of a digital repository (for undergraduate study)
UCLA 2012: Funds for merging 1,00,000+audiovisual files as a single, streaming library. Work in 2013-2016 was self-funded, thus increasing project productivity –and speed.
UCLA 2017-18: Funds to build audio streaming platform
USRF 2020: $100K funds to operate sync/marketing bootcamp for young artists from Eastern Europe
EPIC (Mellon Foundation): Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms: Co-Pi for second half of $5 million grant. Success of EPIC has led to larger Mellon investment in social justice and curricular development at UCLA, focusing on new faculty of color.
Careers in Humanities donor: $60K to fund the services of UCLA Alumni Career Engagement
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
The Creation, Dissemination and Preservation of Literature. Held at Dalhousie, March 4-6, 1999. Three-day conference of writers, journalists (from Zvezda), archivists and conservationists from both Atlantic Canada and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Founder of Russian Association of Atlantic Canada (1998)
Editorial/Advisory Boards Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2008-2013)
Los Angeles Winter Festival of Russian Culture. A combination of new, award-winning films from Cannes and elsewhere (features/documentaries/animation), together with graphic arts, painting, and fashion. Concluded with rock concert at the Roxy on Sunset Strip. (Sole organizer, planner, and fund-raiser: Spring 2009)
Editorial/Advisory Boards, Kinokultura (2009-2013)
Multi-university tours around the Western US for Artemii Troitskii, Russia's most famous media journalist and cultural commentator. (Spring 2008, 2009, and 2010)
Weekly large-screen presentations of Russian films (Canada). No film was shown twice. Seasons included:
“Classics of Soviet Cinema”
“Comedies of Eldar Riazanov”
“Films of (and Starring) Nikita Mikhalkov”
“Films of Andrei Tarkovskii”
“Classics of Soviet Cinema”
“Silent Movies in Pre-Revolutionary Russia”
“Films of the Thaw”
“Russian Film After World War Two”
“Films of Mark Bernes”
“Movies of Perestroika”
“The Role of Song in Soviet Cinema”
“Contemporary Police / Mafia Drama for Russian Television”
“The History of Soviet Animation”
“Russian Literature and World Cinema”
“Recent NIKA Awardees.”
Ongoing private audio-collection of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Baltic, and Uzbek songs/compositions (approximately 2 million at present)
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Planning Committee, Dalhousie University European Studies Program 2001
Co-editor of philological Quarterly Russian Studies (St. Petersburg, Russia) 1999-2001 in cooperation with the State Hermitage Museum and St. Petersburg State University.
ISOP Center (European and Russian Studies Fac. Advisory Comm.), UCLA 2001-2
Center for Digital Humanities Faculty Advisory Committee (Chair in 2004)
Department representative to Legislative Assembly, UCLA until 2012)
Lenart Committee for Graduate Research, UCLA 2002-2005
UCLA Slavic Dept. Library, Reading Room, Graduate Colloquium and Internet Committees 2001-2011
UCLA Slavic Dept. Graduate Student Recruitment since 2002; Budget after 2006.
Same responsibility held in Comparative Literature 2012-2016
UCLA Distance Learning and Center for Digital Humanities Affiliated Faculty
UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Committee (2007-2011)
UCLA Academic Assembly (2006-present)
Departmental Chair, UCLA Slavic Studies (2007-2010)
UCLA Digital Humanities and Media Studies, Faculty Member (2007-)
Russian Guild of Cinema Critics (Moscow) 2007-
Editorial/Advisory Board, Kinokultura (UK/US [2008-2018])
Editorial/Advisory Board, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2008-2015)
UCLA Faculty Executive Committee (representing the following departments: French/Francophone Studies; Germanic Languages; Italian; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Slavic Languages and Literatures; Spanish & Portuguese) 2009-2011
UCLA Arts Initiative Faculty Selection Committee (since 2008)
Co-Director, Russian Flagship Program (UCLA/American Councils for International Education, 2009-2012)
Associate Dean (Humanities, UCLA) 2010-2012
Comparative Literature Undergraduate Advisor, 2015-2017
Chair, UCLA General Education Review (Arts and Humanities), 2017
Chair, Dept of Comparative Literature, 2017-2019
UCLA Committee on Teaching, 2019--
Faculty Co-Lead, EPIC (Mellon): Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms
Faculty Lead, Health Humanities initiative (with DGSOM and Public Health)
EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES
Founder of Russian Association of Atlantic Canada (1998)
Editorial/Advisory Boards Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2008-2013)
Editorial/Advisory Boards, Kinokultura (2009-2013)
Weekly large-screen presentations of Russian films (Canada). No film was shown twice. Seasons included:
“Comedies of Eldar Riazanov”
“Films of (and Starring) Nikita Mikhalkov”
“Films of Andrei Tarkovskii”
“Classics of Soviet Cinema”
“Silent Movies in Pre-Revolutionary Russia”
“Films of the Thaw”
“Russian Film After World War Two”
“Films of Mark Bernes”
“Movies of Perestroika”
“The Role of Song in Soviet Cinema”
“Contemporary Police / Mafia Drama for Russian Television”
“The History of Soviet Animation”
“Russian Literature and World Cinema”
“Recent NIKA Awardees.”
Ongoing private audio-collection of Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Baltic, and Uzbek songs/compositions (approximately 2 million at present).
EARLY CONFERENCES/FESTIVALS STAGED
The Creation, Dissemination and Preservation of Literature. Held at Dalhousie, March 4-6, 1999. Three-day conference of writers, journalists (from Zvezda), archivists and conservationists from both Atlantic Canada and St. Petersburg, Russia.
Multi-university tours around the Western US for Artemii Troitskii, Russia's most famous media journalist and cultural commentator. (Spring 2008, 2009, and 2010)
Los Angeles Winter Festival of Russian Culture. A combination of new, award-winning films from Cannes and elsewhere (features/documentaries/animation), together with graphic arts, painting, and fashion. Concluded with rock concert at the Roxy on Sunset Strip. (Sole organizer, planner, and fund-raiser: Spring 2009)
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
Dalhousie University Student Affairs Committee 1997-2001
Planning Committee, Dalhousie University European Studies Program 2001
Co-editor of philological Quarterly Russian Studies (St. Petersburg, Russia) 1999-2001 in cooperation with the State Hermitage Museum and St. Petersburg State University.
ISOP Center (European and Russian Studies Fac. Advisory Comm.), UCLA 2001-2
Center for Digital Humanities Faculty Advisory Committee (Chair in 2004)
Department representative to Legislative Assembly, UCLA until 2012)
Lenart Committee for Graduate Research, UCLA 2002-2005
UCLA Slavic Dept. Library, Reading Room, Graduate Colloquium and Internet Committees 2001-2011
UCLA Slavic Dept. Graduate Student Recruitment since 2002; Budget after 2006. Same responsibility held in Comparative Literature 2012-2016
UCLA Distance Learning and Center for Digital Humanities Affiliated Faculty
UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Committee (2007-2011)
UCLA Academic Assembly (2006-present)
Departmental Chair, UCLA Slavic Studies (2007-2010)
UCLA Digital Humanities and Media Studies, Faculty Member (2007-)
Russian Guild of Cinema Critics (Moscow) 2007-
Editorial/Advisory Board, Kinokultura (UK/US [2008-2018])
Editorial/Advisory Board, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2008-2015)
UCLA Faculty Executive Committee (representing the following departments: French/Francophone Studies; Germanic Languages; Italian; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Slavic Languages and Literatures; Spanish & Portuguese) 2009-2011
UCLA Arts Initiative Faculty Selection Committee (since 2008)
Co-Director, Russian Flagship Program (UCLA/American Councils for International Education, 2009-2012)
Associate Dean (Humanities, UCLA) 2010-2012
Comparative Literature Undergraduate Advisor, 2015-2017
Chair, UCLA General Education Review (Arts and Humanities), 2017
Chair, Dept of Comparative Literature, 2017-2019
UCLA Committee on Teaching, 2019--
Faculty Co-Lead, EPIC (Mellon): Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms
Faculty Lead, Health Humanities initiative (with DGSOM and Public Health)
