TSQ No. 13 - Biographical Notes

Denis Akhapkin, kandidat in philology, is on the staff of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a senior member of the Laboratory of Cognitive Studies of the Institute of Philological Studies of St. Petersburg University.

Maria Artemchuk defended her Master's dissertation in Russian literature at Tartu University and has published an article on Tituchev.

Jana Berson (Akhapkina), kandidat in philology, is on the staff of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Mikhail Bezrodny completed his PhD at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He currently resides in Bonn. He is the author of Konets tsitaty (1998) and articles on the history and poetics of 20th century Russian literature.

Serhiy Bilenky was a Research Fellow at Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, during the 2004-05 academic year. He has a Candidate of Historical Sciences degree from Kiev University, Ukraine and is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Toronto. He is working on his dissertation, "Eastern Europe in Search of a Nation: Romantic Nationalism and Imagined Communities in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia, 1830s-1840s", which investigates the making and unmaking of national communities in Eastern Europe.

Maria Borovikova has a doctorate in Russian and Slavic philology from the Faculty of Russian Literature, Tartu University. She is editor of the "Anthology of Pushkin Studies" and "Publications" sections on the "Ruthenia" web site. Her main area of interest is the work of Marina Tsvetaeva.

Aleksandr Feldberg, M.A., defended his dissertation of the drama of A.P. Sumarokov.

Ilon Fraiman, B.A., is the chief editor of the "Ruthenia" web site.

Luba Golburt is writing a dissertation, "The Vanishing Point: The Eighteenth Century and the Russian Historical Imagination, 1800-1850," which examines the early-nineteenth-century reception of Russia's recent modernizing past in texts by Derzhavin, Pushkin, Lazhechnikov, Herzen, and others. Her interests include the intersection of historical and fictional writing as well as Classicist and Romantic visual culture.

Timur Guzairov has a doctorate in Russian and Slavic philology from the Faculty of Russian Literature, Tartu University. He is working on a study of the culture of the epoch of Nicholas I.

Deborah Hoffman is an attorney who is pursuing an M.A. in Russian Translation at Kent State University. In 2005 she was awarded a grant from the PEN American Center for the translation of Deti GULAGa and is currently seeking a publisher. She received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University and also studied at the Thorez Institute in Moscow.

Dmitry Ivanov has a doctorate in Russian and Slavic philology from the Faculty of Russian Literature, Tartu University. He headed the Student Scholarly Society and is making a study of the literary work of A. Shakhovskoi.

Vera Kalmykova is a literary specialist and journalist. Her journalistic interest is the development of contemporary culture (literature, art, theatre). Scholarly interests include the works of Valerii Briusov and issues of poetic language.

Igor Kardovskii, B.A., has published articles on poetry.

Sofya Khagi is working on a doctoral dissertation (Silence and the Rest: Verbal Skepticism inRussian Poetic Culture) at Brown University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her publications include articles on Russian Romantic and contemporary poetry and on comparative literature in Slavic and East European Journal, The Russian Review, and other editions.

Henrich Kirschbaum has a doctorate from Regensburg University and has published articles on Mandelshtam and on Russian-German cultural links.

Liubov Kiseleva is editor-in-chief of Trudy po russkoi i slavianskoi filologii. Her main areas of interest are the history and semiotics of Russian literature and culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the history of Tartu University, and the legacy of Iury Lotman. At present she is working on V.A. Zhukovsky.

Tatiana Kuzovkina, M.A., Ph.D., is a member of the Faculty of Russian Literature (Russian and Slavic Philology) of Tartu University. She has written articles on Gogol and recently has been making a study of the literary and journalistic work of F.V. Bulgarin.

Oleg Lekmanov, PhD, is author of the monographs Osip Mandelshtam, and Kniga ob akmeizme; he co-authored the commentary to Almaznyi moi venets.

Maria Maiofis, kandidat in philology, works on the links among literature, politics and social thought in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century. She is editor of the "History" section of Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie.

Elena Nymm, Ph.D., wrote a dissertation entitled The Literary Position of Ieronim Iasinskii (1880s and '90s). She is a lecturer at Narva College, Tartu University.

Kirill Ospovat defended his kandidat dissertation in the Philological Faculty of the Russian State Humanites University. He has published articles on Lomonosov, Sumarokov and Trediakovsky.

Vadim Perelmuter is a poet, literary historian, essayist and translator. Began publishing in 1965. His first volume of poetry "Diary" came out in 1984 and since then he has published two more poetry volumes (1991 and 1997) and a book on Vyazemskii (1993). In all he has contributed to around 20 books, including volumes on Vyazemskii, Sluchevskii, Krzhizhanovskii, Shengeli, Shteinberg, Khodasevich and others, - as compiler, textologist, or author of introductions and commentaries. He has published over 100 articles in periodicals. Perelmuter also worked for 15 years (from 1977) on the editorial staff of "Literature Education". He initially took charge of the poetry section and then, for 12 years, headed literary theory and archival publications.

Maria Pirogovskaia is a graduate of the Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg University. She teaches in a classical gimnaziia in St. Petersburg.

Polina Poberezkina, PhD, is a specialist in the Anna Akhmatova's poetry. She participates in the Internet project Kluevoslov (http://kluev.org.ua) and lives in Kiev, Ukraine.

Maria Reikina is a graduate student at the Russian State Humanities University, where she is writing a study of the work of Mikhail Zoshchenko. She, jointly with O.A. Lekmanov, has compiled a commentary to Valentin Kataev's novel Almaznyi moi venets

Vadim Semenov, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at Narva College, Tartu University. He has published articles on poetry and has recently been studying the work of Iosif Brodsky.

Carmen Siu is pursuing an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

Tatiana Smoliarova has Master's degrees from Moscow State University and the University of Paris IV/La Sorbonne, and a kandidat degree from the Russian State University for the Humanities/La Sorbonne. In 2004-05 she was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University and a Junior Fellow in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Tatiana Stepanishcheva, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Russian Literature (Russian and Slavic Philology) at Tartu University. She has published articles on Zhukovsky.

Serguei Tchougounnikov has a PhD in Linguistics from the State University of Linguistics, Piatigorsk, and a doctorat in Linguistics from the EHESS, Paris. He was a professor of general linguistics at the University of Magnitogrosk until 2001 and then a research fellow and teacher at universities in Sweden, France and Switzerland. His books include Du "proto-phénomène" au phonème : le substrat morphologique allemand du formalisme russe (Kaliningrad, 2002) and Le devenir-anagramme du phonème. Sur les "structures subliminales" dans les poétiques russes - soviétiques (Magnitogorsk, 2002) ; his articles have appeared in scholarly journals in Europe and North America.

Aleksandra Veselova, kandidat in philology, is on the staff of Pushkinskii dom, the Russian Academy of Sciences, in the Section for the Study of Eighteenth-century Russian Literature. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of the History of Russian Literature of St. Petersburg State University. Her area of research is Russian literature of the second half of the eighteenth century and the art of gardens and parks.

Fedor Vinokurov has a B.A. and M.A. from the Faculty of Russian Literature (Russian and Slavic Philology) of Tartu University.

Roman Voitekhovich, Ph.D., is a senior member of the Faculty of Russian Literature (Russian and Slavic Philology) of Tartu University. A specialist in poetry, he has done research on the work of Marina Tsvetaeva.

Elena Zemskova, kandidat in philology, teaches at the Russian State Humanities University.

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