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CURRICULUM VITAE

OLEG MININ

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Southern California, LA
Taper Hall of the Humanities 255
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Tel: (213) 740 - 2735
Fax: (213) 740 - 8550
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2008 Ph.D. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Dissertation Title: “Art and Politics in the Russian Satirical Press, 1905-1908.”

1995 M.A. in Russian Literature, University of Waterloo, Ont., Canada.

Thesis Title: “A. Schopenhauer and F. Dostoevsky: Some Philosophical and Literary Parallels.”

1993 B.A. in Slavic Studies, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.

1990 International Baccalaureate, Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Canada.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTOR, Modern Languages and Literatures, California State University, Los Angeles, Current

· First Year Russian.

INSTRUCTOR, Language Arts Division, Glendale Community College, Current

· Beginner Russian.

INSTRUCTOR, Russian Language Immersion Residential Program, California State University, Northridge, Summer 2008.

· Intermediate Russian Conversation.

ASSISTANT LECTURER, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.

· Taught First Year Russian.

LECTURER, Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign

Languages, University of California, Riverside, April – June 2004.

· Designed and taught “Introduction to Russian Culture” and second year Russian language course.

SUBSTITUTE LECTURER, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, February 2004.

· Designed and taught two undergraduate Russian art history classes – Romanticism and Realism in Russian Art and Literature: Kiprensky/Pushkin, Ivanov/Gogol, Briullov, Venetsianov, Dostoevsky/Perov.

ASSISTANT LECTURER AND TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, Fall 2002 - Spring 2003.

· Taught First Year Russian Language Course; Assisted Dr. Bowlt with the Thematic Options class “Modern Russian Art: Russian Art of the Late 19th and 20th Centuries.”

INSTRUCTOR, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Victoria, Fall 1998 - Spring 2001.

· Russian literature courses designed and taught: Russian and Soviet Literary Classics in Translation (Pushkin, Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pasternak, Babel, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn); A semester long seminar in Chekhov’s fiction and drama.

· History of Russian civilization courses designed and taught: Aspects of Russian Medieval, Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet History and Culture.

· Russian language courses taught: first, second, third and fourth year Russian language courses; fourth year Russian grammar; first and second year Russian language laboratory.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of Slavic and Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Waterloo, Fall 1993 – Spring 1995.

· Taught a poetry class to the fourth year Russian language students;

· Research assistant to Dr. Heier, Department of Slavic and Germanic Languages and Literatures.

PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK REVIEWS

“P. Filonov’s Chant of Universal Flowering: The Enigma of Literary Experimentation and the Ambiguity of Genre,” eds. Nicoletta Misler, Irina Menshova, and John Bowlt Experiment. The Journal of Russian Culture 11 (2006): 83-106.

A. Donskov, T. Nikiforova, J. Woodsworth, Sergei Tolstoy and the Doukhobors: A Journey to Canada (Diary and Correspondence) Canadian Slavonic Papers XLI. 2 (June 1999): 239-240.

Lesley Milne, ed. Reflective Laughter: Aspects of Humor in Russian Culture (London: Anthem Press, 2004) Slavic and East European Journal 49. 3 (2005): 500-502.

Danzig Baldaev, Sergei Vasiliev, and Alexei Plutser-Sarno, Russian Criminal Tattoo

Encyclopedia, trans. Andrew Bromfield (Göttingen: Steidl/Fuel, 2003). Slavic and East European Journal 50.3 (2006): 557-558.

CONFERENCE PAPERS, TALKS AND PUBLIC LECTURES

Art and Politics in the Russian Satirical Press, 1905-1908, at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 3, 2008.

Revolution and Kramola in the Satirical Press of the Russian Right, 1906-1908, at CAS (Canadian Association of Slavists), Saskatoon, May 2007.

Hypostases of Ultimate Liberation: Mystical Anarchism in the Context of the Journal of Political

Satire “Adskaia pochta” (1906), at AATSEEL, Philadelphia, December 2006.

Political Syncretism and Artistic Synthesis in Satirical Journals Bugbear and Hellish Post, 1905-1906, at CAS (Canadian Association of Slavists), Toronto, May 2006.

The Aesthetics of Ideology: Art and Politics in Russian Satirical Journals of 1905-1906, at the California Slavic Colloquium, USC, Los Angeles, April, 2006.

Catherine the Great’s Satirical Progeny: Feodor Emin’s Hellish Post and its fin-de-sciècle Reincarnations, at the California Slavic Colloquium, Berkeley, April, 2005.

Iakov Chernikhov: The Magic of a Paradox (Creative Legacy of the Soviet Artist-Architect Revisited), at the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, University of Southern California, April 2004.

Pavel Filonov’s “Chant of Universal Flowering”: The Enigma of Literary Experimentation and the Ambiguity of Genre, at the Slavic Graduate Student Colloquium, UCLA, April 2004.

The Grotesque in the Literary and Visual Output of the Russian Satirical Weekly Journal “Satirikon,” at AATSEEL, San Diego, California, December 2003.

Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” in the Context of the Writer’s Life and Work. Opening talk at the Phoenix Theatre’s première of “The Seagull.” University of Victoria (Canada), May 1998.

The Art of Russian Icon Painting: History and Technique. Guest lecture at the University of Victoria, January 2000.

Current Political, Economic and Cultural Trends in Post-Soviet Russia. Guest lecture at the University of Victoria, March 1998.

RESEARCH AND CREATIVE PROJECTS

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-garde, Getty Research Institute.


Nikolai Remizov and the Art of Caricature.

Literary and Artistic Polemics of the Second Decade of the 20th Century: A Critical Reception of the Futurist Poetry and Art in Russia, 1912-1919.

The Art of Costume Design in the Context of Russian Turn of the Century Dance Culture, 1909 1923.

The Aesthetics of Ideology: Art and Politics in Russian Satirical Journals of 1905-1906.

Political Syncretism and Artistic Synthesis in Satirical Journals Zhupel and Adskaia Pochta, 1905-1906.

Satirical Journals of the Russian Right, 1906-1908.

Defender of the Russian Land: Aleksei Tolstoy in the Satirical Journals of the Russian Right, 1906-1908.

Russian Symbolist artist Nikolai Konstantinovich Kalmakov (1873-1955): bibliographic research.

Ojai Retreat Russian Cultural Event: Recital of Akhmatova’s and Tsvetaetva’s poetry. (September, 2003)

Distance Learning Project in conjunction with the USC Annenberg Center for Communication (2002 – 2003)

A performative reading of Pavel Filonov's Propoven' o prorosli mirovoi. The Getty Research Institute, September 30, 2005. See also: http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/Filonov/fil_phot_fs.htm

LANGUAGES

Fluent: English and Russian.
Reading: Ukrainian, German, French.
Some spoken: German, French, Greek.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)

CAS (Canadian Association of Slavists)

The Getty Research Institute, Stack Reader.