Slavic Languages & Literatures 255 Mark Taper Hall University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-4353

1939 N. Kenmore # 205 Los Angeles, CA 90027 415-254-8589 [email protected]

ANASTASIA I. KAYIATOS C URRENT A FFILIATION University of Southern California Provost's Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2012-2014. Chosen from a pool of roughly 900 applicants from 14 different fields based on the university’s belief in the ability of my teaching and research "to move [my] own field forward" and "contribute to the significance of humanities in society at large." Mentor: Professor Sarah Pratt, Slavic, Vice Provost for Graduate Programs, 2012. Mentor: Professor John E. Bowlt, Slavic, 2013-2014.

E DUCATION University of California, Berkeley. Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures; Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality (DEWGS), December 2012. Dissertation, filed August 2012: Silence and Alterity in Russia after Stalin, 1955-1975. Abstract: My dissertation explores the conditions of speech and speechlessness under which the Soviet Union’s “others”—those marked and marginalized by the bodily differences of sexuality, gender, race and disability—came to be as subjects and came together as socialities within late socialism in distinction to an ideal Soviet subject predicated on perfect vocality. Committee Co-Chair: Professor Eric Naiman, Slavic, Comparative Literature. Co-Chair/DEWGS Affiliate: Professor Mel Y. Chen, Gender & Women’s Studies. Advanced to Candidacy (ABD) with High Pass on Qualifying Exams, May 2008. Major Field: Post-Stalin Russian Literature and Dissent. Minor Field: Feminist and Queer Theory. M.A. with Distinction, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Designated Emphasis in Gender and Women’s Studies, May 2006. Reed College, Portland, Oregon. B.A., Russian, May 2002. Thesis: Out of the Closet, Into the Drawer: Anatomizing Evgenii Kharitonov’s Queer Corpus. Awarded William T. Lankford III Humanities Award for outstanding thesis collegewide, 2001-2002. Thesis Adviser: Professor Lena Lencek.

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R ESEARCH A REAS . Present Dissertation-Based Manuscript Project. Suggestive Gestures: Toward a Queer Socialist Aesthetic, a survey of silent performance in the production and policing of sexual difference in Russia during and after the Soviet era. Slavic and Russian Studies Foci. Soviet and post-Soviet culture and politics with special emphasis on post-Stalin Russia. Silent theater and traditions of plasticity. Russian feminism, women’s prose and gay culture. Deaf culture and defectology. Cold war psychiatry. Russian and Soviet realisms and modernisms. Official and popular constructions of race. Discourses of the everyday. Critical Theory and Special Topics. Queer theory. Transnational feminism. Deaf and disability studies. Critical race theory. Cultural studies of affect, sensation and embodiment. Performance and performativity.

P UBLICATIONS . Peer-Reviewed Journal. “Silent Plasticity: Re-Enchanting Soviet Stagnation,” Women’s Studies Quarterly, 40.3-4 The Enchantment Issue (December, 2012); online http://www.feministpress.org/books/enchantment . “Sooner Speaking than Silent, Sooner Silent than Mute: Soviet Deaf Theater and Pantomime after Stalin,” Theatre Survey, 51.1 (May 2010), 5-31; online http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A76veyV3 . Winner of 2011 Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research for best essay written and published in English in a refereed scholarly journal. Honorable mention from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for the Outstanding Article in a Journal Award for 2011. “Govoriashchie v bezzvuchii: Skoree molchalivy, chem nemy. Sovetskii teatr glukhikh i pantomima posle Stalina,” Zhurnal issledovanii sotsial'noi politiki [Journal of Social Policy Studies], 10.2 Istoriia invalidnosti v Rossii [Disability in Russia] (2012), 213-234; online http://ecsocman.hse.ru/mags/jsps/2012-10-2/56660401.html . “Homosexuality as Ontological Taint: The Literary Reputation of Evgenii Kharitonov in PostSoviet Russia” with Evgenii Bershtein, under ‘revise and resubmit’ at Slavic Review. Invited Contributions. “Igra [Play].” In Russian Performances. Julie Buckler and Julie A. Cassiday, eds. (forthcoming). “The Day the World Turned Day-Glo’: Pussy Riot and the Politics of Non-Identity.” Slavic Review, thematic cluster on Pussy Riot edited by Eliot Borenstein (forthcoming). Anthology. “El silencio racial en la Rusia post-estalinista: ¿Pueden hablar los subalternos?” [The Silence of Race in Post-Stalin Russia: Can the Socialist Subaltern Speak?]. In Raza, política y género Cuadernos de Astrolabio. Alejandra Martinez and Aldo Merlino, eds. (Editorial Universitaria Villa María, 2012). 2

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P UBLICATIONS C ONTINUED . Online Publication. “El silencio racial en la Rusia post-estalinista: ¿Pueden hablar los subalternos?” Astrolabio, 6 (2011); online http://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/astrolabio/article/view/322/320 . “The Shocking Soviet Century: Or, How Russia Learned to Stop Worrying and Love (Like) the West.” Thinking Gender Papers. Los Angeles: UCLA Center for the Study of Women (2007); online http://escholarship.org/uc/item/339332p0 . Book Review. Review of Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia, by Deborah Field, Women East-West, 95 (Summer 2008), 6-7; online http://www.awsshome.org/newsletter/WEW_summer08_email.pdf . Review of Other Russias: Homosexuality and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Identity, by Brian James Baer, Slavic and East European Journal (forthcoming). Translation. V. Palennyi and V. Skripov, “Volume 3 Summary.” In idem, История Всероссийского общества глухих [History of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf], vol. 3 (Moscow: VOG, forthcoming 2012); “Volume 2 Summary.” In idem, История Всероссийского общества глухих, vol. 2 (Moscow: VOG, 2011). Vitalii Patsiukov, “Absolute Space and True Movement.”/«Абсолютное пространство и истинное движение» for the art-installation “My Garden”/«Мой сад» by Oleg Koshelets (Moscow, Russia: A3 Gallery/Галерея А3, February-March 2010).

H ONORS , F ELLOWSHIPS & A WARDS . Interdisciplinary and Dissertation Awards. •

Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011.

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Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2009-2010.

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Berkeley Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009.

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Mellon Discovery Fellowship, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2004-2007.

Research Awards and Grants. •

Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies (BPS) Summer Research Grant, 2010.

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Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Graduate Student Research Prize, Official Honorable Mention, Fall 2009.

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BPS Field Research Grant, Summer 2009.

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Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Graduate Student Stipend, UC Berkeley, Fall 2007; Fall 2008; Fall 2009. 3

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Language Study and Travel Grants. •

Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, Fall 2005; Fall 2008; Fall 2010.

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Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for summer Russian study, 2005; 2009.

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Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, Spring 2006.

T EACHING A WARDS & D EVELOPMENT Awards. •

Townsend Center Norman Jacobson Award for a teaching-related project, “Taking Social Construction Seriously,” 2010-2011.

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Teaching Effectiveness Award, “(Feminist) Dreams Really Do Come True,” UC Berkeley, 2010; online http://gsi.berkeley.edu/awards/tea_essays/kayiatos-2010.html .

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Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Slavic, UC Berkeley, 2009.

Professional Development. •

Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, UC Berkeley, GSI Teaching & Research Center, May-June 2011.

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Workshop Leader: “Asking Good Questions.” UC Berkeley Teaching Conference. GSI Teaching and Resource Center, August 2010.

T EACHING E XPERIENCE Professor, Arts & Letters General Education, University of Southern California. Sole responsibility for twice-weekly meetings and biweekly office hours of humanities course capped at 30 students, and designed to encourage the critical analysis of literary and other cultural texts with disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods; course designer; proposed special event for class and broader USC community; maintenance of courseware website (Blackboard). •

The Cold War Gets Hot. USC, Spring 2013. Awarded GE Course Enhancement Fund for special curriculum-inspired event.

Instructor, Slavic Reading & Composition, UC Berkeley. Sole responsibility for twice or thrice-weekly meetings and biweekly office hours of universitywide classes required of all undergraduates and capped at 17 students; sole course designer; maintenance of courseware website (bSpace) and class blog. •

Silent Subjects. UC Berkeley, Fall 2011; online http://silentsubjects.blogspot.com/.

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The Cold War Gets Hot: Sex and Gender in First and Second World Literatures. 6-week summer intensive with research component. UC Berkeley, Summer 2011; Summer 2010; online http://coldwargetshot2.blogspot.com/.

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High Art: The Fiction of Addiction. UC Berkeley, Fall 2006; Spring 2007. 4

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T EACHING E XPERIENCE C ONTINUED . Co-Instructor, Gender & Women’s Studies. •

Senior Seminar (GWS 195), Professor Charis Thompson. UC Berkeley, Fall 2009. Co-facilitator of weekly writing workshops; advised advanced undergraduate research and composition; grader.

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Introduction to Gender and Women’s s Studies (GWS 10), Professor Barbara Barnes. UC Berkeley, Spring 2009; Professor Ayse Agis, Spring 2012. Leader of two 25-student weekly discussion sections; grader. Awarded for effective teaching methods, including a collaborative theory glossary.

Instructor, Foreign Language. •

Russian Intensive (Slavic 10). UC Berkeley, Summer 2008. Curriculum equivalent to second-semester language class; independently taught two of four-hour daily language class of 25 students; co-organized weekly film series.

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Beginning Russian (Slavic 1). UC Berkeley, Fall 2007; Spring 2008. Award-winning instruction; sole responsibility for daily class; curriculum innovation.

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Russian Language Peer Tutor. Reed College, Russian Department, 2001-2002.

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English Language Tutor to Russian Language Scholar. Reed College International Programs, 1999-2000.

Course Reader. Grader; advised students on reading and composition during biweekly office hours. •

The European Novel (English 133/Slavic 125), Professor Irina Paperno, UC Berkeley, Fall 2009.

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Nabokov (Slavic 134/English 166), Professor Eric Naiman, UC Berkeley, Spring 2006.

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Writing Tutor. Coached peers in paper conception, composition and editing. Reed College Writing Center, 1999-2000

G UEST T EACHING L ECTURES . 2011. “Queer Children of the Revolution.” Experimental Video 2. Oakland, CA: Mills College, September 14. 2011. “Venedikt Erofeev’s Moscow to the End of the Line.” Slavic 46: Twentieth-Century Russian Literature Survey, Polina Dimova, Ph.D. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley, April 20. 2007. “Pushing Buttons: MADness and the Cold War.” American Studies 101: The Atomic Age and Cold War Culture, Professor Christine Palmer. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley, November 27.

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P RESENTATIONS & I NVITED L ECTURES . Conference Presentations. 2013. “What is Socialist Unrealism? Queer Negativity and Camp in the Camp.” Modern Language Association (MLA): Gay Culture in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Boston, MA: January 3; Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES): Bad Subjects of Late Socialism. New Orleans, LA.: November 18, 2012. 2011. Dis/Abling Slavic Studies Roundtable. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Washington, D.C.: November 18. 2011. “The Silence of Race, The Gender of Speech.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women: Representations of Race and Gender on the Global Stage. Amherst, MA: June 10. 2011. “Enchanting Stagnation: The Politics of Silence in Late-Soviet Pantomime.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA): Sound Politics. Vancouver, Canada: April 3. 2010. “Silent Islands, Enchanted Subversions: Soviet Queer-Deaf Pantomime in the Era of Stagnation.” American Society for Theatre Research: The Body (Un) Censored: Eastern European Performance and Physical Politics. Seattle, WA: November 19. 2010. “Plastic People of the Universe: Soviet Pantomime and Queer-Deaf Experience,” Undoing Eros: Love and Sexuality in Russian Culture: The Russian Body. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, October 23. 2010. “Feeling Plastic: Soviet Pantomime and Queer-Deaf Phenomenology.” UCLA Queer Studies Conference: The Queer Senses. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA, October 9. 2010. “Market Totalitarianism, or ‘Opulence, I Has It,’” with Nina Aron, Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Austin: University of Texas, October 1. 2009. “The Silence of Race in Post-Stalin Performance,” American Association for Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL) Annual Meeting: Vexed Forms of Race and Speech in Soviet Culture. Philadelphia, PA: December 29. 2009. “Political Speech, Artistic Silence: The Pathology of Soviet Pantomime after Stalin.” Literature and Pathology. Davis, CA: UC Davis, May 23. 2008. “From Dirty Minds to Docile Bodies: Shock Therapy and the Sexing of Late-Soviet Dissent.” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS): Gender and the Cold War. Philadelphia, PA: November 22; and German Studies Association. St. Paul, MN: October. 2007. “Painful Perversities: Shock Therapy and the Psychopathology of Late-Soviet Dissent.” Queerness and Violence: Perverting National Borders. Davis, CA: UC Davis, June 2. 2007. “On Account of Another: The Poetics of Indebtedness and the Writing of the Russian Literary Self.” Foreclosure and Forgiveness. Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture: Indebted Identities: Poet, Congregant, Citizen. New York: New York University, March 31. 2007. “The Shocking Soviet Century: Or, How Russia Learned to Stop Worrying and Love (Like) the West.” 17th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference: Queer Bodies and Nations. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA, February 2. 2006. “Andrei Platonov's Sentimental Journey: Gender Transitions, Genders in Transition, and the Gendering of Transition in ‘Semen.’” AAASS: Andrei Platonov in the 1930s. Washington, D.C., November 19. 6

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2005. “Na chuzhoi schet: The Poetics of Indebtedness and the Writing of the Russian Literary Self.” ATSEEEL: Russian Realism Reconsidered. Washington, D.C., December 29. 2005. “’Desire for Desires’ [Zhelaniia zhelanii]: Platonic Eros and Polymorphous Sexualities in Anna Karenina.” UC Berkeley: California Slavic Colloquium, April 16. 2001. “The Work and Literary Reputation of Evgenii Kharitonov,” with Evgenii Bershtein. AAASS: Poets Write Prose: Russian Contemporary Authors. Washington, D.C., November 8. Invited Lectures and Colloquia. 2013. Luncheon Colloquium. The Russian and German Department and the Oldenborg Language Center. Claremont, CA: Pomona College, date TBD. 2012. Brown-bag talk for the Gender Studies Program at the Center for Feminist Research. Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California, December 10. 2012. “Gut Symmetries: The Modernist Body (Again),”An Extended Family – Russian Modernism in International Context. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley, October 20. 2012. “Everything you ever wanted to know about Pussy Riot,” with Brad Damare. Women’s Student and Queer & Ally Student Assemblies. Los Angeles, CA: USC, September 19. 2010. “Men and Maggots/Maggots and Men: From Eisenstein’s ‘Tainted Meat’ to Cronenwett’s Radical ‘Beefcake,’” Williamsburg, VA: William & Mary College, September 16. 2010. “Second World Modernity and Sexuality,” brown-bag talk with Roy Chan. Williamsburg, VA: William & Mary College, September 16. 2010. “Race, Sexuality, and Disability in Soviet Pantomime after Stalin: Can the Subaltern be Silent?” Center for Race and Gender. Speaking Through Silence & Erasure: Race, Sexuality, & Expression in Marginalized Language Communities. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley, March 18. 2009. “Trans/Forming Socialism: Russian Revolutions in Gender.” Queering Socialism Symposium. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley, May 6. 2007. “Queering Uncanny Cinema: A. Sokurov’s Father and Son." Slavic Colloquium with Evgenii Bershtein. Sokurov and Pornography. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley, October 29. 2001. “Homosexuality as Ontological Taint: The Literary Reputation of Evgenii Kharitonov in Post-Soviet Russia” with Evgenii Bershtein. The Ruby Seminars in the Humanities. Portland, OR: Reed College, October 24. Research Workshops and Fellowships. 2012. University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI): Arts Inclusion: Disability, Design, Curation. Irvine, CA: UC Irvine, June 12-20. 2011. “In Mind and Memory” Research Symposium with Visiting Artists and Scholars from the University of Gothenburg. Berkeley, CA: Worth Ryder Art Gallery, October 3. 2009. “FRICTION: Dissertation Workshop.” Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Sexual Culture. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley, December 6. 2009. “Writing Voice.” Convened by voxTAP: voice in theory, art and practice. Berkeley, CA: Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley, December 3. 7

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R ESEARCH & P ROFESSIONAL E XPERIENCE . •

Worlds of Wonder: The Queerness of Childhood. Williams College, May 3-5, 2013. Co-organized with Professor Anna Fishzon an interdisciplinary conference on queer children and the queerness of childhood, bringing together emergent and established scholars and clinicians working at the intersections of childhood studies, psychoanalysis, psychology, pedagogy, and queer theory. Proceedings will be compiled for publication.

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Socialisms & Sexualities Working Group Organizer. UC Berkeley, 2008-present. Devised interdisciplinary curriculum for bimonthly meetings, including program of guest speakers; maintained web presence via blog, courseware, and social networking sites; coordinated with other campus groups; online http://socialismsandsexualities.blogspot.com .

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Doing Disability Working Group Organizer. UC Berkeley, 2009-2011.

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Graduate Board Representative. Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 2008-2010.

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Conference Chair and Organizer. Queering Socialism Symposium. UC Berkeley, May 2009.

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Organizing Committee Member. Queer Bonds Conference. UC Berkeley, February 2009.

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Journal Editor. qui parle (University of Nebraska Press), Spring 2009.

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Editor and Research Assistant. Provided substantive commentary for Mel Y. Chen, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley, for her dissertation-based book manuscript on queer animacies and inanimate intimacies, Spring-Summer 2008.

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Townsend Center Research Assistant. Conducted bibliographic research for Professor Mel Y. Chen of Gender and Women’s Studies, Summer 2007.

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Townsend Center Research Assistant. Conducted research on “perversion” in Nabokov critical literature for Professor Eric Naiman of Slavic and Comparative Literatures, Summer 2006.

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Research Assistant. Editorial work for Irina Paperno, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley, for her article, “Intimacy and History. The Gercen Family Drama Reconsidered,” Russian Literature, vol. 61, Issues 1-2 (January-February 2007), Fall 2005.

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Research Assistant. Evgenii Bershtein, Professor of Russian, Reed College, 2001.

C OMMUNITY S ERVICE . •

Graduate Student Guide for the James Castle Retrospective. Berkeley Art Museum, 2010.

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Legal Clerk. Transgender Law Center, San Francisco, Fall 2008.

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Festival and Events Volunteer. Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco, Summer 2008-2011.

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L ANGUAGE S TUDY Languages: English, Russian; Reading/Basic: Old Church Slavic, German, French, ASL. •

American Sign Language. City College of San Francisco, Spring 2010; Spring 2011.

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Russian Language Tutorials. Moscow State University, Summer 2005; Summer 2009.

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German Intensive. Goethe-Institut, Berlin, Germany, Summer 2007.

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Russian Practicum. Columbia University, New York, New York, Summer 2006.

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Russian Language School. Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, Summer 2004. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St Petersburg, Russia, Summer 1999.

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American Comparative Literature Association, 2010-present.

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American Association for Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages, 2004-present.

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American Society for Theatre Research, 2010-present.

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Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 2005-present.

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Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2001-present.

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Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies (BPS), 2008-present.

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Dobro Slovo, National Slavic Honor Society, 2004-present.

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German Studies Association, 2008.

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Modern Language Association, 2012-present.

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Phi Beta Kappa, 2002-present.

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies Queer Caucus Mentoring Program. Mentor: Heather K. Love, 2010-present.

R EFERENCES Eric Naiman, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Dissertation Co-Chair University of California, Berkeley [email protected] 510-642-2979 Mel Y. Chen, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Dissertation Co-Chair University of California, Berkeley [email protected] 510-508-4598 Juana Maria Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies University of California, Berkeley [email protected] 510-642-2767

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