PUBLICATIONS: Since 1970 I've published ca. 190 papers and abstracts (not counting small reviews, obituaries or newspaper articles). They are dealing with the Slavic linguistics, Ethnology (mainly the wedding ritual and other kinds of rites), Folklore (General "narratology", interpretation of some tale-types, reconstruction of Proto-Slavic epics, epic and ritual anthroponomy, folklore and ritual lexicon etc.), poetics and theory of literature, and on Russian literature of 19th and 20th centuries (some theoretical problems and authors including Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Blok, Annenskij, Gumilev, Akhmatova, but most of all - Mandelstam), particularly on the interrelations between literature and folklore.
Conferences
Conferences:
Colloque "L'Humoure europeen", Lublin, Poland, October 1990.
Second Mandelstam Readings, Moscow, January 1991.
Centenary Conference on Mandelstam, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University, July 1991.
Folklore Fellows' Summer School. Turku, Finland, August 1993.
Second International Conference in Memory of A.B. Lord. St.Petersburg, Russia, November 1993.
Sixth Tynyanov Readings, Daugavpils, Latvia, June 1992.
Seventh Tynyanov Readings, Rezekne, Latvia, July 1994.
Ninth Tynyanov Readings, Rezekne, Latvia, August 1998
Tenth Tynyanov Readings, Rezekne, Latvia, August 2000
II Conference on the "Zagreb Conceptual Dictionary of 20 century", Zagreb, Croatia, May, 1994.
III Conference on the "Zagreb Conceptual Dictionary of 20 century", Zagreb, Croatia, April, 1995.
IV Conference on the "Zagreb Conceptual Dictionary of 20 century", Rovinj, Croatia, April, 1996.
Stukturalismus - Osteuropa und die Entstehung einer universalen Wissenschafskultur der Moderne, Technische Universitat. Dresden, 19-24 April, 1995.
III Mandelstam Readings. Voronezh, Russia, June 1994.
Third International Conference in Memory of A.B. Lord. Yakutsk, Russia, August 1994
Fourth International Conference in Memory of A.B. Lord. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1995.
International Conference in commemoration of 100 anniversary of V.Ya. Propp, St. Petersburg, 1995.
International Congress Roman Jakobson Centennial. Moscow, 1996.
International Conference of Soros Foundation "St. Petersburg and Baltic States. Cultural Links in 20th Century" St. Petersburg. 1996.
V Lotman Readings. Moscow 1997.
International Summer Institute in Semiotics, Imatra, Finland, June 1998.
International Summer Institute in Semiotics, Imatra, Finland, June 1999.
International Summer Institute in Semiotics, Imatra, Finland, June 2000.
International Summer Institute in Semiotics, Imatra, Finland, June 2001.
VI Lotman Readings. Moscow December 1998.
IV Mandelstam Readings. Moscow December 1998.
The Culture of Russian Diaspora: V. Nabokov - 100, .Tallinn & Tartu, January 1999.
Unity and Diversity of the Romance World: Language, Art, Culture. International Conference to Honor academician G.V. Stepanov's 80th Birthday (1919-1999). St. Petersburg, April, 1999.
The Kalevala and the World traditional Epics. Turku, Finland (the Kalevala Institute), August 1999.
Symposium "Paradoxes of (in) Russian Literature". Hamburg, Germany, October 1999.
International Conference in Honor of Joseph Brodsky's 50th Birthday. St. Petersburg, "Zvezda" Magazine, January 1991.
International Conference in Honor of Joseph Brodsky's 55th Birthday. St. Petersburg, "Zvezda" Magazine, May 1995.
International Conference in Commemoration of Joseph Brodsky's 60th Birthday, St. Petersburg, "Zvezda" Magazine, May 2000.
Conference in Memoriam Efim Etkind. European University at St. Petersburg, June 2000.
Eurasian spase: Sound and Word. Moscow, Sept. 3-6 2000.
Humanidades - Ciencia - Tecnologias. IX Congresso de Asociacion Espanola de Semiotica. Valencia. Nov.-Dec. 2000.
La semiotique de la peur dans la culture russe. Paris, Sorbonne, Mars 2001.
The "Second Prose": Russian Prose of 1920s-1950s
A Travel in Space and Time. St. Petersburg. Sept. 2001.
Lectures and Courses given in USA, Italy, Estonia, Finland, England
Work experience
Work experience:
1996 - present Professor of the European University at St. Petersburg. Ethnological Faculty.
1989-1996 - since May 1989 a research fellow of the Institute of Ethnology of the USSR Academy of Science (Leningrad Branch), now The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology ("Kunst-Kamera") of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (1989-1991 - junior research fellow, since April 1991 - research fellow, since January 1992-January 1996 - senior research fellow).
1992 - 1994 - part-time lecturer in the St.Petersburg Hebrew University (lecturing in "The General Theory of Folklore and Myth").
1974-1975 - some short-time jobs, including that of a guide in the Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR.
1972-1974 - researcher in training in the Leningrad Theater, Music & Cinema Institute, Folklore Section (two-year term).
