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Alexandra ArkhipovaCurriculum Vitae |   |
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Russia,
125 267 Moscow,
Russian
State University for the Humanities
Miusskaya
sq. 6.
tel:
+07/499/9734354
fax: +07/495/2505109
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(till
August, 2011)
Germany,
28359, Bremen
Institut
Forschungsstelle Osteuropa,
Klagenfurter
strasse, 3
Universität
Bremen, Deutschland
fon: +49/421/218-69590
fax:
+49/421/218-69607
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field
of research
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Folklore
Studies and Anthropology
Subfields:
(i)
Russian Folklore:
Origin
of new Russian folklore in the Soviet era;
origin
of jokes (anecdotes);
anti-Stalin
folklore
(ii)
Folklore and
ethnography of Siberia, Northern and Central Asia:
Comparative
studies of Siberia, Asia, and North America;
Mongolian
traditional folklore;
Current
state of Mongolian folklore and mythology;
shaman
legends and narratives;
shamanism and
witchcraft in today’s Mongolia
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Current
position
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Research
Fellow (Humboldt
Fellowship) at Institut Forschungsstelle Osteuropa,
Universität
Bremen, Germany;
Senior
Research Fellow,
Dozent
(Assistant Professor),
Centre
for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies, Russian State
University for the Humanities;
www.rsuh.ru,
+7495250668 www.ruthenia.ru/folklore
also:
Coordinator of the research project "Folklore And
Postfolklore"
Book series
editor: "Anthropology/Folklore"
(Objedinennoje Gumanitarnoje Izdatelstvo)
www.ogi.ru
The list of the books is available at http://
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/books2.htm
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visiting
appointments
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2009
01/02-01/05: Visiting
Researcher, Slavic Department, University of Gent, Belgium.
29/12/08 – 26/01.09 – library
grant by Centre
franco-russe de recherche en sciences humaines et sociales de
Moscou for the
research in the Bibliothèque
de documentation internationale contemporaine, Université
Nanterre
2008
15/09-15/12:
Visiting Researcher,
Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Institute, Bremen University
22.09-26.09:
participation
in the international workshop
“Myth and Science: The Representation of the Witch(doctor)and
the Sage in Literature, Arts and Society” at Centre des
Recherches sur l’Imaginaire De Grenoble III, Grenoble, France
2007
15-16/01:
participation
in the international workshop «Post-socialist
jokelore». Tartu,
Estonian Literary Museum. January 15th-16th,
2007.
15/09-15/12:
Visiting
Researcher, Forschungsstelle Osteuropa Institute, Bremen
University.
01/06-30/07:
Visiting Researcher, Slavic Department, University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
2006
05/09–06/20:
Visiting Researcher, University Laval, Quebec, Canada
April:
Library research
grant at Department of Folklore Studies, Institute for Folklore
Research, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2004
02/01
– 04/20: Research
and travel grant of Ford Foundation (# 1015-1063-2) and Institute
of International Education (IIE) for (i) visiting the 33-d Annual
Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, San-Jose, CA,
and (ii) visiting the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
for collaboration with IAS Members.
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Professional
Experience
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2007-present:
Dozent
(Assistant Professor),
Centre for
Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies,
Russian
State University for the Humanities;
2004-present:
Senior Research Fellow,
Centre for
Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies,
Russian
State University for the Humanities;
2000-2004:
Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities,
Russian State University for the Humanities
2000
–present:
Administrator of the site ‘Folklore and Postfolklore’
www.ruthenia.ru/folklore
2002-present:
Coordinator of International Folklore Summer Schools (2002-2005,
Ford Foundation grant 1015-1063-2);
2001
- 2005:
Head of the Humanities Department, Non-profit Educational
Organization “All-Russian Summer School for Gifted Children”.
2003-2004:
Author of Olympiad problems, Annual All-Russian Traditional High
School Olympiad in Linguistics and Mathematics, organized by
Moscow State University and Russian State University for the
Humanities.
1996-1999:
Participant of the research project: "Contemporary Russian
Urban Folklore",
supported
by the Moscow office of the Open
Society Institute.
2000:
Coordinator of the research project: “The Virtual Community of
Russian Folklore Fellows” by Moscow Public Science Foundation
(http://www.mpsf.org/arc_project.html?r=1)
The
project resulted in the creation of “Folklore and Postfolklore”
www.ruthenia.ru/folklore
web-site.
2001:
Research project coordinator: “Russian Urban Folklore on the
Internet”, IREX, 2002.
2002-2004:
Research project participant: "Automatic Rules for Fairy
Tale Structure"
(Russian
Foundation for Basic Research).
2002-2005:
Research project coordinator for the Ford Foundation grant #
1015-1063-2
"Folklore
And Postfolklore" www.ruthenia.ru/folklore
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Teaching
Experience
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1997:
Teacher of Russian Language and Literature, Private School
“Mummi-Trolle”, Moscow.
1998-2001:
Lecturer at the State Lyceum #1525 “Vorobijevy Gory”,
Humanities Faculty,
Course
title: “Mythology”.
1999
- present:
Lecturer at the Non-profit Educational Organization “All-Russian
Summer School for Gifted Children” (Humanities Department).
Courses: “Contemporary Russian Language”;
“Contemporary
Russian Urban Folklore and Traditional Russian Folklore”,
“Introduction to Social Anthropology”. http://lasch.narod.ru/
2003-present:
Course
“Folklore: Oral Traditions” for senior undergraduate students
(the Spring semester); Department of History and Philology,
Russian State University for the Humanities, jointly with Prof.
S.Nekludov.
2004
(November, 1-12):
Lectures at the IV-th International Folklore Summer School
“Semiotics
in Folklore”, organized by RSUH
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/Os_04.htm
2005
(April, 30-9, May):
Lectures at the V-th International Folklore Summer School
“Mythology
as a System”, organized by RSUH
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/vs_05.htm
2005
(October, 28-November, 8):
Lectures at the VI-th International Folklore Summer School
“Folklore and Ritual”, organized by RSUH
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/os_05.htm
2008
(April 30-
May9):
Lectures at
the VII-th International Folklore Summer School “Areal
distribution of folklore traditions”, organized by RSUH
http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/ls_08.htm
2001-present:
teaching in Russian State University for the Humanities(Moscow):
Folklore Studies, Folklore and Power in 1920-1930, Contemporary
Russian urban folklore
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Education
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1999:
Diploma (M.A.
equivalent)
“The Role
Structures in Children’s Jokes”
Supervisor:
Prof. Sergei Yu. Nekludov
grade:
A+
1999-2004:
Postgraduate student at the Institute for Advanced Study in the
Humanities,
Russian
State University for the Humanities
(RSUH)
2004:
Ph.D. Thesis in folklore and language studies: "Anecdote and
its prototype: the origin of texts and constraining of genre",
at RSUH
Thesis supervisor:
Prof. Sergei Yu. Nekludov
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Languages
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English,
Mongolian (reading),
German (reading)
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References
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Prof.
James Bailey, Professor
Emeritus of Slavic Languages,
University
of Wisconsin-Madison,
[email protected]
Prof.
Boris A. Uspenskij,
Istituto
“L’Orientale”, Napoli, Italy.
[University “L’Orientale”], Member of Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Wien [email protected]
Prof.
Andrei L. Zorin,
Professor
of Russian Language,
Fellow, New College of Modern Languages At Oxford University
[email protected]
Prof.
Sergej U. Nekludov,
Director,
Centre of Typological and Semiotics Folklore Studies, Russian
State University for
the Humanities [email protected]
Prof.,
Dr.Yury E. Berezkin,
Head
of the Department of the
Americas,
Museum of
Anthropology and Ethnology (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of
Science, European Institute in St. Petersburg.
[email protected]
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Awards
and
Grants
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2002,
2003: Recipient,
Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grant for young scholars
2004,
Feb.-April:
Recipient, research
and travel grant from the Ford Foundation (i) to visit the 33-th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, San
Jose, CA, and (ii) to visit the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, NJ for collaboration with the IAS Members.
2005-2007:
Participant,
the Dutch-Russian project NVO-RFBR 05-06-89000а
“The Origin Of Russian Avant-garde”
2005-2007:
Project
participant, Russian Foundation for Basic Research 06-06-80-420а
“Area distribution of semantic elements of oral traditions
(based on the materials of East Slavs and Ethnic groups of
Siberia)”
2006-2008:
Recipient, grant
of INTAS 05-1000008-7922 “Reconstruction of prehistoric Eurasian
mythological motif complexes and their most ancient distribution
in connection with genetic data’’
2006-2008:
Recipient,
Grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities #
06-04-00598a “ ‘Russians’ through Russian eyes”
2006-2007:
Participant,
grant of Russian Scientific Foundation for the Humanities with the
Mongolian Academy of Science for field work in Mongolia #
06-01-91916 e/g
2007-2008:
Recipients, Grant “Immanuel Kant” Deutscher Akademischer
Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
2009-2010
– President grant, Russian Academy of Science
2009-2011:
Humboldt Fellowship
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field work
experience
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1999:
participant, linguistic expedition to Russian North
2001:
participant, archeological dig (Paleolithic cave)
August,
2006:
Russian-Mongolian Folklore expedition to Central District of
Mongolia
August-September,
2007:
Russian-Mongolian Folklore expedition to North-West of Mongolia
July-August,
2008:
Russian-Mongolian Folklore expedition to South-East of Mongolia
June,
2009, 2010, 2011:
Field work among Mongolian Kazakhs (Central Kazahkstan)
July-August,
2009:
Russian-Mongolian Folklore expedition to Southern Mongolia
July-August,
2009:
Russian-Mongolian
Folklore expedition to Eastern Mongolia
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