Teachers
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James Elkins, art historian and art critic, E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also coordinates the Stone Summer Theory Institute. The author of numerous books on visual studies and art theory, among which: Visual Studies: a Sceptical Introduction, Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing, The Domain of Images, How to Use Your Eyes, The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing, Six Stories From the End of Representation. |
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Susan Jaret McKinstry, PhD in English (University of Michigan), teaches narrative theory, 19th century British literature and art, literary theory, film adaptation, creative writing (Professor of English at Carleton College). Jaret McKinstry co-edited Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic (1991), and published articles on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite arts, film adaptation, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Toni Morrison, Ann Beattie, and others. In 2009 – 2012 – Director of Carleton’s Visualizing the Liberal Arts initiative; in 2013 – 2014 Associate Director of the Digital Humanities. Sphere of professional interests: visual studies; Victorian poetry, painting, architecture, and design; narrative theory; adaptation theory; material and digital scholarship. |
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Andrei Gornykh, PhD in Philosophy, lecturer, Professor at the Department of Media at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania), co-director of the Visual and Cultural Studies Laboratory (EHU) and of the regional seminar “Visual and Cultural Studies: Subject, Methods, and Didactic Strategies”. Sphere of professional interests: semiotic theory, methodology of visual studies and film analysis. |
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Dmitri Karpov, specialist in Design (Ural Professional Pedagogical University). From 1988 works in the domain of design and advertising. Chief Executive Officer of “Style Design Invest” studio (from 2002 on), curator of the additional educational course “Design in Interactive Environment” at British Higher School of Art and Design (from 2005 on), reader on special subject «Graphic Design & Illustration» at British Higher School of Art and Design. |
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Diane Nemec Ignashev, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), Class of 1941 Professor of Russian and the Liberal Arts, Chair, Department of Geman and Russian, Carleton College (Minnesota, USA); Lecturer, Department of Discourse and Communication Studies (Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University); member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Teachers of Russian; co-author and designer of the Carleton College Russian Language teaching method (http://russian-pv.carleton.edu/pv2009/); author of multiple works on Russian culture; translator. Sphere of professional interests: film studies, Russian literature and culture, translation theory, academic writing pedagogy, visuality in the humanities. |
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Almira Ousmanova, PhD in Philosophy, Professor at the Department of Media and the Director of MA program in Cultural Studies at the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania). Research interests: genealogy and methodology of visual studies, gender representations in visual arts, Soviet cinema, art and politics. She is the author of Umberto Eco: paradoxes of interpretation (2000) and an editor of several collective volumes: Anthology of Gender Theory (ed., with Elena Gapova, 2000); Gender Histories from Eastern Europe (co-edited with Elena Gapova and Andrea Peto), Bi-Textuality and Cinema (ed., 2003); Gender and Transgression in Visual Arts (ed., 2007), Visual (as) Violence (ed., 2008), Belarusian Format: Invisible Reality (ed., 2008.), Feminism and Philosophy (ed., special volume of journal Topos, 2010). She is an editor-in-chief of a book series in Visual and Cultural Studies (published with EHU Press, Vilnius). |
Program committee
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Ekaterina Kalinina, coordinator of Summer School 2014. PhD in Philology (Lomonosov Moscow State University), specialist in Russian literature of the 20th century. Sphere of professional interest: non-classic prose, Russian and European novel at the turn of the 19th and in the 20th century, comparative literary studies, literature and photography, interchange between philological and visual analysis. |
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Anna Kotomina, PhD in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Studies (Russian State University for Humanities), Associate Professor at the Department of Discourse and Communication Studies, Faculty of Philology (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Head of the Center of Social-Cultural Projects at RSUH, art-director of Circarama, Department of Culture (Moscow). Sphere of professional interests: media theory and history, history of technics. |
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Andrey Logutov, PhD in Philology (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Senior Lecturer at the Department of Discourse and Communication Studies (Faculty of Philology, MSU). Lecturer in Media Theory, History and Theory of Popular Music, and Anthropology of Sound. Fulbright scholarship holder in 2006. Sphere of professional interests: American studies, media theory, history and theory of popular music, anthropology of sound. |
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Polina Rybina, PhD in Philology (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Senior Lecturer at the Department of Discourse and Communication Studies, Faculty of Philology (Lomonosov Moscow State University). Sphere of professional interests: theatre and film semiotics, film theory, film adaptation theory, performance studies. |
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Nina Sosna, PhD in Philosophy (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences), culture expert, Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Humanities at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow (courses for MA students “Introduction to Visual and Cultural Studies”, “Visuality in Modern Culture”). Sphere of professional interests: philosophical anthropology, visual studies, media theory. |
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Tatiana Venediktova, Doctor of Literature, Professor, Head of the Department of Discourse and Communication Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, specialist in literature and culture of the USA. Sphere of professional interests: history of American and West European literature, discourse and communication studies, intercultural communication, aesthetics of literary reception, theory and history of reading practices, comparative culturology. |
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Tatiana Weiser, PhD in Philosophy (University Paris VII), reader in Ethics and Philosophy at the Department of Social Philosophy, Faculty of Public Policy (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration). In 2011 – 2012 – visiting Fulbright scholar at the Washington University Saint-Louis and New York University. Sphere of professional interests: theories of communication, communitarian studies, conflict resolution, ethics. |
Participants
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Ramina Abilova, postgraduate student of the Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (Russia). Sphere of professional interests: visual studies, amateur photography, family photo albums, historiography of photography, cultural memory. |
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Maria Ananina, 5th-year student of the Faculty of Philosophy (Lomonosov Moscow State University), the Department of Philosophy of Language and Communication. Thesis: “The History of Thought Experiments in Analytic Philosophy”. Sphere of professional interests: cognitive aspects of visual perception, visualization of philosophical concepts, optical illusions and the ability to visualize absurd. |
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Olga Blinova, teacher of English and graduate student in Linguistics at MGIMO-University, School of International Journalism, English Department N3. In 2011 – 2012 – Fulbright Russian Language Teaching Assistant at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN. Sphere of professional interests: cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, modes of speech representation, communication studies. |
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Constantin Blokhin, PhD in Economics (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Head of the Department of Economics and Management at Gelendzhik branch of «Kuban State University», reader in economic disciplines. Sphere of professional interests: global economic problems, regional development of Russia, single economic space, visualization in education. |
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Maria Bratolyubova, PhD in History, Associate Professor at the Department of Russian History, Faculty of History at Southern Federal University, Southern Federal University. Sphere of professional interests: political regionalism, features of Russian liberalism, visual dimensions of sociocultural communication. |
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Kristina Burmina, graduate of the Department of History of Foreign Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University). Thesis: “Interpretation of M. Foucault’s Philosophical Methodology in English-speaking Philosophy”. Sphere of professional interests: mutual influence of continental and analytic philosophy. |
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Aleksandra Chernikova, specialist in Philology (Lomonosov Moscow State University), teaches Russian Language and Culture of Speech at non-humanitarian faculties, also works as a tutor of Modern Russian Language and History of the Russian Language. Sphere of professional interests: language history, communication studies, functional study of the Russian language, communication theories, psycholinguistics, Spanish language. |
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Yuliya Detinko, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication at Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk, Russia). Sphere of professional interests: discourse analysis, multimodality, media text, political communication, intercultural communication. |
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Maria Gordeeva, 1st-year postgraduate student at the Faculty of Journalism (Moscow State University), correspondent of Business News Department of RBC. Sphere of professional interests: media in the early 20th century, literary editions of XIX-XX cc., Old Believers’ periodicals, sponsorship in Russian media in the early 20th century. |
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Elena Gordienko, postgraduate student at the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics, Faculty of Philology (Lomonosov Moscow State University). Sphere of professional interests: semiotics, text linguistics, rhetoric, theatre, pedagogy. |
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Evgeniya Kasyanova, MA student at the School of Cultural Studies specializing in Visual Culture (Higher School of Economics), Media Studies teaching assistant. Sphere of professional interests: visual anthropology, contemporary art, media culture, visuality in Brazilian culture. |
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Ekaterina Khovanova, PhD in Sociology, Associate Professor at the Department of Communicative Studies, Advertising and PR (Belgorod State University). Sphere of professional interests: intercultural communications, communication barriers, communication practice in regional universities. |
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Anastasia Klimanova, graduate student (2014) of the Faculty of Philosophy (Lomonosov Moscow State University), the Department of History of Foreign Philosophy. Thesis: “Visuality in Michel Foucault’s Philosophical System”. Sphere of professional interests: visuality in modern French philosophy. |
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Alena Kolyaseva, postgraduate student at the Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Sphere of professional interests: linguistic consciousness, terminology studies, communication. |
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Marina Kryshtaleva, postgraduate student at the Department of Theory and History of Culture Herzen State University), research associate (The State Peterhof Museum-Reserve). Professional interests: visual studies, visual antropology, everyday culture. |
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Ekaterina Levko, PhD in Linguistics, lecturer at the Department of the English Language at the University of Humanities and Social Sciences (St Petersburg). In 2013 – 2014 – visiting Fulbright scholar at the Indiana University (Bloomington, USA). Sphere of professional interests: intercultural communication, anthroponymy, linguistics in country-specific studies. |
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Nataliya Novikova, PhD in Literary Studies (Moscow Lomonosov State University), reader at the Department of Foreign Literature (Faculty of Philology, Moscow Lomonosov State University). Sphere of professional interests: 19th century West European and American literature, Anglo-Hispanic cultural relations, historical imagination and cultural memory, exile and creativity. |
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Valentina Palkova, PhD in Philosophy, Assistant Professor in Stolypin Volga Region Institute of Administration under the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Professional interests: visual studies, visual anthropology, social philosophy. |
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Elizaveta Polukhina, PhD in Sociology, senior lecturer at the Department of Sociological Research Methods, Faculty of Sociology (HSE). Sphere of professional interests: qualitative methods of analysis, methods of on-line analysis, historical memory, social ecology. |
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Olga Popova, PhD in Philosophy (Belgorod State University), reader in Ethics and Philosophy at the Department of Fine Arts, Pedagogical Faculty (Belgorod State National Research University). Sphere of professional interests: art history, communication theories. |
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Julia Rogovneva, postgraduate student at the Faculty of Philology (Moscow State University), assistant at the Department of General and Russian Linguistics at Pushkin State Russian Language Institute. Sphere of professional interests: communicative grammar, culture of speech, linguistic picture of the world, Czech language, German language. |
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Ekaterina Sazonova, graduate in Cultural Studies, MA student of Visual Culture at Higher School of Economics. From 2012 works as an organizer of educational projects for Polytechnic Museum. Sphere of professional interests: popularization of science and methodology of visualization of scientific information, popular culture, critical theory. |
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Marina Shilina, specialist in Journalism, Doctor of Letters, Senior Staff Scholar at the Department of Journalism and the Department of Philosophy (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics. Lecturer in Communication Theory, PR, Journalism, Advertising, and Media. Sphere of professional interests: communication theory, communication in the Internet, media studies. |
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Olga Tikhomirova, linguist (Moscow State University), student of MA course in Linguistics. Sphere of professional interests: theories of communication, communication studies, theory of speech genres, sociolinguistics, text visualizing. |
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Vera Toktarova, PhD in Pedagogy, Head of the Research and Scientific Department, Associate Professor of Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (“Mari State University”, Yoshkar-Ola). Sphere of professional interests: e-learning, information and educational environment, pedagogical innovations, visualization of learning material in computer training systems. |
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Sergei Venidiktov, PhD in Philology (“Journalism” – Institute of Journalism of the Belarusian State University), Associate Professor of Literary Criticism, Professor at the Social and Humanitarian Disciplines Department of the Mogilev Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, journalist of the Mogilev city television “2 channel”. In 2011 – Fulbright visiting scholar at Franklin Pierce University (New Hampshire, United States). Sphere of professional interests: journalism, theory of communication, media and civil society, innovations in the educational environment. |
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Aleksandr Vetushinskiy, 1st-year postgraduate student of the Faculty of Philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State University (the Department of Ontology and Theory of Cognition), works for the Department of Information Policy at the Faculty of Philosophy (MSU) and for Moscow Research Centre for Videogames (under the Faculty of Philosophy, MSU). Sphere of professional interests: materialistic ontologies, scientific research on videogames, technotheology. |
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Nikolay Vokuev, PhD in Cultorology, Associate Professor at the Department of Culturology and Pedagogical Anthropology at Syktyvkar State University. Sphere of professional interests: popular culture, media theory, history of film. |
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Aleksandra Voronina, PhD in Sociology, reader in Sociology and Political Science at the Department of National History, Political Science and Sociology, Faculty of Humanities (Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping). Sphere of professional interests: social anthropology, linguistic anthropology, intercultural communication, comparative management, mediaphilosophy. |
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Artem Zubov, postgraduate student (Lomonosov Moscow State University), reader in Cinema Studies, Science Fiction Studies, and English language (school N1567), in 2013 – 2014 – Fulbright FLTA, teaching assistant of Russian Language in St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN). Sphere of professional interests: science fiction studies, history of Russian and American science fiction, media studies, genre studies. |