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is Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests include U.S. and Eastern European film and media during the Cold War and after, cultural studies and critical theory; war and nationalism; gender, ethnicity, and religion, and international legal discourses about racial and religious difference. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California at San Diego. Website |
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is Professor of Slavic Linguistics at Princeton University. His interests include Russian and comparative morpho-syntax and morpholexical-syntax. He is the author of The Syntax of Argument Structure (2009). He holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Linguistics from Harvard University. |
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is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washignton. Her research centers on syntactic theory, syntax-semantics interface, and Slavic linguistics. Within these areas, she has worked on issues involving phrase structure, relative clauses, copula constructions, wh-questions, and coordination. She looks at these issues from a crosslinguistic perspective, focusing on what such a perspective contributes to our understanding of the human language faculty. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stony Brook University. Website |
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is Professor and Chair of English at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction (University of Alabama Press, 2002) which examines the relationship of order and disorder in the work of postmodern novelists. His interests also include postmodern theory, chaos and complexity theory, the effect of digital media on fiction and cognition, and language-centered poetics. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University. Website |
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is State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is interested in most areas of the philosophy of mind (except theories of consciousness) and in cognitive psychology. His research for the last decade has been largely concerned with the nature of concepts insofar as it is illuminated by the compositionality of human conceptual systems. Since he thinks that the function of language is to express thoughts and that words meanings are (roughly) concepts, he is interested in works in linguistics and the philosophy of language insofar as they bear on topics like analyticity, the character of lexical content, and the arguments pro and con `lexical decomposition' in syntax. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University Website |
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is Professor of Linguistics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is interested in cross-linguistic studies of sentence processing and prosody; implicit prosody in silent reading; learnability theory; simulation studies of syntactic parameter setting. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. Website |
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is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests are in theoretical phonology, historical phonology, and dialectology. He organizes both the Historical Phonology Reading Group at Edinburgh, and the Manchester Phonology Meeting, one of the UK's leading annual phonology conferences. He holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Website |
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is Assistant Professor of Fim Theory at Stanford University. He has written on cinema and nationalism, psychoanalytic film theory, and experimental cinema, and he co-edited Filosofska igracka (A Philosophical Toy), a selection of Annette Michelson's writings on film and modernist art. His book Disintegration in Frames, about aesthetics and politics in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema, was published in 2007. His teaching brings together his commitment to film as an art form with the study of cinema as a social and cultural phenomenon. He holds a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU. Website |
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is Associate Professor of Theater at Connecticut College. Her research interests include theories of comedy, gender studies, and popular American culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her performance interests include devised theater, comic techniques, and American drama. She teaches courses on performance and the representation of gender and race in dramatic literature and other cultural forms. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in dramaturgy from The Florida State University School of Theater. Website |
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is a lecturer in English and translation studies with the Linguistics and Inter-cultural Communication Program at the School of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. His research interests include 20th century poetry, the theory of metaphor, and film studies, with a particular fondness for American film noir. He has taught at NYI twice, in 2006 and 2007. In 2007 he contributed the chapter on American film to a collection of essays by American and Russian scholars on various aspects of American history and culture. He holds a degree from St. Petersburg State University, School of Philology, and is currently completing his PhD dissertation on the use of metaphor in early twentieth century American poetry. |
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is Professor of Russian and Director of Russian Studies at the University of Rochester. Her publications include Russian Village Prose: The Radiant Past and Russia's Dangerous Texts: Politics Between the Lines, and she teaches a wide range of courses in Russian and European Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Slavic from Cornell University. |
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is Associate Professor of Film and New Media at Purchase College at the State University of New York. He is an artist and film-maker with an interest in the exploration of media art as a mode of cross-cultural discourse. He is the winner of numerous grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Fulbright Fellowships, and he is the creator and director of The Floating Cinema which may make an appearance in St. Petersburg this summer. Website |
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is Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies at Stony Brook University. His dissertation title is Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativing "Chineseness" through the Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film. His areas of interest include Modern Chinese literature and film, Sinophone literature, Asian diaspora studies, Psychoanalysis, Film Theory, Globalization Theory. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative and World Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Website |
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