EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Cultural Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), 2002
Master’s Degree in Cultural Studies, Institute for European Cultures (international school founded by Rure University (Germany), School for Social Studies (France) & Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), 1998
Master’s Degree in Russian Language and Literature, Krasnoyarsk State University (Russia), 1994

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• since 2003 – Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Department of Theory and History of Culture (Moscow, Russia) courses taught: The History of European Cinema, The History of Russian Cinema, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, English Language and Culture
  
• since 2005 – Senior researcher, Russian Institute for Cultural Studies (Moscow, Russia)
  
• 2004-2005 – Co-lecturer, International interdisciplinary Internet - course '(Re)Construction of Public Sphere in the Russian Mass Media (TV, Film, and Internet)', an online cooperation between the Lotman Institute for Russian and Soviet Culture (Bochum, Germany), the Institute of European Cultures (Moscow, Russia), the Institute of Sociology (Münster, Germany) and the Kursk State University (Kursk, Russia). http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/seminars/IEK2004-05/home.htm
  
• 2001- 2005 – Educational manager, Institute for European Cultures (Moscow, Russia)
  
• 1996- 2003 – Assistant Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities, Department of Foreign Languages (Moscow, Russia) courses taught: English language and literature, French language and literature
  
• 1994-1996 – Teacher, secondary school (Moscow, Russia) courses taught: English language and literature, Russian language and literature
  
• 1992-1994 – Teacher, secondary school (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) courses taught: English language and literature, Russian language and literature, Latin language

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

• 2007-2009 - Participation in the HESP project “Visual studies of Immedia: Exploring postmodern immediacy of mass media”.
  
• 2006-2007 - Грант РГНФ "Сравнительный анализ изменения роли науки в образовании на примере университетов России и США, проект № 06-01-00229а, исполнитель.
  
• 2006 – Participation in the international conference “Hybridität in Literatur, Kunst und Medien der russischen Moderne und Postmoderne“ (Constance, Germany). Oral presentation. Grant of Volkswagenstiftung.
  
• 2005 - Participation in XXI International Arthurian Conference (Utrecht, Netherlands). Oral presentation. Travel grant from IAS International Committee.
  
• 2004 - 2005 – Participation in international research project «Russian-cyberspace.org: The processes of recreating of Russian identity in RuNet» Grant of Volkswagenstiftung. Joint publication: Control + Shift. Public and Private Usages of the Russian Internet (2006) / Henrike Schmidt, Katy Teubener, Natalja Konradova (Eds.): Norderstedt: Books on Demand. http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/texts/en/control_shift/control_shift.htm, http://www.bod.de/index.php?id=296&auto_id=12075
  
• 2004 – Participation in Interdisciplinary International Conference “(Re) Creating King Arthur” (Winchester, Great Britain). Oral presentation. Travel grant from Russian Federation Ministry for Education.
  
• 2004 – Participation in the seminar “Cosmologies of History”, Central-European University (CEU, Budapest, Hungary). Oral presentation. CEU travel grant.
  
• 2003 – Participation in VI Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities “Reading Everyday life in American and in Russian: American Studies for International Communication”. (Tver, Russia) Oral presentation. Fulbright Program grant.
  
• 2003 – Participation in the Max-Planck-Institute fur Geschichte project 3rd International Summer School on New Directions in History “New Cultural History – Economic History, Environmental History, and History of Technology”.( St. Petersburg, Russia). Oral presentation. Max-Planck-Institute fur Geschichte research program grant.

LANGUAGES: Russian (native), English (fluent), French (fluent).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

• A man from TV audience in news programs of contemporary Russian TV.
  Фигура зрителя в новостных программах современного российского телевидения.
  Article. Media culture of new Russia. Ekaterinburg, 2007.
  Медиакультура новой России. Екатеринбург, 2007.
  
• ‘Family Album’ and Recipes for Happiness: Images of the Ideal Family in Russian TV Commercials and Glossy Magazines.
  Article. Kultura. 2006. N 6 (June). P. 3-7
  http://www.forschungsstelle-osteuropa.de/con/images/stories/pdf/kultura/kultura_6_2006_EN.pdf
  
• Russian History in TV commercials: to have or to be? 
  Article. AB IMPERIO. Studies of New Imperial History
  and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space. 2006. N 1. P. 367 – 384.
  (http://abimperio.net/scgi-bin/aishow.pl?idlang=2&state=shown&idnumb=51)
  
• Kutuzov wears «treugolochka» or History as a brand.
  Article. Rodina. 2006. N 6. P. 16-20.
  
• The culture of Mass Communications. Syllabus of an academic course. in Observatoriya kultury. 2006. N 3. P.99-105.
  
• Construction of “Reality” in Russian Mass Media: News on Television  and in the Internet.
  Article. in "Control + Shift. Public and Private Usages of the Russian Internet".
  /Henrike Schmidt, Katy Teubener, Natalja Konradova (Eds.) Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2006. P.34-50
  http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/texts/en/control_shift/control_shift.htm
  
• University Professors: The structure of activity.
  Article.(With co-authors) in Vestnik KrasGU. 2006. N 6.
  
• Nachrichten nach Wahl?: Repräsentationsweisen der russischen Gesellschaft in den Massenmedien (Fernsehen vs. Internet))
  Abstract. Joint online publication: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/russ-cyb/library/texts/de/sammelband.htm#kratasjuk
  
• “ Updating” legend: Arthurian romance in Russian Internet and advertising // XXI International Arthurian Congress.
  Abstract. in Utrecht, 2005. P.46
  
• The search for History and recreating of Legend/
  Article. (co-author Kalmykova E.) Novoye literaturnoye obozrenie. 2004. N 69.
  http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2004/69/kal38.html
  
• The world as war.
  Article. Novoye literaturnoye obozrenie. 2004. N 68.
  http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2004/68/kra37.html
  
• Representation of the Past in Modern Mass Culture: Arthurian Legend on Film and in Advertising.
  Abstract http://www.wkac.ac.uk/arthur/abstracts/kratassiouk.html
  
• The Representation of the Past in Modern Advertising: Functions of Medieval Elements in the Advertisements of 1995-2003.
  Abstract. http://www.eu.spb.ru/histschool/2003/thesis/kratassiouk.htm
  
• The Representation of Past in Mass Culture of the last third of XX century: Arthurian legend in Film and Advertising. Moscow, 2002.
  
• Appropriation of the Middle Ages: Arthurian legend in Film and Advertising in the end of XX century.
  Article. in Middle Ages.  N 63. М.: Nauka, 2002. P.145 – 153.
  
• It is alive and it gives light.
  Article. in Poisk. 2002. № 661.
  
• The metaphors of Middle Ages: Arthurian legend in Film and Advertising in the end of XX century.
  Article. in Culture ХХ. М., 2001. — P.329-345.
  
• The teaching culturology: from the present to what is wished.
  Article. in Culture ХХ. М., 2001. — P.111-118.
  
• The plots of “Le Morte d’Arthur” in modern popular culture.
  Article. in The human being: the image and the sense. М., 2000.  P. 26-41.
  
• “Le Morte d’Arthur” by T. Malory and Modern cinema. Transformation of Merlin in popular culture. 
  Article. in Culturology. XX century. М., 1999.  №3.  P. 196-211.