Education
2010
Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Faculty of Arts: Habilitation, Venia legendi for Slavonic Studies (Slavische Philologie)
Title of the thesis: “Das Tajmyr-Pidgin-Russische im Kontext der Landnahme Sibiriens” [Taimyr Pidgin Russian in the context of the colonization of Siberia]
Public lecture held on July 7: “Zur Ätiologie und Genese des Balkansprachbunds” [The Aetiology and Genesis of the Balkan Linguistic Area]
1998
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Faculty of Arts: Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.)
Dissertation title: “Die Liederhandschrift F 19-233 (15) der Bibliothek der Litauischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: eine kommentierte Edition” [The song collection F 19-233 (15) of the library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences]
1994
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Faculty of Arts: Magister artium (M.A.)
Academic Positions and Research Experience
2010- Universiteit Gent, Department of Slavic and East European Studies, Chair of Slavic Philology: Professor
2007-2010 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universtität, Department of communication sciences, Chair of Slavic Linguistics: Senior Lecturer
2003-2007 Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Slavic Department, Chair of Slavic Philology: Lecturer
1999-2003 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Centre for Patristic studies: Research Assistant
Research Project: Compilation of index to hymns contained in Russian Church Slavonic manuscript menaia, 11th - 13th cent.
1997-1999 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Centre for Patristic studies: Research Assistant
Collaboration on various editorial projects: Edition of Russian Church Slavonic menaia; Edition of the Russian Church Slavonic Contacarium.
1995 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Slavic department, Chair of Slavic literatures: Research Assistant
Edition of Nikola Gučetić’ "Ars rhetorica", a Latin handbook on rhetoric from Dalmatia.
Grants
2012-14 Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Vlaanderen, Travel Exchange Funds
together with Anissava Miltenova. Project type: international collaboration (between the University of Ghent and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Topic: The Ghent Slavic codex ms. 408 (Bdinski Sbornik), a 14th century hagiographic miscellany
2009 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Travel Grant
Field project: Chinese-Russian interethnic communication in the context of cross border trade and labor migration.
2005 Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, Travel Grant
Field project: Documentation of Taimyr Pidgin Russian at Dudinka and Voločanka, Krasnoyarskii kr., Russian Federation.
2004 Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung, Conference Grant
Conference Title: Language death and language genesis on the peripheries of the Slavic speaking world. Time and location: Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 24-26 Feb. 2005.
2000 Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen (Cologne), Travel Grant
Field project: Documentation of Taimyr Pidgin Russian at Dudinka and Voločanka, Krasnoyarskii kr., Russian Federation.
1995-1997 Graduiertenförderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Funded doctoral studentship.
Memberships
Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, Classe di Slavistica
Association for Linguistic Typology
Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V., Cologne
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, Munich
Deutscher Slavistenverband
Belgische Slavistenvereniging
Field Research
Fieldwork
Čita, Zabajkal’sk (Čitinskaja oblast’, RF) and Manzhouli (Province of Inner Mongolia, China) July-August 2009
Linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork on Russian-Chinese open-air markets as well as among Chinese migrant laborers in Russia, in assosiation with Kapitolina Fedorova (European University at St. Petersburg)
Dudinka and Voločanka, Taimyrskii avtonomny okrug, RF August-September 2005
Field trip to Dudinka and Voločanka with a double objective: 1. Countercheck of transcripts of the field recordings made in 2000; 2. Inspection of local archives at Dudinka and Noril’sk for sources on the history of the colonization of the Taimyr peninsula by the Russians.
Khabarovsk, Russian Far East, RF June-July 2002
Survey of linguistic situation on Chinese open-air markets in towns on the Chinese-Russian border.
Dudinka and Voločanka, Taimyrskii avtonomny okrug, RF June-July 2000
Documentation of Taimyr Pidgin Russian ("Govorka")
Archival studies
Sofia, Bulgaria 2012, 2013, 2014
Investigation of manuscripts at the Bulgarian National Library and the Ivan Dujčev Research Center.
Vilnius, Lithuania November 1995
Investigation of printed and manuscript song collections at the Kapsukas University Library and the Central Library of the Academy of Sciences.
Workshops
Leipzig 18-19 February 2006
“Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures”, First Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Conference Presentations
From Bogoglasnik to Katavasia: the Spread of Ruthenian Devotional Songs in Privately Owned Manuscripts among the Southern Slavs
SESdiva conference, University of Sofia, 21-22 November 2019
Структурные последствия народнолингвистических теорий и практик в языковом конткате
First Meeting of the Commission on Slavic Language Contacts, reporting to the International Committee of Slavic Stidies, Mainz, 8-10 October 2019
Vasil’ Tjapinskis Evangelienübersetzung als Programm einer protestantisch-orthodoxen Synthese?
13. Deutscher Slavistentag 2019, University of Trier, 24-26 September 2019
Ruthenische geistliche Lieder als Sammelobjekte
13th Paleoslavic meeting, University of Saarbrücken, 22-23 March 2019
Ruthenian syllabic religious songs as transnationally disseminated collectors’ items?
Associazione Italiana degli Studi Ucraini, 7th International Conference “Ukraine and Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural and Transnational Interactions”, University of Naples, 14-15 January 2019
Russische Pidgins
Invited guest lecture at the Slavic Department of the University of Zurich, 14 November 2018
Taimyr Pidgin Russian and Native Russian: How Close are they?
16th International Slavic Congress Belgrade 2018, Panel on Intercomprehensibility, 23 August 2018
Internal Threats to Minor Disciplines
Workshop Subjects under Threat in Europe: Ancient Languages and Cultures at Ghent University, University of Ghent Gent, 17 April 2018
Subjektkontinuität und referenzielle Konflikte im Kirchenslavischen
12th Paleoslavic meeting, Insitute of Slavic studies, University of Vienna, 29-30 September 2017
“La Traduzione di Vasil’ Tjapinski dei Vangeli come programma di una sintesi protestante-ortodossa?”
Accademia Ambrosiana, Classe di Slavistica, Dies Academicus 2017 “Riforma nei Paesi slavi”, 29-30 May 2017.
“Pragmaphilologie, Birkenrindeninschriften und noch eine weitere Reinterpretation von NG 19”
11th Palaeoslavist Meeting, University of Saarbrücken, 12-13 March 2016
“Informal cross-border economies in the post-Soviet space as a field of linguistic investigation”
Hokudai Day, University of Ghent, 29 February 2016
“Onevenwichtige competitie: de analogische verspreiding van RUKI-x”
LIIIste Dag van de Belgische Slavisten, 20 February 2016
“Teaching Russians How to Bargain. The Wenming Interpretation of Neoliberal Governmentality on the Russian-Chinese Border”
Panel “On the fringes of the Slavic World: Language, Rhetoric and Cross-Border Practices in Daily Market Exchange”, ASEEES Convention, Philadelphia, 19-22 November 2015
“Hagiographie und Übergangsriten: der Bdinski Sbornik als geistliche Mitgift? [Your own personal saint — Zur Personalisierung der Hagiographie im Bdinski Sbornik]”
12. Deutscher Slavistentag, Gießen, October 2015
“Translations as Text redactions. Observations on Slavonic translations of hagiographic texts (from the Bdinski Sbornik)”
Accademia Ambrosiana, Classe di Slavistica, Dies Academicus 2015 “Tradizioni e rapporti interculturali degli Slavi con il mondo circostante”, Milan, 26 May 2015
“The privacy of having a language of one’s own: Slavic regional standard projects and minority agendas online”
Symposion on Slavic Minorities and their (Literary) Languages in the European Context and beyond: the Current Situation and Critical Challenges, Tokyo, 30 January – 1 February 2015
“Структурные последствия народнолингвистических теорий и практик в языковом конткате”
IX Супруновские чтения «Языковой контакт», Minsk, 26.-27. September, 2014
“What shall we do with the Bdinski Sbornik? — Ein Lagebericht mit ersten Ergebnissen”
10th Meeting of Palaeslavistis, Ghent, 23-24 May 2014
“Copying Greek into Slavonic? — The Slavonic branch of the Greek tradition of the Life of Abraham of Qidun”
Approaches To The Editing of texts with a Multilingual Tradition (ATTEMT), 19 December 2013, University College, London
“Традиция и традиционализм: Духовные канты в отношении к славяно-византийской гимнографии”
XVth International Congress of Slavic Studies, Minsk, 23 August 2013
“Deviations from literalism: Remarks on the Slavic translation of the Greek Life of Abraham of Qidun”
Conference ‘Studying the Stanislav Reading Monologion’, Kliment-Ohridski-University, Sofia, 21 May 2013
“East European regionalism, Slavic microliterary languages and the internet”
BASEES/ICCEES European Congress 2013: ‘Europe: Crisis and Renewal’, Cambridge, 5-8 April 2013
“Nado minimum! – mediating respectability at informal markets on the Russian-Chinese border”
Relocating Borders: a comparative approach — EastBordNet-Conference 2013, HU Berlin, 13 January 2013
“Die Vita des Abraham von Qidun – eine Revision der slavischen Zeugnisse und ihrer griechischen Quellen”
9th Meeting of Palaeoslavists, Freiburg i.Br., 19 October 2012
“Слово об Авраамии Кидунского и его племяннице Марии: В поисках источников Бдинского Сборника”
International Conference ‘Светци и свети места на Балканите’, Kliment-Ohridski-Univrsity, Sofia, 15 June 2012
“Russland als Vielsprachenreich”
Invited lecture, Instituts für Slawistik, Humboldt University Berlin, 17 January 2012
“Preliminary Thoughts on Preparing a Digital Edition of the Bdinski” Sbornik (with Lara Sels)
Conference within the framework of the UNESCO-Project ‘The Tenth-Century Cyrillic Manuscript Codex Suprasliensis: the creation of an electronic corpus’, Българска Академия на науките, Институт за литература, Sofia, 20 August 2011
“Disruptive Sprachkontakte des Russischen: Pidgins und Pidginisierung im Fokus”
Invited Lecture, Slavic Department, University of Bonn, 29 June 2011
“Negotiating Goods and Languages on Cross-border Retail Markets in the Postsocialist Space”
Invited Lecture, Hokudai Slavic Research Center, Sapporo, 10 March 2011
“An Outsider Among (Russian) Pidgins: Taimyr Pidgin Russian”
Invited Lecture, University of Tokyo, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, 8 March 2011
“Social functions of Speaking Pidgin: The case of Russian Pidgins.”
SEELECTS, Universiteit Gent, 21 October 2010
“Die ostslavischen geistlichen Lieder in ihrem Verhältnis zur byzantinisch-slavischen Hymnographie”
Paper presented at the 8th Convention of Palaeoslavists, Berlin, 18 - 19 February 2010
“Informelle Märkte im postsozialistischen Raum als Gegenstand linguistischer Feldforschung”
Paper presented at the X. Deutscher Slavistentag, Tübingen, 3. October 2009
“Multilinguale Imperien: Die Sprachenfrage in der frühen Sowjetunion”
Paper presented at the Slavic Department of the University at Vienna, 11 May 2009
“Fokus Pidgin-Russisch”
Paper presented at the Slavic Department, Tübingen, 10 December 2007
“Europa in Asien – die linguistische Seite der russischen frontier-Bildung in Sibirien”
Paper presented at the Eurolinguistic Conference, Leipzig, 30 September - 2 October 2007
“Die Vita des hl. Erasmus von Formia in den Großen Lesemenäen des Metropoliten Makarij”
Paper presented at the 7th Convention of Palaeoslavists, Münster, 29 April 2007
“Erasmus von Formia: ein italogriechischer Heiliger bei den Slaven”
Paper presented at the weekly meeting of the Slavic Department, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 13 November 2006
“What kind of pidgin is Taimyr Pidgin Russian?”
Paper presented at the First Interdisciplinary Slavic Conference “Slavic studies after the last EU-Enlargement”, Thessaloniki, 29 September - 1 October 2006
“Taimyr Pidgin Russian”
Paper presented at the VII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Berlin, 25-30 July 2005
“Der Nothelfer Erasmus in der slavischen und byzantinischen Hymnographie”
Paper presented at the international conference “Byzantinische Hymnographie im frühen Schrifttum der Slaven”, Bonn, 7-10 June 2005
“The Social Significance of Speaking Pidgin: The case of Russian Lexifier Pidgins.”
Paper presented at the international conference “Sprachgeburt und Sprachtod an den Rändern der «slavischen Welt»”, Berlin, 24-26 February 2005
“Govorka (Tajmyr Pidgin Russisch)”
Paper presented at the weekly meeting of the Slavic Department, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 22 November 2004
“Kontaktvarietäten des Russischen”
Paper presented at the weekly meeting of the Slavic Department, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 24 November 2003
“Новгородские апрелъские минеи: Чем апрель отличается от осталъных месяцев?”
Paper presented at the BRASLAV symposium, University of Bratislava, 13 November 2003
“Spuren paraliturgischer Praxis in der Rus’”
Paper presented at the 5th Convention of Palaeoslavists, Würzburg, 25 October 2003
“Kolonialsprache Russisch”
Paper presented at the 13th International Congress of Slavic studies, Ljubljana, 15-21 August 2003
“Kolonialsprache Russisch”
Paper presented at the weekly meeting of the Slavic Department, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, 24 April 2003
“Zur Genese russischer Pidgins“
Paper presented at the 28. Slavistisches Arbeitstreffen, Bochum, 9-13 September 2002
“В поисках зачатков Говорки – Таймырского русского пиджина”
Paper presented at the XXIII Dul’zonovskie čtenija, Tomsk, 24-28 June 2002
“Govorka – ein russisch lexifiziertes Pidgin in Nordsibirien”
Paper presented at the Annual Assembly of the Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V., Köln, 8 December 2001
“Die Novgoroder Aprilmenäen des 11.-13. Jhs.: Warum der April anders ist”
Paper presented at the 4th Convention of Palaeoslavists, Münster, 17-19 November 2001
“Ostslavische cantiones und Kantionale: Ursprung und Verbreitung”
Paper presented at the VIII. Deutscher Slavistentag, Potsdam, 1-3 October 2001
“Variation in Mehrfachübersetzungen von Theotokia in altrussischen Gottesdienstmenäen”
Paper presented at the symposium “Die Übersetzung als Problem sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Forschung in Slavistik und Baltistik”, Münster, 10-11 Mai 2001
“The Russian Impact on Govorka (Taimyr Pidgin Russian)”
Paper presented at the workshop “Pidgins: Their nature and significance”, London, 19-21 April 2001
“Russische Pidgins”
Paper presented at the weekly meeting of the Linguistic department, Bonn University, 2 February 2001
“Похвала пустыни Иоасафа — замечания к истории духовной песни у восточных славян”
Paper presented at the conference “Prekladanie Biblie, náboženská tvorba a duchovná pieseň (západného aj východného obradu) z hľadiska európskeho kontekstu”, Martin/Diviaky, Slovac Republic, 27-30 September 2000
“Відносини духовних пісень до літургії у східних слов'ян в XVII-XVIII стст.”
Paper presented at the conference “Slovensko-rusínsko-ukrajinské styky a vzťahy od obrodenia po súčasnosť”, Zemplínska Šírava, Slovac Republic, 5-9 October 1999
“Духовный кант – возможности и границы его генеалогической реконструкции.”
Paper presented at the 4th International Congress of Ukrainian studies, Odessa, 25-30 August 1999
“Das ruthenisch-kirchenslavische Kantional F 19-233 (15) der Litauischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und seine Stellung in der Kationalliteratur Polens und Rußlands im 17.-18. Jh.”
Paper presented at the VII. Deutscher Slavistentag, Bamberg, 19-21 September 1997
