St. Petersburg State University
Faculty of Philologyг
11 Universitetskaya Emb.
199034 St. Petersburg
Тел.: 007 (812) 3240892

Tikhoretsky Prospekt 18–21
194064 St. Petersburg
Telephone 007 812 556 7201
e-mail kazar@list.ru

2013 – 2014

Ghent University (Belgium), Visiting Associate Professor

2012 – 2013

Dartmouth College (USA), Visiting Associate Professor

Sinds the End of 2012

Habilitation Position at Vinogradov Institut of Russian in the Russian Academy of Science

2010 – present

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, Instituteof Russian, Associate Professor

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Department of Informatics, Associate Professor

t2009 – 2010

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, Instituteof Philological Studies, Department of the History andTheory of Literature, Senior Scientific Researcher

2004 – 2009

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of the History of Foreign Literatures, AssistantProfessor

2003 – 2010

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Laboratory of Intellectual Systems, Senior Scientific Researcher

2001 – 2003

St. Petersburg State University, Smirnov Scientific Research Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Laboratory of Intellectual Systems (Laboratory of Mathematical Linguistics), Scientific Researcher

1998 – 1999

Bremen University, Institute of East European Studies, Lecturer

Humboldt University (Berlin), Bremen University, University of Graz, Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt, Leiden University, University of Amsterdam, Ghent University.

2004 – 2006

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of the History of West European Literatures (History of Foreign Literatures); Leiden University, Department of Dutch language and literature, Postdoctoral study

December 2001

Defended PhD-thesis, awarded the degree of Candidate (Doctor) of Philological Sciences

1995 – 2001

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of General Linguistics; University Bremen, Department of Language and Literature, graduate study

June 1995

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology, Department of General Linguistics, defended senior thesis titled “Chance Occurrences of Iambs in the Prose of Poets”, summa cum laude

1990 – 1995

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philology Department of Russian language and literature. Studied Russian, German, English and Ukrainian. Studied ancient languages: Old Slavic, Latin and Ancient Greek. Researched Russian and European literature.

1988 – 1990

Humanities Lycée

Language theory; comparative literature; German, Dutch and Slavic languages and literatures; versification (prosody, history of European verse)

Russian (native), German (fluent), Dutch (fluent), English (good), Ukrainian (good), Polish (passive), Swedish (passiv), Latin (2 years university), Ancient Greek (2 years university), Old Slavic (2 years university).

St. Petersburg State University:

History of European verse

Verse prosody

Russian and West European versification

Dutch dialectology

Russian stylistics

Russian phonetics

Practical Russian

Bremen University:

Introduction to Russian Phonetics and PhonologyPractical Russian

Visiting teacher experience:

History of modern European

verse Evolution of Dutch and German iambic

verseThe 18th-century reform of Russian

verse Models of Russian culture

2000 – 2001

Anna Borisova, St. Petersburg State University, Comparative Literature, senior thesis: Evolution of modern Greek syllabo-tonic verse in the context of Italian syllabic poetry

2002 – 2003

Katharine Bauer, St. Petersburg State University, Bremen University, Comparative Literature, Research Practicum Prosody of Russian and German verse

2010 – 2011

Andrew Davis, St. Petersburg State University, Princeton University, Comparative Literature, Fulbright Fellow The iambic pentameter of Joseph Brodsky and English verse

Organization:

1998

Secretary of the Program Committee for the International Congress “Slavic Verse: Linguistics and Applied Poetics” Organized by St. Petersburg State University and The Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language (Russian Academy of Sciences)

2002 – 2006; 2008 – 2009

Secretary of the ongoing seminar “Linguistic Poetics and the Study of Verse” Organized by St. Petersburg State University, The St. Petersburg Linguistic Association, and The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House)

Participation:

In 21 international conferences since 1994

1995

Research grant from the government of St. Petersburg

1996 – 1998

DAAD-Fellowship for Bremen University

2003 – 2005

Research grant from the Russian Ministry of Science and Education

2006 – 2007

A. von Humboldt Fellowship for Berlin Free University

2007 – 2008

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Fellowship

St. Petersburg Linguistic Association

Alexander von Humboldt Association

Association of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Science

2001

Formal Methods in Linguistic Poetics 1 (co-editor B. Scherr))

2002

Formal Methods in Linguistic Poetics 2 (co-editor B. Scherr)

2011

Formal Methods in Linguistic Poetics 3 (co-editors: G. Altmann, J. Bailey and B. Scherr)

62 publications

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