Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

  • 1966

Student examination. Töölön yhteislyseo, Helsinki.

  • 1973

Fil.kand. (cand. phil.) Helsinki University

Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature, Finnish Language

  • 1975

Fil.lis. (lic. phil.) Helsinki University

Comparative Literature, Russian Language and Literature

  • 1987

Fil.tri (PhD) Helsinki University

Russian Language and Literature

EMPLOYMENT

  • 1970-72

Teacher in Comparative Literature Helsinki University

  • 1972, 1974, 1975-1979

Assistant in Comparative Literature Helsinki Univer­sity

  • 1979

Acting Associate Professor in Comparative Literature Oulu University

  • 1981-83

Acting Associate Professor in Russian Literature Helsinki University

  • 1983-86

Research Fellow Finnish Academy of Sciences and Humanities

  • 1986-87

Acting Associate Professor in Russian Literature Helsinki University

  • 1988-98

Associate Professor in Russian Literature Helsinki University

  • 1992-1993; 1997-1998

Acting Professor in Russian Language and Literature; Helsinki University

  • 1998

Professor in Russian Literature Helsinki University

INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION (major)

  • The Society of Finnish Literature

-working member 1978-

  • The Finnish Society of Aesthetics

-board  member 1983-85

  • The Finnish Society of Slavists

-board member 1988-2001; chair 1990-98

  • The Finnish Society of Literary Scholars

-vice chair 1988-1990

  • The Finnish-Soviet Scientific-Technological Committee (Suomen ja Neuvostoliiton välinen tietellinen yhteistyökomitea), Working group in Literature and Folklore

-Secretary General 1988-1990

  • The International Institute of Semiotics (ISI)

- board  member 1996-

  • The Finnish Society for Russian and East European Studies

-board  member 1995- 2001

  • The member of St. Petersburg Academy of Humanities 1994-

-member

  • The Aleksanteri Institute – Centre for Russian and East European Studies in Finland

-board  member 1996-98; 2005-

  • The Renvall Institute of Area Studies, University of Helsinki

-board  chair 1995-2001

-board member 1993-

  • Russian Booker-Smirnoff Literary Price

-jury member 1999

  • VI ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) World Congress in Tampere

-International Program Committee member 2000

  • Daugavpils (Latvia) Pedagogical University.

The Philology Study International Assessment Committee member 2000

  • Riga (Latvia) Sate University.

Philological Study International Assessment  Committee  member 2002.

  • Tartu State University & Tallinn Pedagogical University. Literature and Folkloristic

Study International Assessment Committee member 2002.

  • Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (The New Literary Review), Moscow

-Editorial Board Member 2005-

  • European University at St Petersburg. Faculty of Ethnology

-International Advisory Board Member 2006-

  • The Eino Leino Literary Price. Finland

-jury member 2006

  • Building a European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH)

-Standing Committee for Literature member 2006-2008

  • 9th World Congress of International Association of Semiotics. Helsinki-Imatra

-International Program Committee Member 2007

  • European Science Foundation

-Pool reviewer 2009-10

MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

1) International Project “Modernism and Postmodernism in Russian Literature and Culture” (Supported by The Academy of Finland, Helsinki University, Centre for International Mobility & others) 1995-1999 (2000-)

-responsible project leader

2) The Nordic Doctoral School of Russian Literature (supported by Nordiska Forskarutdaningsakademin)

-the leading group member 1997-1999

3) The Finnish Doctoral School of Literature (Valtakunnallinen Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen tutkijakoulu; supported by The Academy of Finland)

-the leading group member 1998-

4) International Project “Understanding, Misunderstanding, Self-understanding” (Supported by ESR) within the International Semiotics Institute

-member 1998-1999/2003

5) International Project “Narration and History: Turn of the Century in Russian Culture” (Supported by The Academy of Finland) 2002-2005

-responsible project leader

6) Finnish Network University of Semiotics

-board member 2003-

7) International Project “St. Petersburg / Leningrad: History – Narration – Present” (Supported by The Academy of Finland) 2004-2007

-responsible project leader

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Several Grants for studies in

-Soviet Union/Russia 1969-

-Czechoslovakia 1970

-Germany 1998

-from Helsinki University; Finnish Academy, Ministry of Education, Finnish- Soviet Scientific & Technological Committee, The Institute for Russian and  Eastern European studies, The Friendship Society Finland-Soviet Union/Russia

Eemil Aaltonen Foundation 1974

Alfred Kordelin Foundation 1978

The Academy of Finland: Senior Research Fellow 1992-1993 and 2002-2003

Jakov Grot award of Helsinki University for enthusiasm in Russian Studies 1999

Oscar Parland award of Finnish Semiotic Society for the work done in the field of study and teaching in Russian Semiotics 2007

CONFERENCES

Papers in International Seminars and Conferences

-1975- (ca. 100) in Russia, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, England, Scotland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Italy, USA, Mexico

Papers in Finnish Seminars and Conferences

-1971- (ca. 130)

Organized Seminars and Conferences

International (16) 1982-

Especially to be mentioned The Tartu-Helsinki international seminars on Russian Literature and Culture (I-XII, 1987-2009)

Finnish (ca. 40) 1974-

SUPERVISED ACADEMIC WORKS

Supervised doctoral dissertations completed (30) 1991-2009

-21 (1st supervisor); 9 (2nd supervisor)

-Authors: Finns (18), Russians (11), Estonian (1), American; USA (1), Israelian (1)

Supervised doctoral dissertations to be completed (11)

-9 (1st supervisor); 2 (2nd supervisor)

-Authors: Finns (8), Russians (3)

Supervised licentiate dissertations (theses) completed (11) 1988-2009

-Authors: Finns (8), Russian (2), American (USA) (1)

Supervised MA (FM)-theses completed (185) (1979-2009)

-in Comparative and Finnish Literature, Art History, History 15 (1979-2009)

-in Russian Literature and Culture  170 (1982-2009)

PERSONAL

Born: April, 1, 1947. Norrköping. Sweden

Married, 2 daughters, 1 grand-daughter

Languages: Finnish (mother tongue), Russian, Swedish,  English, German