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Education
| 2015 | Ph.D. in linguistics, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris. Title: “A grammar of Mano (Southern Mande) from a typological perspective”. Supervised by Valentin Vydrin.
Grade: très honorable avec félicitations à l’unanimité (summa cum laude) |
| 2011 | M.A. in sociology
French University College, Moscow, Russia |
| 2010 | M.A. in linguistics
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia |
Qualification
| 2016 | Qualification by the French National Council of the Universities as possessing the necessary qualities to teach at the level of Assistant Professor (maître de conférences) in
Section 7. Language sciences: general linguistics and phonetics Section 15. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew languages and literatures and other linguistic domains |
Current position
| April 2021 – March 2024 | Core Fellow
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies |
Previous work experience
| Sep. 2017 – June 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow
Helsinki University Humanities Programme |
| Oct. 2018 – Dec. 2018 | Visiting scholar
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales |
| April 2017 – July 2018 | Visiting scholar
LLACAN, CNRS |
| Jan. 2017 – Aug. 2017 | Visiting scholar
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology |
| Jan. 2015 – Jan. 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology Faculty sponsor: William F. Hanks |
| March 2011 – Feb. 2014 | Graduate Student Researcher
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris |
Career breaks
| June 2020 – March 2021
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Parental leave (minimal parental leave in Finland is 10 months) |
Personal research funding and Grants
| Sep. 2020 – Aug. 2023 | Principal Investigator
Kone Foundation, Finland “Consequences of contact: the social settings of bilingualism” Hosting institution: University of Helsinki |
| Jan 2020 – Dec 2022 | Principal Investigator
Academy of Finland, Finland “Bilingualism at home and in church: a holistic study of language contact in social settings” Hosting institution: University of Helsinki |
| Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2020 | Principal Investigator
Academy of Finland, Finland “Towards a differential model of language contact: cross-linguistic perspectives on the role of religious register in language change” Hosting institution: University of Helsinki |
| April 2017 – June 2018 | Principal Investigator
Fondation Fyssen, France “Cognitive and linguistic consequences of translation. Comparative approaches” Hosting institution: LLACAN, CNRS |
| Jan. 2015 – Jan. 2017 | Postdoctoral Fellowship
Fondation Fyssen, France |
| March 2011 – Feb. 2014 | Doctoral Scholarship
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France |
Teaching Experience
| 2020 | Lecturer
Introduction to African linguistics. Co-instructor: Thera Crane University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 2019 | Lecturer
Sociolinguistics. Co-instructor: Kaius Sinnemäki University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 2019 | Lecturer
Linguistic Anthropology University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 2018 | Lecturer
Anthropology of speech acts: performativity, affect and politics Main instructor. Co-instructors: Michel de Fornel, Paul Codjia EHESS, France |
| 2018 | Lecturer
Linguistic Anthropology. Co-instructor: Stef Spronck University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 2015 | Mentor
Special topic: Translation Theory, UC Berkeley, USA. Main instructor: professor William F. Hanks |
Experience of organizing scientific meetings
| August 2019 | Panel “Anthropological failures” at “On Time: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society 2019”, Helsinki, Finland
Organizer (with Francisco Martinez) |
| May 2018 | Conference “Language contact and translation in religious context.
Comparative approaches”, Inalco, France, 18 participants Organizer |
| April 2018 | Workshop “Christianity, language contact, language change”, Inalco, France, 5 participants
Organizer |
| October 2017 | Workshop “Discontinuitie(s), transmutation(s)”, Inalco, France, 8 participants
Organizer |
| Sep. 2017 | Workshop “Conversion, traduction, interprétation”, Inalco, France, 5 participants
Organizer |
| March 2016 | 47th meeting of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 140 participants
Member of the organizing committee |
Most important invited presentations
| 2019 | Doing things with grammar: indexical performativity across grammatical categories. University of Münster, December 2, Münster, Germany. |
| 2018 | Religion in language variation and change. Grammar of religion. December 12, Helsinki, Finland. |
| 2018 | Knowing is belonging: recognitional deixis and emergence of common ground in religious conversion. Politics of participation. Helsinki, Finland, October 2018. |
| 2017 | Traduire les actes de foi : quand l’intertextualité remédie à l’intraduisible. EHESS, Paris, France. May 2017. |
| 2017 | Le langage religieux des convertis catholiques Manos. Naviguer entre les mots, comprendre la logique. Équipe Anthropologie linguistique, Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris, France. May 2017. |
| 2017 | Discourse genre in anthropology, historical linguistics, typology, and language documentation. Talk at the graduate seminar Historical Linguistics and Languages in Contact at UT San Antonio (invited by Professor Bridget Drinka). April 2017. |
| 2017 | The power of many: translation into intertextual series. Translation, Multimodal Interaction and Context. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives, October 11-14, Paris, France. |
| 2017 | Indexicality in oral Bible translations: deictic categories between grammar and style. Translating Worlds workshop. University of California, Berkeley, January 2017, Berkeley, CA. |
| 2016 | Beyond spatial referencing: recognitional deixis. Universals and Variation in Spatial Referencing Across Languages and Cultures. Santa Barbara, December 8, 2016. |
| 2015 | Missionary Bible translation and linguistic practice (the case of Mano, Guinea). Translating Worlds workshop. University of California, Berkeley, January 14-16, 2015, Berkeley, CA. |
Service to the academic community
Reviewer for: Studies in African Linguistics, Mandenkan, Folia Linguistica, Studies in Language, Pragmatics, Language Science Press
Linguistic skills
Russian native
English, French advanced proficiency, experience in scientific writing and teaching
Mano fieldwork experience
Spanish intermediate proficiency
Finnish beginner