Katia E. Clod-Svensson 804/828-5738 (work); 804/755-6882 (home) |
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| Editor | Virginia Commonwealth University | 1998-current |
| Tour Guide | Agecroft Hall Museum Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Edgar Allan Poe Museum |
1996-2001 1996 1995-1996 |
| Research Assistant | Bowling Green State University | 1994-1995 |
| Teaching Assistant | Bowling Green State University | 1992-1993 |
| Recent Russian Popular Culture. An independently developed new course. Introduction to Popular Culture. |
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| Interpreter | Soviet Cultural Foundation | 1990-1991 |
| Senior Consultant and ESL Instructor |
Center for Intensive Language Teaching | 1990-1991 |
EDUCATION
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
— Ph.D. candidate (a.b.d. status, 1998), American Culture Studies.
— M.A., Popular Culture, 1993.
St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia.
— B.Sc., M.Sc., Geography and Geoecology, May 1989
AWARDS and HONORS
1993 – Stipend from the Soros Foundation
1996 – Achievements noted in the Edgar Allan Poe Museum Newsletter
OTHER
Board of Trustees member: Asian American Society of Central Virginia.
Language Skills: Outstanding bilingual (Russian/English) communication skills. Intermediate French, German and Swedish.
Arts: Completed a five-year program in the Arts History at the State Hermitage. Directed and acted in a number of plays. Participated in organization of the first two first International Festivals of Non-Acted Film, St. Petersburg.
Other Experience: PC computer skills (a number of word processing programs for IBM and Macintosh, PowerPoint, Endnote, Picture Publisher).
A number of conference presentations including The Lily Face That Lies:16th Century Victims of Innocence - and Artifice, Princeton University, 1997. and Teaching about the Soviet Successor States, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, 1994.
Interests and Studies: Linguistics, history; international educational and cultural exchange, social and cultural aspects of geography; ethnology, film and other visual arts; travel. Extensively traveled in the US, Europe, and Middle Asia.
Personal: Married, 2 children.