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Arturas Tereskinas Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University Department of Social Sciences-311 Donelaicio 52, Kaunas 3000, Lithuania
Phone: (822) 77-00-50, Mobile: (8-285) 81162
Associate Professor Department of Social Sciences Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University
Ph. D., Harvard University, Department of History, March 2000. Fields of Specialization: Nationalism and Ethnicity, Eastern Europe and Russia, Mass Media and Mass Culture, Sexuality and Identity A. M., Harvard University, Department of History, 1995 Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, 1991-1993 B. A., Philology, Vilnius University, Lithuania, 1990
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in Eastern European Studies for Dissertation Research, 1997 FLAS Award for Dissertation Research, 1996-1997 Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, summer travel grant for study in Lithuania, 1996 Lithuanian World Community Foundation Bronius Vaskelis Scholarship, 1995 Harvard University scholarship and stipend, 1993-1995 Russian Research Center, Harvard University, summer travel grant for study in Poland, 1994 Graduate Student Council, Harvard University, summer travel grant, 1994 The Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, award for summer research. Chicago, IL, 1992 The Lithuanian Foundation scholarship. Chicago, IL. 1991-1994 & 1999 The Vydunas Foundation scholarship. Chicago, IL, 1991-1992 Lithuanian Writers' Society grant for book reviews published in Pergale, a monthly journal of literature, criticism, and essays (a publication of the Society). Vilnius, Lithuania, 1990. Teaching and Research Experience "Sociology of Postmodernism." Upper level course taught at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. Spring 2000. "Pierre Bourdieu: Disciplinary Encounters." Upper level course taught at Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. Spring 2000. "An Introduction to the Contemporary World." Designed and taught this one-semester course at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Spring 1998. Focus on ethnicity, nationalism, post-communism and post-colonialism "The World Since 1914." Designed and taught this one-semester course at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Spring 1998 Graduate Student Fellow. Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University. 1998-1999 Research Assistant. Professor Adam Ulam, Harvard University. Fall 1998 "History of Russia and the Former Soviet Union." Designed and taught this one-semester course at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Fall 1996. Focus on communism, nationalism and ethnic identity Freelance translator from Russian and Lithuanian for Linguistic Systems, Inc., Boston, MA. 1997 Research Assistant. Professor Violeta Kelertas, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages, University of Illinois, Chicago. 1992-1993 Research Associate, Department of History of Literature at the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, the Academy of Sciences of Lithuania; research on eighteenth-century Europe. 1989-1991. University and Other Committees Member, Selection Committee of the Best Lithuanian National TV News and Information Programs (Ad Rem), May 2000 Chair, "Body, Sexuality and Identity," Doctoral Student Giedre Smitiene Exam Committee, Dept. of Lithuanian Literature, Vilnius University, 2000 Member, Selection Committee for Best Reviews of Lithuanian Web Sites, Open Society Fund of Lithuania, Lithuania, 2000. Professional Presentations "Cultural Symptoms: Notes on Identity and Politics in Contemporary Lithuania." Guest Lecturer at Kaunas Technological University, Kaunas, Lithuania, April 2000 "Virtual Communities: Living in a Virtual Space." Paper presented at the Open Society Fund of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 7 2000 "Youth and the Job Market in Lithuania." Discussant at the Conference "Youth and Professional Success: Aspirations and Possibilities." Kaunas, Lithuania, May 2000 "To the Nation's Bottom: A Theory of Contemporary Lithuanian National Identities and Identifications." Paper presented at the Conference "The New Europe at the Crossroads," St. John's University, York, England, August 1997 "Threatening Bodies/Bodiless Nation: The Erotics of National Disembodiment in Post-Communist Eastern Europe." Paper presented at the Conference "Social Process Without Actors? Conspiracy Theories and the Quest for Enemies in Central and Eastern Europe," Klaipeda, Lithuania, February 1997 "Contemporary Lithuanian National Identifications." Guest Lecturer at Baltic Studies Summer Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL. July 1996 "The Gendering of the Lithuanian Nation in Maironis's Poetry (1862-1932)." Paper presented at the Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Biannual Conference, Waltham, MA. June 1996
Selected Publications 1. "Between Soup and Soap: Iconic Nationality, Mass Media and Pop Culture in Contemporary Lithuania," www.artium.lt. (Electronic journal of culture and history supported by Soros Foundation of Open Lithuania), no. 1 (1999). Reprinted in Sociologija/Sociology, no. 3 (Winter 1999): 16-32. 2. "The Gendering of the Lithuanian Nation in Maironis's (1862-1932) Poetry," Lituanus, Lithuanian quarterly of arts and sciences, 45:2 (Summer 1999): 54-73. 3. "Tautos dugnan: masine kultura, kasdienybes logika, tautiskumo teorija" (To the Nation's Bottom: A Theory of Contemporary Lithuanian National Identities and Identifications). Kulturos barai, 10 (1998): 2-10. 4. "Reconsidering the Third of May Constitution and the Rhetoric of Polish-Lithuanian Reforms, 1788-1792," Journal of Baltic Studies, vol. 27, 4 (Winter 1996): 291-308. 5. "Between Romantic Nostalgia and Historio-Pedagogic Sentiments: A Few Ways to Discourse the Lithuanian Past," Lituanus, 43:3 (1997): 11-48. 6. "Vytautas Kavolis nuostabos ir saskambiu sociologijoje." (Vytautas Kavolis in the Sociology of Wonder and Resonance: An Afterword for Vytautas Kavolis's book Cultural Psychology). Vilnius: Open Lithuania Foundation, 1995, 185-207. 7. "Tautos kunas ir kuno tauta: keletas falologizmu apie Maironio poezija" (The Body of the Nation, the Nation of the Body: Some Reflections on Maironis's Poetry). Metmenys, 69 (1995): 9-25. 8. "Gedejimo teologija Alfonso Nykos-Niliuno poezijoje." (The Theology of Mourning in Alfonsas Nyka-Niliunas's Poetry). Metmenys, Lithuanian journal of arts and analysis, published in Chicago, 65 (1993): 36-68. 9. "Karaliaus veidrodis, arba XVIII a. Lenkijos-Lietuvos sociopolitine choreografija." (The King's Mirror, or the Sociopolitical Choreography of Eighteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania). Metmenys 64 (1993): 8-22. 10. "Autobiographies in 18th-Century Poland-Lithuania." Lituanus 39, no. 4 (1993): 32-48. 11. "Stiliaus ir zanro problemos M. Alsausko ir K. Lukausko pamoksluose" (Problems of Style and Genre in the Sermons of M. Alsauskas and K. Lukauskas, a study on eighteenth-century Catholic sermons written in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania), in Genres of Old Lithuanian Literature, ed. Rasa Jurgelenaite. Vilnius: Mokslo ir Enciklopediju Leidykla, 1992, 104-163. 12. "Intelektualine autobiografija, arba pinkles diletantui" (Intellectual Autobiography or the Dilettante's Trap: A Review of the Books of Vytautas Kavolis), Metmenys 62 (1992): 183-191. 13. "Patirties retorika ir vaizdiniu teologija" (The Rhetoric of Experience and the Theology of Images: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious and Political Writings in Lithuania), Metmenys 62 (1992): 3-23. 14. Eighteenth-Century Lithuanian and Polish sermons transcribed, edited, and published in Naujasis Zidinys, Monthly Journal of the History of Culture and Arts, 4 (1991): 30-33 &9 (1991): 43-48. 15. "Wiosna poezji i poezja Litewska" (Poetic Spring and Lithuanian Poetry) Przeglad Powszechny (Warsaw, Poland), 2, no. 834 (1991): 336-339. Computer Skills Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, PageMaker. Working knowledge of both Macintosh and IBM compatible operating systems. Foreign Languages English, Russian, Polish, French, German. |
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