Anna Kotomina

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Education:

Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow
Ph.D. in General History (2009)
Dissertation: “Les Evangilles des Quenouilles”. The mid-French Literary Text: Transition from Manuscript to Incunabula Form and its XV-century Readers.
Moscow State University, History Department
MS in the History of Medieval France (1995)
Minor in theory and history of culture, Philosophy department
Diploma paper: “The Strategies of the Self Representation of Marguerite de Navarre in her Private Letters and in the “Heptameron.””

Postdoctoral Training:

Central European Univercity, Budapest, Hungary (2005-2007)
HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France (2002)
Training course in anthropology and cultural studies

Employment History:

The Central State Museum of the Cinema, Moscow (2009-to date)
Senior researcher at the department of Cinema Posters.
Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow (1995- to date)
Assistant (1995-1997), researcher (1997-2000) in the Center for demographical anthropology (dir. M. le prof. Yuri Bessmertny), (1995-2000); Researcher in the Center for the studies in the History of Private and Everyday Life (dir. Igor Danilevsky), (2000-up to date)

Teaching Experience:

State University for Human Sciences, Moscow (2008- to date) Cultural history of media; Culture of Mass Show; State Cultural Policy and Media; State Cultural Policy in Russia; Contemporary State Cultural Policy; Theory of Media; History of Fashion; History of Russian Theatre; Culture of Television; Cultural Analyses of Printed Media; Cultural Analyses of New Media; History of Book;

Moscow City University for Psychology and Pedagogy (2007-2009) Audio-visual Arts;

Moscow State University, Philosophy department (2006-2008) History of Media;

Treticov Gallary, Moscow (2005) Media. History of the Technologies of Representation.

Selected Publications:

Main cultural and social history of book publications:

The Book and its Readers. The different readings of one mid-French Literary Text // Homo historicus. К 80-letiu so dnia rozhdenaia U.L. Bessmertnogo. М., 2003, v.1.
The Printing House of Collare Mansion in Bruges and the Strategies of Early Printing. // Kniga I mirovaia tsivilizatzia. (Мateriali XI mezhdunarodnoi conferentsii po problemam knigovedenia). М., 2004.
The Images of the Political Elite of the Burundian State in the Miniature from “Chroniques de Hainaut” (XV c). // Novaia politicheskaia istoria. v. 4. Spb ., 2004.
Collare Mansion. The Publisher of XV Century Looking for his Readers. // Srednie veka, 68(4), М. 2008.
“Les Evangilles des Quenouilles”: an Experience in Literal Transcribing of the Superstitions at the Times of Printing Revolution. // Оdissei. Chelovek v istorii – 2008, М. 2008.

History of media publications:

Media. History of the Technologies of Representation. Lecturs. // «Next.tretiakovgallery.ru», CD-ROM, М. 2006
History of Soviet Diafilm. // Diafilm. Home media. СD-ROM, М., 2007.
History of Media. (with N. Selivanov) // Diafilm. Home media. СD-ROM, М., 2007.
The Computer Technique and Animation in the History of Technique Teaching. (with I. Socolovski) // Istoria nauki I tekhniki, v. 3, Novosibirsk, 2008.
The Tree Androids from Neufchatel and Pedagogic Ideas of J-J. Rousseau. // Kulturnie issledovania RGGU. M., 2010.
Lanterna magica in Russia 1870-1915.// Kinovedcheskie zapiski, 85 (in print)

Fellowships:

CNRS Grant (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Research Grant, 2002), € 3000
Workshop Grant (for Tensions of Europe meeting in Rotterdam, 2006), $ 800
Karen Johnson Freeze Fellowships (the Foundation for the History of Technology, 2011) € 2000.

Professional Affiliations:

Association of Russian researches of Medieval European History (IGH, RAS)
Research Network “Tensions of Europe” (European Science Foundation)