Academic Lectures

(invited speaker)

• Poetry Reading and lecture on Salome : The Image of a Woman Who Never Was, Institut Pierre et Marie Curie, Babel Tower club, Paris, January 2020

• Lecture on Zinaida Vengerova and her connection to Symbolism, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, December 2019

• ECCE lecture on Salome: Image of a Woman Who Never Was, UIS, Fall 2019

• Michail Vrubel and Symbolism, Sabbatical presentation, University of Illinois, March 2017

• Michail Vrubel In the Context of Western European Symbolism, University of Paris-Sorbonne, June 2016

• Zinaida Vengerova’s Views of Leo Tolstoy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 2016

• Salome in Art (11 lectures), University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (Comparative Literature department), 2015

• Salome in Russian Culture, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne (Russian and East European studies), 2016

• Salome and John the Baptist, University of Illinois, Brown Bag, Fall 2014

• Salome in Art and Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Russian and East European Center, October 2013

• The Image of Salome in European culture, lecture at the Philosophical Seminar at the Institute des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, June 2013

• Vladimir Soloviev and Literary Salons, lecture at the Philosophical Seminar at the Institute des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France, April 2007