Valeriia Mutc
Dissertation:
“The Dramatic Turn: Science, Theater, and Russian Realism.”
Education:
Ph.D. (expected 2023), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
M.Phil. (2019), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University. Minor field: Theater and Performance Studies.
M.St. (2015), Modern Languages, University of Oxford
Specialist Degree (2014), Russian Language and Literature, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Specialist Degree (2014), Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Research Interests:
- Russian literature and culture of the long 19th century
- Russian drama
- theater history and performance studies
- history of science and technology, science fiction
- medical humanities
- theories and histories of pedagogy
Publications:
“Absence on Stage in Ivan Vyrypaev’s July.” In New Drama in Russian: Performance, Politics and Protest in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, edited by J.A.E. Curtis, 109-17. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Academic Positions:
2023 (Spring), Instructor of Record, “Science and Literature in Russia,” Yale University
2019–2023, Teaching Fellow, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University
2022 (Fall), Teaching Fellow, “Tolstoy’s War and Peace,” Yale University
2019–2021, Research Assistant, Dr. Edyta Bojanowska, Yale University
2021 (Spring), Teaching Fellow, “Russian for Heritage Learners II” (online), Yale University
2020 (Fall), Teaching Fellow, “Russian for Heritage Learners II” (online), Yale University
2020 (Spring), Teaching Fellow, “Tolstoy’s War and Peace” (WR), Yale University
2019 (Fall), Teaching Fellow, “Tolstoy and Dostoevsky,” Yale University
2019 (Spring), Teaching Fellow, Intensive Intermediate Russian (second-year Russian), Yale University
2018 (Fall), Teaching Fellow, Intensive Elementary Russian (first-year Russian), Yale University
2015 (Spring), Fellow, Oxford University Language Centre
2013 (Spring-Fall) Teaching Fellow, “First-Year Russian,” Moscow State University
Areas of Pedagogical Expertise:
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Universal Design for Learning
- Technology in the Classroom
- Teaching and Performance
Teaching Achievements:
2022, Associates in Teaching Award, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
Developed an original course “Science and Literature in Russia,” to be delivered as an Instructor of Record in Spring 2023
2020, Teaching Innovation Project Grant, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University
Developed an online platform for teaching drama and theater virtually
2020, Teaching at Yale Day, Yale University
Co-organized and coordinated a training in contemporary approaches to pedagogy, held online for the first time and attended by 400+ faculty and teaching fellows simultaneously
2021, Student Awards from RUSS 142: Russian for Heritage Learners
National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest, ACTR
First and Third place (B1), 3 honorable mentions (C1)
Digital Humanities:
2021, “From Playscript to Performance,” Yale University
Invited Talks:
“Nikolai Shelonsky’s In the Future World.” “The Other 19v” Seminar. October 21, 2022.
“Scientific Horizons of Russian literature,” SAMSON seminar, Sorbonne University. December 17, 2021.
Conference Organizer:
“Science and Literature in Russia and Eastern Europe.” Yale University, Spring 2023.
Supported by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund Conference Award.
Selected Conference Presentations:
“Russian Psychology and the Arts” (roundtable), ASEEES, Chicago, IL. November 13, 2022.
“The Science of Becoming: Developmental Psychology in Leo Tolstoy’s Aesthetics,” ASEEES, Chicago, IL. November 13, 2022.
“Reframing How We Talk about Teaching Persona,” Teaching Transformations Summit, virtual. May 6, 2022.
“Capturing Time: Social Conservatism and Popular Science in Early 20th century Russia,” How Science Became Popular: Epistemic Governance and Scientific Citizenship in the Twentieth Century. The University of Houston, March 26, 2022.
“Slavic Medical Humanities: Theory and Practice” (roundtable), ASEEES, virtual. December 2, 2021.
“The Science of Theater: Cognitive Psychology in the Drama of Anton Chekhov and Lev Tolstoy,” ASEEES, virtual. December 1, 2021.
“‘И в хижине бедняка, и в богатой семье’: Mass Readership and Science Fiction in the 19th Century,” Конференция “Жанры, формы, практики массовой литературы в России,” Sorbonne University. June 15, 2021.
“Teaching Theater Digitally,” Teaching Transformations Summit, online. May 7, 2021.
“Theater of the Unstageable: The Power of Darkness in Tolstoy’s Late Aesthetics,” ASEEES, virtuak. November 6, 2020.
Slavic Digital Humanities Workshop, Princeton University, Slavic Digital Humanities Working Group. September 3-6, 2019.
“Место для поздней эстетики Льва Толстого: пространство и аффект в ‘Воскресении,’” XI International Academic Conference “Lev Tolstoy and World Literature,” Museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy ‘Yasnaya Polyana,’ Tula. August 12, 2018.
“Contesting Constructions of Post-Soviet Identity in Vyrypaev’s Theater.” Playwriting Without Borders: 21st-Century Theatre in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, University of Oxford. April 6, 2017.
Selected Awards:
2022, The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund Conference Award, Yale University
2022, Research Associate, Virtual Summer Research Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2021–2022, MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship,
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
2020–2021, Dean’s Fund Award, Yale University
2019–2021, European Studies Graduate Fellowship, European Studies Council, Yale University
2019–2020, Russian Studies Dissertation Fellowship, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University