ABOUT ME

Hope I’m allowed to use quotes for this:
as in desperation, [he] managed to define culture as a map, as a sieve, and as a matrix.
moonstruck, much-enduring (T. Carlyle about Jean-Paul Marat)
leon trotsky thinks i'm hotsky.
punk rock ruined my life.
the one who unchains.

I define myself as ‘a cultural studies student’ (I specialize in popular music) though I haven’t formally graduated yet (for the record: I’ve almost completed the university program, except for the finals)). I enjoy both doing research and teaching others. For the last 5 years I’ve been working as a private English tutor.

Interests

The thing I’m most passionate about is music, and obviously, I started listening to it as well as making it (mostly vocals and violin; sometimes piano/guitar, though I’m far less skilled in those) – much earlier than turning it into an actual object of study :’D I used to stаte in every description of my profiles on sociаl networks that my BA thesis was (in fаct, it is) about Anti-Flag (“reception practices in contemporary punk rock blah blah blah”)).

There are other things, like ’medical sociology’ (hmm amateur level); a rough description of this hobby can go as: “a “couch expert” consults doctors/clinicians who happen to be her friends and appreciate her curiosity and that she does take time to delve into questions.”
At some point in my life, I learned that there’s an academic journal, “Medical Problems of Performing Arts”, and the very fact made me feel soft of legit c:

• arts
• culture
• concerts
• traveling
• music
• piano
• violin
• history
• languages
• medicine
• languages and cultures

Music, Movies, and Books

music:
anti-flag, coppelius, déportivo, punkreas, ska-p, blink-182, fedez, placebo, the pogues, eminem, the dubliners, los fastidios, steeleye span, helium vola, radiohead, bowie, nirvana, leonard cohen, regina spektor, alina orlova, louise attaque, ashpipe, in extremo, arik einstein, gaelige folk, 8bit, baroque, string concerts, grieg, prokofiev, etc., etc., etc

movies:
inside i'm dancing, sweeney todd… this seems to be one of the areas of popular culture I’m experienced the least with…….
I watch series once in a while:
south park, hannibal nbc, house md, scrubs, archer, adventure time, sponge bob, daria, the good doctor

books:
zweig, yeats, sartre, foucault (dits et écrits), freud, simmel (the metropolitan and mental life), bukharin / trotsky (articles)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Russian, that's for sure!
(and some English because it's my job))
I can tell you a lot about Russian realities, how it's like to be a humanities student there, how our education system works, – and, of course, which stereotypes about Russian culture are true and which are not true at all :)
I love amateur music making, so we can sing or play music together, maybe sing at a karaoke bar...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation