Experience

MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute

• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Researcher

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Participating in a research project on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husayni, translating relevant KGB materials published in Russian into English. Analysing Russian media, preparing reviews and translations of articles and videos into English. Participating in a research project on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husayni, translating relevant KGB materials published in Russian into English. Analysing Russian media, preparing reviews and translations of articles and videos into English.



Higher School of Economics

• Russian Federation
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor

  • Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

  I prepared and taught two courses on Game Design and Game Studies for MA and BA students at Art and Design School. One of the courses was called "Introduction to Game Studies" and aimed at giving BA and MA students tools of analysing video games by means of philosophy and other humanities. I have organised the course around the notion of the implied player that I coined up during my own research in game studies. Implied player is a role that game prepares for a possible player. By using the concept one can analyse how games encourage a player to share certain ethical systems and values or produce aesthetical effects of sublime or awe. Another course called "Game Studies" was designed solely for MA students and more specifically aimed at developing analytical and research skills necessary for conducting a research as a part of a future MA thesis. The course was organised as a research seminar where several groups of students (labs) conducted research relevant for their own projects. The final class was organised as a conference open to a wider audience: the labs presented their projects not only to HSE staff but also to everyone who wanted to visit HSE and listen to the presentations. I was working at popularising the event and inviting people from academia and game industry interested in game research. Research Experience: - Proposed new arguments against the nominalistic theory of aesthetic properties by analysing logical properties of aesthetic terms and by constructing various thought experiments based on their usage. Show less



AST publishers

• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Translator

  • Sep 2022 - May 2023

  I translated four books by Byung-Chul Han from German into Russian, namely "The Agony of Eros", "The Burnout Society", "The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering", "The Crisis of Narration". All of them are getting published in 2023. I translated four books by Byung-Chul Han from German into Russian, namely "The Agony of Eros", "The Burnout Society", "The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering", "The Crisis of Narration". All of them are getting published in 2023.



University of Tyumen

• Tyumen, Tyumen’, Russia

• Assistant Professor

  • Sep 2020 - Aug 2022

  Project management on the development and implementation of the BA program in Philosophy (team - 15 people): - analysing the needs of the target audience (students) and the market - developing a curriculum that meets the educational objectives - selection and attraction of partners for organizing practical training of students - designing individual educational trajectories of students within the program - development of methodological support for courses: programs of disciplines, creative assignments, tests Developing and reading courses in game design, computer game history, and philosophy: - research: collecting information for the courses - drafting course syllabi - development of methodological support for courses: selecting topics and materials for discussions and project work by students - creation and implementation of mechanisms for assessing the knowledge gained - introduction of contemporary formats in the educational process: edutainment, project based learning, blending-learning - improvement of course educational programs based on feedback from students Organisation of the online conference "Care and Video Games" and of the online seminar "Game/Play: Studies, Criticism, Design" on video game research on the basis of the National Research University Higher School of Economics: - recruitment, negotiation and engagement of experts - spreading information about the conference among the target audience - support and coordination of experts' work - peer-review of applications - moderating sections and workshop meetings - support of the seminar's work in social networks Research experience: Analysed the notion of Post-Truth proposed by Steve Fuller and published the analysis in a Q1 journal "Russian Sociological Review". Researched publications on game hermeneutics from game studies journals and coined up my own conception of implied player that could allow to solve the main problems of game hermeneutics. Show less



European University in St. Petersburg

• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • May 2022 - Jun 2022

  Conducting a research project on how republicanism as political philosophy conceives civic education, its practices and institutions. Since the issue of civic virtue, "virtus" has been at the centre of republican philosophy since antiquity, the questions of education have also been regularly raised in this tradition: if a harmoniously developing republic requires virtuous citizens, educating such citizens becomes a key enterprise. For the same reason, the question of education is also relevant for modern republicanism. In the contemporary research literature devoted to this topic, the problem of education is concretized within the framework of three questions initially posed by Collin M. Macleod [Colin M. Macleod (2015) Freedom as non-domination and educational justice, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 18:4, 456-469]: 1) Is the civic republican concept of non-domination applicable to children? 2) What a republican curriculum would look like? 3) Can civic republicanism guarantee social justice in education? I have analysed main attempts to answer these questions presented in the research literature, as well as identified important gaps in it (insufficient development of “intrinsic” republicanism, insufficient attention to higher education) and possible ways to fill them. Show less



Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2017 - Oct 2020

  Developing and teaching a course on the Hermeneutics of Video Games: - research: selection of information on the course - drafting the course program - Creation and implementation of mechanisms for assessing the knowledge gained Developing and teaching philosophy courses for natural sciences students: - analyzing students' needs for the course - Developing a course syllabus and orienting it to different course formats - Development of methodological support for the course - Creation and implementation of assessment mechanisms - introduction of modern formats in the educational process: edutainment, project-based learning, blending-learning Developing and teaching classes in philosophy with pupils in grades 8-9 at Skolkovo Gymnasium: - research: selection of information for the course - course program development - development of methodological support for the course: preparation of presentations - Teaching the classes in a dialogic form Organisation of a popular lecture course on video game research at the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: - selection and involvement of experts, negotiations with the museum - course program development - communication with speakers, administration and support of their work - conducting lectures as part of the course Research experience: - I proposed a way to de-transcendentalize the concept of the life-world (Lebenswelt), which is a phenomenological term for basic, pre-theoretical, intersubjective knowledge. To fulfil the task, I combined concepts proposed by Actor-Network Theory with those proposed by Jurgen Habermas. - I proposed a project of phenomenology of anxiety to overcome what Quentin Meilassoux called the philosophical correlationism. -Together with my colleague Polina Khanova, I researched main strategies of representing Native Americans in video gamesand movies. Show less



Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University)

• Russian Federation
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Lecturer

  • Sep 2017 - Aug 2018

  Developing and teaching the course "From Plato to Video Games: An Introduction to Political Philosophy": - research: preparing the course materials - drafting of the course syllabus - creation and implementation of mechanisms for assessing the knowledge gained - development of methodological support for the course - introduction of modern formats in the educational process: edutainment, project based learning Developing and teaching the course "From Plato to Video Games: An Introduction to Political Philosophy": - research: preparing the course materials - drafting of the course syllabus - creation and implementation of mechanisms for assessing the knowledge gained - development of methodological support for the course - introduction of modern formats in the educational process: edutainment, project based learning



Elementary Forms Press

• Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• Freelance Translator

  • Apr 2018 - Jul 2018

  I translated E. Goffman's "Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates". The translation was published in 2019. I translated E. Goffman's "Asylums: Essays on the Condition of the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates". The translation was published in 2019.



Institute of Philosophy (Russian Academy of Sciences)

• Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• Associate Researcher

  • Dec 2016 - Sep 2017

  Organisation of the conference "Videogames: research, criticism, design": - peer-reviewing of applications - moderation of panels Organization of seminars of the Moscow Center for Video Games Research: - peer-reviewing of applications - moderating sections and workshop meetings - Supporting the work of the seminars in social networks Participation in scientific and popular science conferences as a speaker Publishing and editorial activity: - Editor of the "video games" department in the online media "This Is Media": searching for authors, editing articles, writing articles Research Activity: Working on PhD thesis. My PhD thesis examined the metaphysical heritage of phenomenological and hermeneutical traditions in philosophy influenced the J. Habermas' notion of the "lifeworld". I argued that this led to inconsistency in the very foundations of the Habermas' work. I argued that in order to sove the problem one could use the ideas offered by so called practice turn in social theory, more precisely to the notion of negotiations proposed by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour. Show less