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Ilja Kukuj is a coordinator for Russian Language Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He studied Russian and Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies in St. Petersburg (Russia) and Bielefeld (Germany), his PhD thesis “The Concept of veshch‘ [thing] in the Russian Avant-Garde” (München, 2010) was awarded David Burliuk Prize. Kukuj is the author of numerous publications on Russian Avant-Garde, Soviet unofficial culture and cinema and the editor of several volumes on Soviet underground poetry including Leonid Aronzon, Oleg Prokofiev, Anri Volokhonsky, Pavel Zal’tsman, and many others. Kukuj is co-editor of Wiener Slawistischer Almanach and the member of Editorial Board of The Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat (Toronto). 2022 he was awarded Andrei Bely Prize for his services to Russian literature.

EDUCATION

• PhD (Dr. phil.):
  2008, University of Bielefeld, Germany
• Master of Arts:
  1996–2000, University of Bielefeld, Germany
  Slavic studies and Comparative literature
• Bachelor of Arst (= teaching diploma):
  1987–1992, Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
  Teacher of Russian language and literature

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT

• 2006 – present, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany
  Senior lecturer and coordinator in Russian language studies

• 2000–2005, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
  Lecturer for Russian language