Resume of Emil Draitser

EMIL DRAITSER

(212) 772-4963 - office

e-mail: emil.draitser@hunter.cuny.edu

November 1, 2003

EDUCATION
1976-1983 Ph.D in Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California at Los Angeles.
1972-1974 MA in Journalism, Moscow Institute of Journalism.
1966-1967 Diploma in Editing, Moscow Publishing Institute.
1955-1960 BS in Electrical Engineering, Odessa Polytechnic Institute.
Languages Russian (native), Ukrainian (near-native); reading knowledge of Polish, French, and German.
   

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1986-present Professor, Russian Division, Hunter College of CUNY
1994-present Adjunct Professor, New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies
1986-1994 Member of Faculty, The New School for Social Research
1982-1986 Member of Faculty, Russian Division and Writer's Program, University of California at Los Angeles.
1982-1986 Technical Writer, Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles
1981-1983 Staff Writer, Citicorp's Retail Consumer Services, Marina Del Rey, CA
1976-1981 Lecturer, Teaching Associate, and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles
1975-1976 Translator, Agnew Translation Agency, Los Angeles
1966-1974 Editor, Nedra Publishing House, Moscow, USSR
1964-1974 Correspondent for Crocodile Magazine, Moscow, USSR
  Contributor to leading Russian newspapers and magazines, including Izvestia, Literary Gazette, Literary Russia, Labor, Evening Moscow, etc.
  Television writer and Journalist, Central Television Studios, Moscow
  Script Writer for Mosfilm Studios
CITIZENSHIP U.S. Citizen (Immigrated to the USA 12/30/74)
   

PUBLICATIONS
Books
  Kto ty takoi: Odessa 1945-53 gg. Autobiografischeskie zapiski (Who Are You: Odessa 1945-1953. Autobiographical Notes) (Seagull Publishers, 2003)
  The Supervisor of the Sea and Other Stories (Xenos Books, 2003)
  Twentieth Century Russian Poets (ed. & compl.) (Hermitage, 2003)
  Nineteenth Century Russian Poets (ed. & compl.) (Hermitage, 1999)
  Making War, Not Love: Gender and Sexuality in Russian Humor (St. Martin's, 1999)
  Taking Penguins to the Movies: Ethnic Humor in Russia (Wayne State UP, 1998)
  Techniques of Satire: The Case of Saltykov-Shchedrin (Mouton de Gruyter, 1994)
  The Lost Boy and Other Stories (in Russian) (Moscow Worker, 1993)
  The Fun House (in Russian) (Possev-USA, 1984)
  Forbidden Laughter: Soviet Underground Jokes (bilingual edition) (Almanac, 1980)
Books-in-progress
  Testimony in Ink and Blood: Extraordinary Saga of Sexpionage Master Dmitry Bystrolyotov (biography)
  Zugzwang (short story collection)
  Farewell, Odessa-Mama (a novel)
Short stories and essays
  Published in Partisan Review, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, Midstream, Prism International, Confrontation, International Quarterly, The New Renaissance, Icars, American Writing, New Press Literary Quarterly, Studies in Contemporary Satire, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, Raconteur, and others.
  Over seventy short stories published in Russia (Iunost', Literaturnaia gazeta, Literaturnoe obozrenie, Ogonyok, Stolitsa, Nedelia, etc.), USA (Novyi zhurnal, Novoe Russkoe Slovo, Vestnik, Chaika, etc.), Israel, and Poland (Midrasz).
 

HONORS FOR PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
  City University of New York Grants in Fiction and Non-Fiction, 1987-2003.
  New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1992-3, 2003-4.
  All-Union Literary Competition, Special Prize, Odessa, USSR, 1971.
 

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Listed in CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS (Vol. 18). See also: The New York Times, February 6, 1980; Washington Post, April 9, 1980; Daily Telegraph, (London), November 23, 1980; Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1984; October 11, 1985; Los Angeles Herald Examiner, February 26, 1980; Literaturnaia gazeta (Moscow), April 4, 1991; Literaturnoe obozrenie, (Moscow), #3-4, 1992; Crocodile, (Moscow), #35, 1990; Ogonyok (Moscow), #36, September 1990; Stolitsa (Moscow), #41-42, November 1991; The Jewish Week (New York), March 19, 1999.