2005-2009

I received a Ph.D. in Linguistics at Purdue University. Dissertation committee:

• Distinguished professor Victor Raskin (advisor),
• Professor Salvatore Attardo
• Professor Myrdene Anderson
• Professor Shaun Hughes

Dissertation title: "The Narrative joke: conceptual structure and linguistic manifestation". The study provides a problem-driven approach to verbal humor generation, based on leading trends in Linguistic humor research, Semantic Script-based Theory of Humor (SSTH) and General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH), and using Ontological Semantics script representation system. An attempt is made to explain how narrative (i.e. "canned") jokes are generated. The abstract can be found here.

Purdue courses transcript can be found here.

During 2007-2008 I worked as a Research Assistant at the nation's leading Center for Education, Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University. Project: Ontological Semantics support for the domain of privacy policy. Project supervisor: prof. Victor Raskin.

2002-2005

I received a Ph.D. (aka "kandidatskaya") in Philology at Anton Chekhov Taganrog Pedagogical Institute in Russia. Dissertation topic: "Modern joke in textual, genristic and discursive aspects". A general overview of modern joke as a text, speech genre (along the lines of M. Bakhtin's system) and discourse is provided with an emphasis on inferential paths leading to humor recognition.

1997-2002

From 1997 to 2002 I double-majored with M.A. (summa cum laude) in Russian and English Linguistics at Anton Chekhov Taganrog Pedagogical Institute.