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CURRICULUM VITAESergey B. Dolgopolski, Ph. D.WORK ADDRESS

University of Kansas, LawrenceDepartment of Religious Studies1300 Oread Avenue, 106 Smith HallTel.: (785) 864-5568 • Fax: (785) 864-5205E-mail: sergey.berkeley@gmail.com, sbd@ku.eduWeb: www.people.ku.edu/~sbd

EDUCATION

2005 - 2006 Post-Doc. University of California, Berkeley; Departments of Rhetoric, Near Eastern Studies; Center for New Media; The Townsend Center Strategic WorkingGroup in New Media, Theories of New Media and Interpretation in (Post)Talmudic Thought.May 2004 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. Joint Doctoral Program in JewishStudies.Dissertation:

The Rhetoric of the Talmud in the Perspective of Post-Structuralism

Examination Fields: Rabbinics, Modern Philosophy, Contemporary PhilosophyCommittee: Daniel Boyarin (chair), Martin Jay, Dina Stein, David Bates, and Naomi Seidman.1999 Doctor of Philosophical Sciences. Institute of Cultural Research, RussianAcademy Sciences, Moscow, Philosophy of Culture.Dissertation:

Constitution of the Field of Sense in Speech Facts: A Post-Structuralist Approach to the Babylonian Gemarah

May 1996 M.A. Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow. Hebrew Philology, with

Honors.1991 Candidate of

Philosophical Sciences, Rostov University, Rostov on the Don,Ontology and

Epistemology.Disseration:

The Problem of Reflection In and Beyond Philosophical Speculation: A Cultural-Historical Approach

1986 B.A. Rostov University, Rostov on the Don

Department of Philosophy, withExcellence.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Fall 1996 - Spring 1997

Methods of Education, Jewish and General

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.Fall 1997 - Spring 1998

Educational leadership,

Jerusalem Fellows, Jerusalem.Fall 1996 - Spring 1998

Talmudic Studies

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem.Fall 1997 - Spring 1998 Hartman Institute (

Beth Midrash

), Jerusalem.Fall 1991 – Spring1994 Informal education (yeshiva), Moscow.

EMPLOYMENT

August 2006 - Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas2005 - 2006 Mellon Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Near Eastern Studies,Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley,Jan. 2005, Jan. 2006 Lecturer, Center of Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union,Berkeley, Winter Beth-MidrashSummer 2004, 2005, Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University of California,Winter 2005 DavisSpring 2004 Lecturer, Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, GraduateTheological Union, BerkeleyFall 2000 - Spring 2003 Instructor, Department of Theology, University of San Francisco, SanFranciscoFall 1998 - Spring 1999 Instructor, Center for Jewish Studies, Lomonosov Moscow University,MoscowFall 1995, Fall 1998 Instructor

Institute for Psychoanalysis, MoscowSpring 1999

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Rabbinics, Talmudic and Post-Talmudic Thought; Talmud and Philosophy; Jewish-ChristianRelationship; Jewish Thought; Classical and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Of Talmudic Rhetoric: An Analysis in View of Post-Structuralism. Affect and Figure.

Ed. by IlyaDvorkin,

New Horizons. Jewish Thought in the Modern World

. Saint - Petersburg: TheUnited Publishing Project of Petersburg Jewish University and the Russian JewryHeritage Center (M.I.R.) in Jerusalem, 1998. [Russian with a Summary in English]

What Is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement

N.Y. Fordham University Press. 2009 [333 p.]

Talmud, Philosophy, Virtuality

In progress. Under a contract with Fordham University Press.[due in press by October 2010]PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES"What is the Sophist? Who is the Rabbi?"

New Directions in Jewish Philosophy

Ed. By Aaron

Hughes, Elliot Wolfson, Indiana University Press, Fall 2009 [in press] [54 pages] Invited,Peer-reviewed In press "Sense in Making: Hermeneutical Practices of the Babylonian Talmud Against the Backgroundof Medieval and Contemporary Views."

Studies in Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

[40 pages] Invited, Peer-reviewed. Special issue in Judaic Logic, 2009. In Press"Eliciting the Language: Language and Allegory in Benjamin and De Man."

Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature

2, no. 29 (2001): 152 - 62. [Russian]. Peer-reviewed."Against Rhetoric."

Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature

2, no. 12 (1999): 57 - 79.[Russian]. Peer-reviewed."Constituting a Field of Sense in Speech Facts. Analysis of Theoretical Rhetoric of the

Babylonian Gemarrah

." Dissertation presented for a degree of Doctor of Philosophy inCultural Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999. [Russian]. Peer-reviewed.“Descartes and Spinoza: Heuristics of

Cartesian Meditations

." In

Meeting Descartes

, edited byYury Senokosov, n/a. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1998. [Russian]. Peer-reviewed.

"From Topos to Figure: A Topolgy outside of Seeing." In

Produced and Called

, edited by JuriSenokosov; Vitim Kruglikov, 220-34. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1998. [Russian] Peer-reviewed."The Hidden: Non-Expressionism in Philosophy."

Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature

5, no. 15 (1999): 121 -33. [Russian]. Peer-reviewed."Interview with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen."

Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature

5, no.15 (1999): 149 - 54. [Russian]. Peer-reviewed."The Problem of Reflection in and Beyond Philosophical Speculation." Dissertation presentedfor a degree of Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Rostov University, 1991. [Russian].Peer-reviewed."Speculation and Infinity: Hegel and Derrida (a Review)."

Contemporary Research in GermanClassical Philosophy Abroad. A Collection of Reviews

, no. 4 (1991): 171-91. [Russian]BOOK REVIEWS“Judaism in Practice from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, edited byLawrence Fine, Princeton Readings in Religions, Princeton and Oxford: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2001” A Book Review.

Shofar

22 (3):136-137.PAPERS PRESENTED‘Do two lives weigh the same? Translation and Construction of the Talmud from the Brisker Ravto Mishneh Torah’ for the session““Translation in Medieval and Early Modern JewishPhilosophy,” ” Accosiation of Jewish Studies (AJS), San-Diego, CA, December 20-22,2009 [Planned]‘In/Of: Rhetorical-Ontological Positioning of the Talmud’s Redactors’ for the panel “Rabbinics,Philosophy, and Rhetoric” American Academy of Religion (AAR), Montreal, QC, November 8, 2009 [Planned]‘“With the Hand of His Heart” or Who speakes, thinks, and remembers in the Talmud?’ KUJewish Studies Intellectual Community Seminar, Lawrence, KS, September 24, 2009‘Virtual Agents and Human Subjects in Talmud and philosophy’ Invited presentation for the‘Past Approaches, New Directions’ conference, April 20–22, 2009 at McMaster University and King's University College/University of Western Ontario, Canada.[Invited]‘In Front of the Text: Reading Self in Rabbinic Literature’ Association of Jewish Studies.Washington, DC December 2008.‘Reading Self in Rabbinic Literature’ Before 1500 Seminar’ Hall Center for Humanities, KULawrence, November 11, 2008.‘Animals Do Not Die: Autonomy of Expounding and Taxonomy of Mortality in TalmudicArgument’ Association of Jewish Studies, Toronto, December 2007.'Talmud, And, Philosophy: A Talmudic Perspective on Philosophical Call’ for the panel“Talmud and Philosophy” American Academy of Religion (AAR), San-Diego, November 2007'What is the Sophist? Who is the Rabbi?' -- a presentation for a Seminar on Philosophy andLiterature, at the Hall Center for Humanities; October 29 2007'Hermeneutics of Anonymity' Association of Jewish Studies (AJS), San-Diego, December 2006'From Hermeneutics of Intellect to Exegesis of Scriptutre: Passover Haggada in the Making'American Historical Assocation" Januray 2006'Is Media Always Technology?' Center for New Media, Townsend Center, Berkeley, November 2005.