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Vyacheslav
Ivanov was educated at Moscow University (in the departments
of Romance and Germanic philology and Sanskrit and Indo-European
Studies) and received his Ph.D. in Hittite and Indo-European
in 1955. He taught comparative and general linguistics at
Moscow University, until 1958, when he was dismissed because
of his friendship with Boris Pasternak. Although unable to
travel abroad for political reasons, he was still able to
continue his research work in the Institutes of the Academy
of Sciences. In 1988 he was invited to return to Moscow University
to become Chair of the new Department of the Theory and History
of World Culture and Director of its affiliated Research Institute.
Since 1988, Professor Ivanov began teaching regularly in American
universities—first at Yale University, then at Stanford University,
and finally at the University of California, Los Angeles,
where he is currently a professor in the department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures and in the Indo-European Studies
Program. He has authored more than fifteen books and 1000
journal articles. Since 1992, he has been editor-in-chief
of a new journal in Slavic studies: Elementa. Journal of
Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics, which
continues the tradition of the Moscow-Tartu school of Semiotics,
which he and friends co-founded.
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