Education:
- Herzen Saint-Petersburg University – St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004
Ph.D. – English Literature & Interdisciplinary Studies (w/ Honors) - Arzamas State Pedagogical University – Arzamas, Russia, 2000
M.A. – Classical Philosophy & ESL (w/ Honors)
Bio/Affiliation:
Dr. Legg’s teaching interests cover the Intermediality in literary discourse. Previous research interests have focused on “Theatricality as a type of creative world modeling in English Literature (XIX-XX centuries)” based on Intermedial analyses. She was published in multiple Journals and Research Almanacs. Her published works covered different aspects of methodology and semiotics of interdisciplinary research in Literature and Art of the XX century. In the past few years, she has delivered papers at some International meetings and conferences.
Dr. Legg has recently developed two new courses entitled “Dialogue and Imagination” based on Bakhtin’s philosophical ideas and “Representation and Creativity” which is focusing upon the semiotic approach to understand “madness” as a creative force based on research of sociological and cultural dissonances bordering trans-disciplinary studies of psychoanalysis, analytical philosophy, and theoretical poetics. Media and Diversity: Collectivist vs Individualistic Perception of Media, introducing and broadening students’ knowledge about individualistic and collectivist cultures and giving them the tools/understanding to embody specific values, or thoughts and ideas that they view as important and Urban Anthropology: drawing from multiple disciplines, “the city” reverts to its projection as “performative symbol” to provide a microcosm of political economy and inequality, cultural and social dynamics of identity, race and exclusion, gender and sexuality, surveillance and privacy, and the dislocation of physical presence brought by social media and internet acculturation.
Awards/Honors:
- Years of Service (32 semesters) and Dedicated Service Award, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, 2020
- Certificate of Appreciation for contribution and dedication, Saudi Students Association, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, February 2018
- The Excellence in Teaching Award for MCD School (Media,Culture, and Design), Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, 2017
- Faculty Advisor Appreciation Award Communication Club, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, 2015
- Teacher Appreciation Award, Woodbury University, Burbank, California, 2009
Publications:
- Theatricality as a Way of Life, currently under contract with The Edwin Mellen Press
Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Semiotics in the Context of Visual Culture, a case study of the film Le Bal directed by Ettore Scola, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2020 - Recently delivered papers at international meetings and conferences such as the IV
International Conference of the Russian Communication Association, Communication Studies
Today: At the Crossroads of the Disciplines
“Bakhtin’s Dialogism, Semiotics and Theatricality in the film Le Bal, directed by Ettore Scola,” Association of Independent Colleges of At and Design conference, Chicago, IL, November, 2018 - “Carnivalesque and Society: Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Cultural Semiotics in the film Harold and Maude directed by Hal Ashby,” Philosophy of Communication conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2015
- “The Blurring Border and Carnivalesque of Artistic «Madness» in the Context of Bakhtin’s Dialogism,” Popular Culture Association Conference, Boston, MA, 2012
- “The Semiotic Approach to Understand “Madness” as a Creative Force Manifested in the Life and Works by Oscar Wilde,” Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, April, 2011
- “The Principle of Intermedial Organization in the Novel Vanity Fair by W. Thackeray,” The Baltic Seminar International Research Almanac Vol.1, St-Petersburg, 2008
- “The Concept of Game and Theatricality in Western Literary Tradition,” The Cultural Space of Play – Cultural Space of the Game, The Materials of Scientific Forum, S-Petersburg, 2002
- “Theatricality as a Way of Life in O. Wilde’s Creative Work” Unity and National Originality in World Literary Process, LIV Herzen readings, Saint-Petersburg, 2002
- “The Problem of Parity of Life and Stage in S. Maugham’s Novel Theatre,” Interaction of Literature and Art in Culture of XX Century, Methodology of Interdisciplinary Research, Saint-Petersburg, 2001
- Active participant at Summer Institute for Faculty Development at Hope College, Holland, Michigan (National Communication Association) where I participated in seminars on “Rhetoric, Identity, Citizenship, and Civic Culture,” “A Seminar in Instructional Communication Theory and Practice,” “Teaching Mass Media” and a Seminar in “Intercultural Communication,” July, 2014