2000 - Present  Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Dept. of Comparative Literature,  Emory University

Spring 2002 Lindholm Professor, Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Oregon (Eugene).

Fall 1995 - Spring 2000 Associate Professor. REALC, Emory University

Fall 1990 - Spring 1995 Assistant Professor. REALC, Emory University.

Aug. 1990 - Aug. 1991 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC.

Spring l990  Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

1988 - 1990 Director of the Laboratory of Contemporary Culture, Experimental Center of Creativity, Moscow. Conducted and coordinated interdisciplinary research projects on new literary and intellectual trends in the USSR.

l988 Visiting Professor at the Gorky Literary Institute, Moscow.  20th c. literary theory.

1986 - 1988 Director of the "Image and Thought" Association. Conducted and coordinated interdisciplinary seminars involving collaboration of writers, artists, critics and scientists.

1978 - 1985  The Union of Writers of the USSR. Lecturer at the Moscow Bureau of Literary Education. Lecture topics included history of Russian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and literary theory.

l973 - l977  Independent scholar; researcher at the Department of Theoretical Problems,  World Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

l973 - l977 Lecturer of Russian language and literature at Moscow Power Institute and All-Union Institute of Finance and Economics. Courses: Russian Literature of the 19th C.; Russian Literature of the 20th C.; Practical Grammar and Style of Russian Language; Literary Composition.