1 Elina Kristiina Viljanen (born April 3, 1979) Postdoctoral Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute Ongoing Research Project: STALINISM AND THE SOVIET CULTURAL THEORY OF MUSIC, ITS HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT AND LEGACY Project Sponsors/Employers: Cultura Foundation (2017) University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts (2018–2021) The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters: Eino Jutikkala Foundation (2019) The Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation (2017, 2022)

Nationality and current residence

• Finnish • Karjakatu 28, 20540 Turku, Finland

Education and degrees awarded • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, musicology, 14.3.2017 • Graduate of Finnish Doctoral School of Russian and Eastern European Studies, Aleksanteri

Institute, Finland, 2006–2011 • Master of Arts, University of Helsinki: Faculty of Arts, Department of Musicology, Finland,

2005 • Graduate of Finnish Master’s Program of Russian and Eastern European Studies,

Aleksanteri Institute, Finland, 2005 • Graduate of Puolalanmäki Music High School, Turku, Finland,1999 • Graduate of Summerville High School, California, USA – Graduate high school student of

1997/ASF exchange student 1996–1997 • Varsinais-Suomen Musiikkiopisto/Turku Music School, piano – 1/3, 2/3, 3/3 and 1st

degree in piano 1989–1999 with a side instrument: flute

Other education and training, qualifications and skills • Other Education: o Curso de español intensivo nivel usuario básico, plataforma -a2, Universidad Politécnica de

Cartagena / Instituto Cervantes, Spain, July–August 2016 o Columbian University, Harriman Institute, New York, USA – Asla Fulbright Scholar, 2010–

2011 o St. Petersburg European University – Tempus Exchange Program’s Doctoral Researcher,

Russia 2006 o St. Petersburg State University, Philological Faculty, Russia – Exchange Student, 2003–2004 o Smolnyi Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia – Russian language studies 2002 o Sibelius Academy pedagogical student 2001–2004 and private student of professor emerita

Meri Louhos Linguistic skills

• Finnish: Mother tongue

2 • English: Full professional proficiency (fluent in academic speech, writing and reading)

(Completed academy studies required at the Finnish university degree and two passed TOEFL-tests required when studying at US Institutions)

• Russian: Professional working proficiency (proficient in reading, competent in speech and writing) (Completed academy studies required at the Finnish university degree, third language, Academic year study certificate from the St. Petersburg State University philological faculty and two months’ study certificate from Smolnyi Institute)

• Swedish: Competent working proficiency (competent in speech, writing and reading) (Completed academy studies required at the Finnish university degree, second language)

• Spanish: Basic Proficiency (basic in speech, writing and reading) (high-school studies, Two months’ study certificate from the Cervantes Institute in Spain)

• German: Elementary proficiency (basic in reading) (high-school studies, university studies) Current position

• Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki: Faculty of Arts 1.2.2018–8.12.2021 • Affiliated postdoctoral researcher in the project of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian

Studies “Choices of Russian Modernisation," coordinated by Academy of Finland & Aleksanteri Institute. See http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/crm/structure.html#cluster5, 1.1.2014–31.12.2019

Previous work experience • Postdoctoral Researcher The Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation September 2017–January

2018 • Postdoctoral Researcher Cultura Foundation April 2017, August 2017 • Visiting lecturer in FaceArt Internations Music Institute, Shanghai China October 2014–

September 2015 • Visiting doctoral scholar Nordic Institute of Fudan University, Shanghai, China, October

2014 – September 2015 • Doctoral Researcher, Kone Foundation, January–July 2014 • Doctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, July–September 2013 • Trainee, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, spring 2012 • Asla Fulbright Researcher, Harriman Institute, Columbian University, New York, USA,

academic year 2010–2011 • Founder and organizer of the Aleksanteri Cultural Forum, Aleksanteri Institute, University

of Helsinki, 2009–2012 • Chief Editor of Finnish Graduate School Book Project, 2008–2010 • Doctoral researcher, the Russian and East-European Doctoral School, Aleksanteri Institute,

University of Helsinki, 2006–2010, fall 2011 • Trainee, the Ministry of Education (KUPO) Cultural Export Division, Finland three months’

period, fall 2005 • Employee, Cimo Programme: Deutch-Russischer Austausch E.V. Russian orphanage in St.

Petersburg: “Rebenok v opastnosti” St. Petersburg, Russia, three months’ period, summer 2003

• Accompanist, Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore, Production by the Musical Society of the University of Helsinki (HYMS) 2000–2001

• Occasional substitutions as a piano teacher at the Turku Regional Music Institute (TSMO), Turku, Finland

Research funding as well as leadership and supervision • Research grants and funding: • Eino Jutikkala Foundation 6 months’ mobility grant (16 000) for the University of Granada,

awarded in September 2017 • The Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation one year grant 2017–2018, awarded in June 2017

3 • Helsinki University Fund Travel grant (625€) to the IASS-AIS World Congress, Kaunas,

Liettua. My paper: ”Musical Semiotic Theory in Context: Boris Asafiev as a Cultural Theoretician.” 26.–30.6.2017

• Cultura Foundation Stipend (4400€) – Two months Research Trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow, 2017

• Kone Foundation Stipend (13 800€) – Research for six months at the University of Helsinki, 2013

• University of Helsinki Grant (3600 €) – Research for three months at the University of Helsinki, 2011

• University of Helsinki Counsellor Travel Grant (1200 €) to the 42nd National Convention of AAASS, Los Angeles, USA, given paper: “Russian Music and Patriotism” 18.11–21.11.2010

• Fully funded doctoral researcher, The Russian and East-European Doctoral School, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, 2006–2010, fall 2011

• Asla Fulbright Stipend (15 000 $) – to conduct research at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, USA, academic year 2010–2011

• Finnish Academy of Science Grant (18 000 €) – to conduct research at the Columbia University, USA, academic year 2010–2011

• University of Helsinki Counsellor Travel Grant (1200 €) to the AAASS National Convention in Boston, USA. Panel: “Music and Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Russia,” given paper: “From Temptations to Triumphs – Russian Musical Aesthetics in Transition,” 14.11.2009

• University of Helsinki Counsellor Travel Grant (650 €) to the BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England, given paper: “’Muzyka Kazakhstana’ – Soviet Nation-Building in Music,” 29–31.4.2008

• University of Helsinki Counsellor Travel Grant (520 €) to the BASEES-conference (British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies), given panel: Ideological and Political Formation of Soviet Music, paper: “Boris Asafiev and the Soviet Musicology – Inner Contradictions,” 1−3.4.2006

Merits in teaching and pedagogical competence • Pedagogical training: Lecturer and coordinator of an interdisciplinary methodology course

of the Finnish Master’s School of Russian and East European Studies, 2006–2010. This was also part of the Finnish Doctoral School training. Currently participating to UP1 Learning in Higher Education (5 cr), Spring term 2018 and UP2.1 Constructive Alignment in Course Design (5 cr), Spring term 2018

• University lectures on Russian music history, research methodology, multidisciplinary, Russian cultural studies and research ethics 2006–2017:

o Lecture on multidisciplinary and Russian cultural studies, Finnish Masters School of Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute, 29.9.2017

o Lecture on research methodology, University of Helsinki, Aleksanteri Institute 9.10.2014 o Helsinki Summer school concert lecture: “Melody in Russian History” together with Gabriel Escudero

(Manhattan School of Music, USA),10.08.2012 o Lecture on methodology of musicology, Musicology, University of Helsinki, Finland, 17.11.2008 o Guest lecture: “Boris Asafiev: On Russian Music and Russian Landscape.” University of Glasgow: The School

of Modern Languages, Slavonic Studies Section, Hetherington Building Bute Gardens, 13.2.2007 o Guest lecture: ”Shostakovich ja Asafiev” Department of Russian language and literature, University of Helsinki,

8.11.2006 o Visiting lecturer at the FaceArt Internations Music Institute, Shanghai China 2014–2015. Weekly group and

individual lectures on music history and theory for music students from the age 7–18. • Freelance lectures on music history in different Finnish institutions: o Lecture on Russian History, Porvoo Adult Education Center, Finland, 27.2.2014 o Lecture on Russian History of Music, Hamina Adult Education Center, Finland, 12.2.2014 o Lecture on Russian History of Music, Tuusula Adult Education Center, Finland, 6.11.2013 o Lectures on Russian History of Music, Turku Regional Music Institute (TSMO), Turku, Finland, 23.–30.9.2013

Awards, prizes and honours

• Edita Publishing award (8000 €) – to edit a book as an editor in chief, 2009

4 Other academic merits

• Memberships (Past and current): The Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers, Sibelius Academy music historians, BASEES British Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (member of the Basees music group), ASEEES (former AAASS) Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (member of the ASEES music group), St. Petersburg European University Alumni, Aleksanteri Institute Alumni, University of Helsinki Alumni, New York International House Alumni

• Functioned as a referee for Kikimora Publications and Culture Unbound open access journal and Idäntutkimus journal

• Expert assignments in the media: Yle Radio interview in 2012 http://areena.yle.fi/radio/1546357; 2.3.2009 selected together with Markku Kangaspuro to represent the new generation of researchers of Russia, interview in the Finnish journal Venäjän aika.

Scientific and societal impact of research • Total number of publications: 17:

B1 Viljanen, Elina (2017), Lectio Praecursoria: “Boris Asafiev, musiikin kulttuuriteoreetikko: musiikki kulttuurisena symbolina.” Idäntutkimus. A3 Viljanen, Elina (2017), “From East to West and from West to East: Constructing the Soviet view of Music and Musicology. Musikwissenschaft 1900–1930. Wolfgang Auhagen, Wolfgang Hirschmann, Tomi Mäkelä eds. Hildesheim & New York: Georg Olms Verlag. A3 Viljanen, Elina (2017), “Educating the New Listener – Classical Musician and Russian Modernization.” Philosophical and Cultural Interpretations of Russian Modernization. Katja Lehtisaari & Arto Mustajoki toim. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. G1 Viljanen, Elina (2016), THE PROBLEM OF THE MODERN AND TRADITION: Early Soviet Musical Culture and the Musicological Theory of Boris Asafiev (1884–1949). Helsinki: Acta Semiotica Fennica. B1 Viljanen, Elina (2016), ”Musiikki venäläisen identiteetin rakentajana.” Idäntutkimus 1/2016. B1 Viljanen, Elina (2012), “Tarinoita todellisista neuvostosäveltäjistä.” Idäntutkimus 4/2012. A3 Viljanen Elina (2010), “Miltä Glinka kuulosti Neuvostoliitossa.” Suuri ja Mahtava Metodologia? Elina Viljanen, Jussi Lassila, Kaarina Aitamurto & Anna-Maria Salmi toim., Kleio sarja, Helsinki: Edita. C2 Viljanen, Elina, Lassila, Jussi, Aitamurto, Kaarina & Salmi, Anna-Maria, eds. (2010), Oi Suuri ja Mahtava Metodologia? Kleio series, Helsinki: Edita. A4 Viljanen, Elina (2009), “Deconstructing Soviet Aesthetics and Artistic Consciousness.” Conference Publication of IASS-AIS, Helsinki/Imatra 2007: Acta Semiotica Fennica. A3 Viljanen, Elina (2009), “Boris Asaf’ev: The Artistic Portrayal of Russian Landscape.” The Dacha Kingdom: Summer Dwellers and Dwellings in the Baltic Area Natalia Baschmakoff & Mari Ristolainen toim. Aleksanteri Papers, Kikimora Publications. B1 Viljanen, Elina & Lassila, Jussi (2009), “Globaalin maailman rajat tieteen ja taiteen keinoin Jekaterinburgissa.” Idäntutkimus 1/2009. E1 Viljanen, Elina (2008), “The Aleksanteri Culture Flora and Conference: A Dialogue between Art and Science.” Framework 8/2008.

5 A1 Viljanen, Elina (2008), “Boris Asaf’ev a Soviet Musicologist.” In Proceedings from Imatra Summer Congresses 2003–2006. Acta Semiotica Fennica. A1 Viljanen, Elina (2008), “Taiteen ja tieteen dialogi.” Idäntutkimus 2/2008. B1 Viljanen Elina (2008), “Neuvostomusiikin tutkimuksen uusi sukupolvi.” Idäntutkimus 1/2008. A1 Viljanen, Elina (2006), ”Asafjev – neuvostoliittolaisen kulttuuripolitiikan tasapainotaiteilija.” Idäntutkimus 3/2006. A1 Aitamurto, Kaarina & Viljanen, Elina (2006), ”Nostalgiaa Repinon Summerfolk-konferenssissa.” Idäntutkimus 4/2006.

Other merits

STATEMENTS ABOUT Dr. VILJANEN’S RESEARCH

Professor (emeritus) of Musicology, Dr. Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki) Published review “Elina Viljasen väitös Boris Asafjevista” of Elina Viljanen’s Public Defense of Doctoral Dissertation published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Arts’ Research Synteesi 2016/4, pp .77–79 (translated form Finnish):

- [Viljanen] followed literally the instruction that doctoral dissertation is an independent work of a researcher (…) The result [of Viljanen’s dissertation] is rather tremendous, much more than is required at the faculty (77)

- ..all the information about the foundations of Russian musicology that unfolds from Viljanen’s work is valuable (…) the merit of Viljanen’s work is that it contextualizes Asafjev’s work of life comprehensively by offering endlessly interesting facts about his development. [Viljanen’s work] forms a long-waited basis for the discussion of his [Asafiev’s] contribution for musicology (78)

- Viljanen’s monumental dissertation is relevant introduction to the most varied problems of the relationship between music and society. Although the work belongs to the study of history, it also provides very topical ventilation in the present context.

Professor of Russian and East European Studies Boris Gasparov (Columbia University, NYC, USA). Opponent’s statement in Public Examination of Doctoral Dissertation:

- Ms. Viljanen dissertation answers this serious gap in the studies of Russian twentieth century musical history in a way that is exemplary in its thoroughness and brilliant in its critical incisiveness and conceptual clarity.

- Her work, in terms of its research basis, methodological maturity, and conceptual coherence, represents the cutting edge of contemporary cultural studies in general, and historical musicology in particular.”

- As a musical scholar, Ms. Viljanen belongs to the new generation of scholars who strive to integrate music into cultural history. Her richly contextualized account of Asafiev's career is truly interdisciplinary.”

Shostakovich-scholar Dr. Pauline Fairclough’s (University of Bristol, GB) public “discussant” speech in ASEES Conference 2016:

- Only by really immersing ourselves in the language and thought of any given time, surely, can we gain the necessary perspective required to understand why some people thought and acted as they did. And in this I have been immeasurably helped by the work of Elina Viljanen – a Finnish PhD student whose dissertation has not yet even been defended, but whose exhaustive work on Asafiev has helped clarify for me a great many things that I would otherwise have been unaware of. As Elina’s examiner, I have requested permission to use her work in my response, as I think it will prove to be a vital addition to the growing body of work on Soviet musical discourse in the 1920s and 30s.”

Dr. Fairclough’s preliminary examiner’s report of Viljanen’s Doctoral Dissertation

- I find the thesis admirably well researched and very thorough - It is original, thorough and useful and of interest to an international community of scholars. - Viljanen has excellent knowledge of the field.

Conference Papers and Talks • 25-27.10.2017 “Ivan Lapshin and the Philosophical phase of Soviet Musicology of the 1920s.” 17th Annual

Aleksanteri Conference RUSSIA’S CHOICES FOR 2030. Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies “Choices of Russian Modernisation”

6 • 26.–30.6.2017 ”Musical Semiotic Theory in Context: Boris Asafiev as a Cultural Theoretician.” IASS-AIS World

Congress, Kaunas, Liettua. • 4.–6.6.2017 “The History, Formation and Legacies of the Soviet Cultural Theory of Music after 1917.”

SECOND ANNUAL TARTU CONFERENCE ON RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES. The Russian Revolution and Its Legacies: Taking Stock a Century Later.

• 19.–20.4.2017 “Asafiev as a Cultural Theoretician of Music – a View from Modern Finland.” An International Academic Conference RUSSIAN-FINNISH RELATIONS IN ART AND CULTURE, St. Petersburg, Russia The Department of Contemporary Art at the Russian Institute of Art History

• 24.–25.2.2017 ”Soviet Cultural Theoretician in European Cultural Capitals in 1928”East-West Cultural Relations: Interplay of Arts and Cultural Diplomacy 1945-2017

• 28.10.2016 Discussant at the Conference “Life and Death in Russia” Organiser: Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies - Choices of Russian Modernisation

• 2.6.2015 Preconcert presentation “Sibelius and Nielsen” at the Shanghai Conservatory • 10.08.2012 Helsinki Summer school concert lecture: “Melody in Russian History” together with Gabriel

Escudero (Manhattan School of Music, USA) • 18.11–21.2011 ASEES-Conference, 43nd National Convention of the Association, Washington, USA. Panel:

“Russian music and the Silver Age”, paper: “Boris Asafiev as the Last Silver Age Philosopher” • 18.11–21.11.2010 AAASS-Conference, 42nd National Convention of the Association, Los Angeles, USA, paper:

“Russian Music and Patriotism” • 14–16.4.2010 International Conference in Bristol on Music and Politics at the University of Bristol, UK, paper:

“Temptations and Triumphs – The Tension between Academism and Classical Value in Asafiev’s Musical Worldview”

• 27.11.2009 International Conference “1948 and All That: Soviet Music, Ideology & Power,” CRASSH, Cambridge, UK, paper: “1948 as the Midpoint of Listening: Asafiev’s ‘Sounding Books’”

• 14.11.2009 the AAASS National Convention in Boston, USA. Panel: “Music and Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Russia,” paper: “From Temptations to Triumphs – Russian Musical Aesthetics in Transition”

• 5.10.2009 Aleksanteri Institute Cultural Forum 2009, Helsinki, Finland, paper: “Prokofiev and Russian Cultural Transition through Boris Asafiev”

• 16–18.10.2008 In Transition: Cultural Identities in the age of Transnational and Transcultural flux. International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Yekaterinburg, Russia, paper: “O Narodnoi Muzyke – Manifestations of multiculturalism in Soviet Musical Aesthetics”

• 29–31.4.2008 BASEES Conference, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England, paper: “’Muzyka Kazakhstana’ – Soviet Nation-Building in Music”

• 28–30.8.2007 International Conference: Europe in Russia University of Helsinki, Dept. of Slavonic and Baltic languages and literatures, paper: “Asafiev in Junctions: Mediating Between Russia and Europe”

• 2-4.8.2007 International Congress: Berlin, Regional European Congress ICCEES Transcending Europe’s Borders: The EU and Its Neighbors, paper: “Alternative Paths for Interpreting Soviet Cultural History”

• 10.2.2007 BASEES/RMA Study Day Russian and East European Music in the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, University of St. Andrews, paper: “Inner Contradictions: Boris Asafiev and the Soviet Musicology”

• 31.8.–3.9.2006 The 4th International Conference within the project “Crossroads of Cultures around the Baltic Area”: “SUMMERFOLK” – Summer dwellers and summer dwellings in the Baltic Area (18th-21st centuries), Raivola/Roschino, paper: “Boris Asafiev: Artistic Portrayal of Russian Landscape”

• 1−3.4.2006 BASEES-conference (British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies), panel: Ideological and Political Formation of Soviet Music, paper: “Boris Asafiev and the Soviet Musicology – Inner Contradictions”