About this blog

This blog was initially set up as the means to republish the texts I submitted previously to Exzibit.net webzine. Between May 2005 and February 2006 I published about 20 articles there. I have written for print before, but never in English. So, in addition to getting accustomed to writing in English regularly on a variety of topics, I also used Exzibit.net to showcase my style and skills and to build the readership. The texts ranged from features on euthanasia and culture, through fashion, to film reviews. I was the second most-read author, with more than 20,000 readers. Several texts were republished elsewhere on the web.

I subsequently decided to republish those articles and also several other texts on a site of my own, which I could use as my portfolio. All texts that appear here, in English as in Russian, are my own work. If you link to any of the texts, or wish to quote, please reference them accordingly, i.e. including the author’s name (Julia Shuvalova), the article’s title, and the source (http://avidadollars.wordpress.com). If you would like to reprint any text, please contact me for permission. Please note that I do not approve of any unauthorised alterations, but I would consider suggestions from publishers and editors.

A short navigation through pages:

Exzibit.net – all the articles that were published at the now nonexistent resource.

Afisha.ru – short film reviews published at the site of one of Russia’s leading entertainment publications.

Various texts – these include early published works, and some unpublished texts.

Los Cuadernos de Julia – a peek at the range of posts from my English blog.

About Julia Shuvalova

Personal

I was born in Moscow, Russia, and came to Manchester, England in 2003, where I have been living since. I possess a wide range of experience in the Media (print, radio, TV, and online), including research and interviewing, sound recording and editing, and writing for the web. Additionally, I am experienced as a translator and interpreter, and worked in the Internet Marketing industry. I am passionate about the Arts, especially Literature (as a writer), Music, and Cinema, with the recent addition of Photography. My interests are History, Travel, Foreign Languages, but also virtually everything in the Humanities. And my hobbies are knitting and crocheting.

Education

BA/MA with distinction in History (‘02) from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

MA in History (‘04) from the University of Manchester, UK

Work (the industries where I worked since 2003)

Search Engine Marketing – SEO and Social Media (PushON Ltd)

Search Engine Marketing – PPC (Latitude Group Ltd)

Media (BBC Manchester, QT Radio)

Language Services (Latitude Group Ltd, Datamonitor, BBC Four, BBC Manchester, The Herald of Europe, Hummel)

Some of the projects in which I have been involved

Manchester Bloggers Group (since 2006)

Beck’s Canvas (2008.)

Sky Arts’ Inside The Bloggers’ Studio (2008.)

Open Directory Project (since 2007)

Stella Artois Promotional Projects (2007)

BBC Manchester Blog (2006-2008.)

BBC People’s War (June 2005 – January 2006)

Academic Interests

Medieval and Early Modern European History (particularly England, France, and Italy), Political History, Intellectual History, History of Arts, Cultural History. My MA at the Lomonosov MSU focused on the Privy Council in the reign of Edward VI Tudor (1547-1553). My MA at the University of Manchester was a textual analysis of the first English translation from Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita. The study stood on the crossroads of History, Translation Studies, and Literary Criticism. I completed one year towards the PhD in Tudor History at the Lomonosov MSU where I was intending to write a dissertation about the mid-Tudor Court (focusing on the reigns of Edward VI (1547-1553) and Mary I (1553-1558). I subsequently identified the topic which I have been researching independently since 2004: the literary and intellectual exchange between England and the Continent (especially England, France and Italy) approx. in the years between 1530 and 1570. Between the years 1997 and 2004 I was trained in a wide range of subjects, including Historical Georgraphy, Philosophy, History of Art, and Palaeography. Between 2000 and 2004 I also took part in academic conferences with papers covering such subjects as rumours, translations from the classical authors, memoirs, and methodology of History.

Foreign Languages

Russian (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), Italian (reading), German (reading), Latin.

Further links:

The English blog, Notebooks – Los Cuadernos de Julia http://loscuadernosdejulia.blogspot.com

The Russian blog, Los Cuadernos de Julia http://loscuadernos.livejournal.com

The LOOK’s website (the programme was running from April 2005 till December 2006) http://hometown.aol.com/lookqtradio