Lecturer in Russian
On leave Academic Year 2022-2023
Prior to her work at Boston University, she taught at UMass Boston, College of the Holly Cross, Brandeis University and SUNY Albany. She also has been teaching all levels of Russian language at the University of Pittsburgh’s Summer Language Institute. Her research and teaching areas include Russian, Ukrainian, cross-cultural communication, cultural history, media discourse analysis and translation theories. Among her other areas of expertise are testing and assessment of second language proficiency, methods of foreign language teaching, developing Russian language teaching materials and educational technology. She is an active OPI tester of Russian language. Her book, Renaissance of Classical Allusions in Contemporary Russian Media (Lexington Books, 2014) examines allusions to the Russian literary canon in post-Soviet media; and she contributed to the dual-language anthology Skaz: Masters of Russian Storytelling (Translit Publishing, 2015).