Language Schools Russian Faculty

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Directors

Director: KAREN EVANS-ROMAINE
Associate Professor of Russian, Ohio University, Ph.D. University of Michigan

Associate Director: GALINA AKSENOVA
Associate Professor of Cinema at the Moscow Art Theater School; Kandidatskaya, State Institute of Theater Arts, Moscow

Evgenia Dvinova
Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg
Kandidatskaya, Herzen State Pedagogical University

Petko Ivanov
University of Chicago
MA, University of Chicago

Viktoria Ivleva
College of William and Mary
MA, University of Wisconsin

Brian R. Johnson
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Nina Kostiuk
St. Petersburg State University
Kandidatskaya, Leningrad State University

Aleksandr Logunov
Russian State University for the Humanities
Doktorskaya, Russian State University for the Humanities

Jason Merrill
Michigan State University
Ph.D., University of Kansas

Larisa Moskvitina
St. Petersburg State University
Kandidatskaya, Leningrad State University

Susanna Nazarova
Temple University
MA, University of California, Davis
Diploma, Institute of Asia and Africa, Moscow State University

Olga Oleynik
University of South Florida
Kandidatskaya, Pushkin Institute of Russian Language, Moscow

Oleg Proskurin
Kandidatskaya, Moscow State University

Elena Shchepina
Smolny College, St. Petersburg University.
Kandidatskaya, Herzen State Pedagogical University

Aleksei Shmelev
Professor, Moscow State Pedagogical University;
Head of Department of Russian Linguistic Standards, Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Doktorskaya, Moscow State Pedagogical University

Elena Shmeleva
Institute of Russian Language, Russian Academy of Sciences
Kandidatskaya, Moscow State University

Evgenii Slivkin
University of Oklahoma
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MFA, Gorky Institute for Literary Studies, Moscow

Tatiana Smorodinskaya
Middlebury College
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Diploma, Moscow State University

Shannon Donnally Spasova
Dalhousie University
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Svetlana Stepanova
St. Petersburg University
Kandidatskaya, Leningrad State University

Molly Thomasy
University of Wisconsin, Madison
MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Svetlana Titkova
Kitaigorodskaya Center for Foreign Language Instruction, Moscow State University
Kandidatskaya, Moscow State University

Valentina Troufanova
Russian State University for the Humanities
Kandidatskaya, Moscow State University

Ilya Vinitsky
University of Pennsylvania
Doktorskaya, Moscow State Pedagogical University

Sergei Soloviev
Film Director

Sergei Kokovkin
Writer, Director, Moscow
St. Petersburg Institute of Music, Theater, and Cinematography

Anna Rodionova
Writer, Moscow
MA, Moscow Institute of Cinematography
MA, Gorky Literary Institute

Zolotoi Plios
Sergei Gratchev, Elena Sadina, and Aleksandr Solovov
Diplomas, Saratov State Conservatory of Music; Royal Carillon School, Mechelen, Belgium
Sergei Gratchev: City Carilloneur, Hulst, Holland
Elena Sadina: Professor, Royal Carillon School, Mechelen

Olga Solovova
Artist and Art Restorer, Mechelen, Belgium
Graduate, Balakovo Art Academy

Vera Proskurina
Emory University
Kandidatskaya, Moscow State University

Anna Andrulaitis
Diploma, Irkutsk State University