Administration
Nana Tsikhelashvili, Associate Professor and Director of the School in Russia. PhD (Kandidat nauk) in History (History of Russian-American Relations), Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), 1998. Ms. Tsikhelashvili joined the School in Russia in 1997. Her previous experience includes work with the Russian State Archives, Russian Television, the American Collegiate Consortium (USIA-supported exchange program administered through Middlebury College) in Moscow, and part-time teaching American History to Russian students at RSUH. Nana most recently served as the Assistant Director.
Simone Bonneville, Assistant Director. B.A. Skidmore College. As a Russian Area Studies major at Skidmore College, Ms. Bonneville spent the fall of 1997 in Yaroslavl with Middlebury's program. Following her graduation in 1999, she joined the Peace Corps and spent the next two years posted in Penza, Russia working as an English teacher. Ms. Bonneville joined the School in Russia as Resident Coordinator in Yaroslavl in 2001. As Assistant Director, she coordinates student orientation in Russia; visa procurement; internship placements; and a number of non-academic affairs, including financial and legal issues and contacts with Russian partner school administrations.
Karen Anderson, Resident Coordinator, Russian State University for the Humanities. B.A. University of Wisconsin, Russian Language/Literature and Violin performance. Karen's interest in all things artistic goes from playing the balalaika, to salsa dancing, to performing classical chamber music. Most recently, she spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan, where she focused on English education and community development.
Megan Corrigan, Resident Coordinator, Yaroslavl State University. B.A. Macalester, Russian. M.A. Johns Hopkins. This will be Megan's second year in Yaroslavl, and she has also worked in Moscow, Vladimir, Ryazan, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg. Her most exciting random Russian experience to date was giving Bill Clinton a tour of Novodevichy Cemetery in 1996. She swears it was just an innocent tour and that absolutely nothing else happened.
Elisabeth Kruger, Resident Coordinator, Irkutsk State University. B.A. Grinnell College, Russian. Elisabeth spent her first year in Irkutsk researching Siberian folk theatre on a Fulbright grant, and is glad to have stayed on to join Middlebury as Resident Coordinator this year. She is active in theatre and music, and loves to spend time in the great Siberian wilderness.
Faculty
Irkutsk State University
Elena Nikolaevna ISCHENKO. Senior Instructor, History Department. Kandidat, Irkutsk State University. She has been teaching foreign students for four years. Courses taught to Middlebury students: spetskurs in Post-Soviet History, spetskurs in History of Siberia.
Olga Vladimirovna KICHATINOVA. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign students. Kandidat, St. Petersburg University. Twenty years experience teaching foreign students, including eleven with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Russian Culture and Civilization.
Lyudmila Semenovna LAPSHINA. Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign students. More than fifteen years experience teaching foreign students, including six years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Praktika Rechi (Written and Oral Speech).
Olga Vladimirovna MURAN. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign students. Kandidat, St. Petersburg State University. More than twenty years experience teaching foreign students, including five years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Advanced Russian Grammar; Syntax and Stylistics, Russian Culture.
Alexandra Vladimirovna POPOVA. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. More than thirty years of experience teaching foreign students, including twelve years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Praktika Rechi (Written and Oral Speech)
Irina Meletievna SHPRAKH. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. More than twenty years of experience teaching foreign students, including eight years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Advanced Russian Grammar, Stylistics(spetskurs)
Galina Innokentievna TUNGUSOVA. Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. Doktor Nauk, Moscow State University. More than twenty-five years of experience teaching foreigners, including twelve years with Americans.
Vladimir Konstantinovch TARNAPOLSKII. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian for Foreign Students. More than thirty years experience teaching foreign students, including twelve years with Americans. Courses taught to Middlebury students: spetskursy in Language of the Mass Media, Contemporary Russian Area Studies, Russian Film.
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Elena Alexandrovna ATLAS. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. MA in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Five years of experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Praktika Rechi (Written and Oral Speech).
Ludmila Grigorievna BANNIKOVA. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Langauge. Twenty years of experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Advanced Russian Grammar, Syntax and Stylistics.
Elena Vladimirovna KOVALCHUK. Senior Instructor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. More than twenty years of experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Russian Grammar
Natalya Viktorovna KREMLOVA. Instructor. Department of Philology. Diplom, Moscow State University. More than twenty years experience teaching foreign students. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Russian Culture.
Natalia Vladimorovna SHATINA. Associate Professor , Department of History, Political Science and Law. Kandidat, Russian State University for the Humanities. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Modern History and Contemporary Politics.
Valentina Yakovlevna TRUFANOVA. Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. More than twenty-five years of experience teaching foreigners. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Phonetics, spetskurs in Language of the Arts.
Olga Ivanovna YASTREBOVA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian as a Foreign Language. Kandidat, Moscow State Linguistics University. More than twenty years of experience teaching foreigners. Courses taught to Middlebury students: Phonetics.
Yaroslavl State University
IRINA VITALIEVNA BORISENKO. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University). Kandidat, Moscow State Pedagogical University. Nine years experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Intermediate and Advanced Russian Grammar, Russian Conversation, Advanced Russian Syntax, spetskurs in Stylistics and Syntax, Russian Song.
ELENA VLADIMIROVNA NAGIBINA.
Four years of experience teaching American students.
Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Russian Conversation, 19th Century Russian Literature, 20th Century Russian Literature.
TATIANA GENNADIEVNA KUCHINA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University). Kandidat, Moscow State University. Seven years of experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: 19th Century Russian Literature, 20th Century Russian Literature.
SVETLANA YURIEVNA RODONOVA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University). Kandidat, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. Eight years of experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Intermediate and Advanced Russian Grammar, Language of the Mass Media, Russian Culture and Civilization.
NATALIA VALERIANOVNA RYABININA. Associate Professor, Department of History. Kandidat, Yaroslavl State University. Six years of experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Russian History 10th C – 1861, Russian History 1861-1991, History of Russian Culture.
Irnia Viktorovna SHUSTINA. Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology (Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University). Kandidat, Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University.
Seven years of experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Phonetics, Contemporary Russian Film.
Olga Ivanovna ZATSEPINA. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science (Yaroslavl Academy of Labor and Social Relations). Kandidat, Yaroslavl State University. Ten years of experience teaching American students. Courses taught to Middlebury participants: Modern History and Contemporary Politics.