I received my M.A. in Structural and Computational Linguistics from Moscow State University (1979) and Ph.D. (Kandidatskaja 1984) in Russian Linguistics from the Institute of Russian Language of Russian Academy of Sciences. I am now a senior research fellow at the Institute of Russian Language of Russian Academy of Sciences.
I have lectured in Russian linguistics at many universities all over the world. I worked as a visiting professor at the University of Tampere (Finland) and Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) and as a teacher of Russian as a second language at the British International School in Moscow.
I am the co-author of a book Russkij anekdot: tekst i rechevoj zhanr [Russian Joke: Text and Speech Genre] Moscow, 2002) and the author of more than 100 articles. My articles have dealt with modern Russian – its word formation and lexicography, linguistic changes in at the beginning of XXI century and speech culture.
For five years (2002–7) I was the author and presenter of a weekly radio program about Russian language “Gramotej” (“Mayak”) and for a year (2007) - author and presenter of a weekly TV program about Russian language “Znaem russkij” (“Mir”). My programs were twice nominated as the best language programs in Russian media.
I have three sons, two daughters-in-law and many friends throughout the world. I enjoy inviting my friends and family to my house or visiting them, talking, telling jokes and dancing.
Courses
Courses offered in the past four years.
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RUSS 3302 - Advanced Intermediate Russian
For students with 300 hours of prior formal classroom instruction in Russian. In this class students review the basic grammatical and syntactical structures of the Russian language and focus their attention on more challenging structures of the language such as participles, comparative forms, and verbs of motion. At the end of the summer most students have an active vocabulary approaching 2,000 words. Readings for the class include poetry, short stories, and longer prose works, as well as newspaper articles. During half the summer program significant time is devoted to watching television news reports and reading news items. Students typically complete this course with intermediate-mid to intermediate high language skills.
Summer 2009
RUSS 3303 - Advanced Intermediate Russian
For students with 300 hours of prior formal classroom instruction in Russian. In this class students review the basic grammatical and syntactical structures of the Russian language and focus their attention on more challenging structures of the language such as participles, comparative forms, and verbs of motion. At the end of the summer most students have an active vocabulary approaching 2,000 words. Readings for the class include poetry, short stories, and longer prose works, as well as newspaper articles. During half the summer program significant time is devoted to watching television news reports and reading news items. Students typically complete this course with intermediate-mid to intermediate high language skills.
Summer 2009
RUSS 3304 - Advanced Intermediate Russian
For students with 300 hours of prior formal classroom instruction in Russian. In this class students review the basic grammatical and syntactical structures of the Russian language and focus their attention on more challenging structures of the language such as participles, comparative forms, and verbs of motion. At the end of the summer most students have an active vocabulary approaching 2,000 words. Readings for the class include poetry, short stories, and longer prose works, as well as newspaper articles. During half the summer program significant time is devoted to watching television news reports and reading news items. Students typically complete this course with intermediate-mid to intermediate high language skills.
Summer 2009
RUSS 3305 - Advanced Intermediate Russian
For students with 300 hours of prior formal classroom instruction in Russian. In this class students review the basic grammatical and syntactical structures of the Russian language and focus their attention on more challenging structures of the language such as participles, comparative forms, and verbs of motion. At the end of the summer most students have an active vocabulary approaching 2,000 words. Readings for the class include poetry, short stories, and longer prose works, as well as newspaper articles. During half the summer program significant time is devoted to watching television news reports and reading news items. Students typically complete this course with intermediate-mid to intermediate high language skills.
Summer 2009
RUSS 6502 - Adv Conversation Practicum
Advanced Conversation Practicum
Students in this class will focus on expanding their lexicon and their syntactical repertoire in scholarly and journalistic speech and on preparing scholarly presentations in their area of interest. Main themes will be political, economic, cultural, and social life in Russia, as they approach interesting and sometimes controversial topics concerning contemporary Russian society and culture. Students will read assigned articles from scholarship and press, watch videos on Russian politics, society, and culture, discuss these materials, and write compositions. Grades will be determined according to participation in class discussions, weekly compositions, an oral presentation, and a final oral examination.
Linguistics Language & StylisticsSummer 2008
RUSS 6520 - Conversational Russian
Conversational Russian
This course will provide conversastional practice, focusing on expandning specialized vocabulary and developing fluency. Many discussion topics will be taken from current events.
Language & StylisticsSummer 2011
RUSS 6710 - Intertextuality Post-Sov Cult
Intertextuality in Post-Soviet Russian Culture
This course aims to improves students' cultural literacy by examining key phrases, texts, films, current events, names, jokes and other concepts of the last twenty years that are frequently referenced by Russians.
Civ Cul & SocSummer 2011
