Edie Furniss
Dr. Edie Furniss is director of the Russian Language Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught Russian in intensive summer programs across the U.S. for almost a decade and has co-authored a beginning Russian textbook, Russian Full Circle. She is a former Fulbright scholar to St. Petersburg, Russia.
Areas of Interest
Russian language pedagogy, interlanguage pragmatics, corpus linguistics, foreign language materials development.
Academic Degrees
- PhD, Applied Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University, 2015
- MA, Teaching Foreign Language (Russian), Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, 2010
- BA, Russian, Beloit College, 2007
Professor Furniss has been teaching at the Institute since 2017.