Lecturer in Russian, Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Stony Brook University

Academic Co-Director and Admissions Coordinator, The Advanced Critical Language Institute for Russian Immersion (http://www.advancedrussian.org)

Doctor of Arts in Foreign Language Instruction
Stony Brook University
Concentration in Russian
Specialization: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Master of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language
University of Cincinnati

Bachelor of Arts in English, Minor in French
Kharkov National University, Ukraine
Specialization in English Language and Literature, Theory of Translation

Lecturer
Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Stony Brook :

Courses Taught (courses marked * were created and designed by me):

• Elementary Russian I, II (RUS 111, 112)
• Intermediate Russian I, II (RUS 211, 212)
• Advanced Russian Composition and Conversation I, II (RUS 311, 312)
• *Russian for Students of Russian Speaking Background (RUS 213)
• *Contemporary Russian Literacy (An online course) (RUS 331)

Academic Co-Director and Admissions Coordinator
Advanced Critical Language Institute for Russian Immersion, A Stony Brook University International Academic Program Hosted by Astrakhan State University (ACLI)

• Development and supervision of the curricula for the intensive advanced Russian language programs.
• Development of application for admission materials.
• Reviewing applications for admission.
• Testing development and grading (Placement Test, Pre- and Post-Program Tests)
• Compiling of statistic for test results

Pedagogical Coordinator
Russian Language Institutes under the State Department’s Critical Languages Scholarship Program

• Development and supervision of the curricula for the intensive intermediate Russian language programs in Nizhny Novgorod, Astrakhan, Kazan, Kaliningrad and Tomsk.
• Testing development and grading (Placement Test, Pre- and Post-Program Tests).
• Compiling of statistic for test results.
• Site visits to Nizhny Novgorod (2008), Astrakhan and Kazan (2009). Student and teacher meetings, class visits and evaluations.
• Reviewing applications (2007)

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Stony Brook University
Courses Taught:

• Intermediate Russian I, II (RUS 211, 212)
• Russian for Students of Russian Speaking Background (RUS 213)
• Advanced Russian Composition and Conversation I, II (RUS 311, 312)

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Russian, University of Cincinnati
Courses Taught:

• Elementary Russian I, II

Freelance Translator and Interpreter for the following companies:
Geneva Worldwide
Optimal Communicators
Performance Research
Legal Language Services

Consultant, Senior Translator and Senior Research Aide
Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University
Consulting, Translations and Psychology Scoring (English, Russian, Ukrainian) for the project: “The Long Term Mental Health Consequences of Chernobyl”

AATSEEL (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)

Graduate Senator for the Department of Slavic and German Languages
Graduate Student Organization. Stony Brook University

TESOL Organization

Russian
Ukrainian
English
French