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Office Hours

Spring 2023, M, T - 12:00 - 1:00
Graduate Teaching Assistant/ PhD Student

Research Interests

Cinema

The Cinema of Moral Anxiety

Cinema of Stagnation

Soviet and Polish Cinema

Literature adaptations

Chekhov's drama

Theatre

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature, 2021 - present

University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

MA in Slavic Languages and Literature, 2019 - 2021

Irkutsk State Transport University, Russia

Diploma with Excellence, Economics and Management, 2006 - 2011

Awards and Honors

Scott Maltby Memorial Fund,

October 2021, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2021

Michael and Emily Lapinski Graduate Fellowship in Polish Studies,

September 2020 - June 2021, UW Madison, USA

Courses Taught

- RUS 101/102 - Beginning Russian I/II, Fall and Spring 2018-2019

- RUS 221/222 - Intermediate Russian I/II, Fall and Spring 2018-2019

- RUS 200 - Conversational Russian, Fall and Spring 2018-2019

- RUS 389 - Advanced Russian Seminar, Spring 2019

- RUS 101/102 - Beginning Russian, Fall and Spring, 2021-present