Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1992
1988
1982
1974
Harvard University, Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Harvard University, A.M. in Slavic Languages and Literatures
Norwich University, M.A. in Russian Language and Literature
Hertzen Pedagogical Institute, B.A. in Russian Language and Literature
EMPLOYMENT
2005-
2004-2005
2003-2004
2002-2003
1994-2001
1990-1992
1988-1990
1979-1986

(summers)
1993-2002

Lecturer, University of Washington
Lecturer, Georgetown and American University
Lecturer, University of Virginia
Lecturer, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lecturer, New York University
Lecturer, State University of New York at Albany
Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
Preceptor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University


Instructor, The Russian Summer School, Columbia University
The Russian Summer School, Norwich University Lecturer
AWARDS
2008

2007


2006


2002




1997-1998
A grant from REECAS to develop Moodle site "Phonetics Tutorial"

A grant from National Foreign Language Resource Center of University of Hawaii
A travel grant from Slavic Department of University of Washington

A Grant from Discovery Seminar at University of Washington
A travel grant from Slavic Department of University of Washington

Travel Grant from Slavic Cognitive Linguistic Association
The Honor a Teacher Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Through a Gift endowed by a former NYU student



Travel Grants from New York University and Roman Jakobson Foundation

LANGUAGES
Native: Russian
Near native: English
Structural, reading, and some speaking knowledge: Polish, Serbo-Croatian
Structural and reading knowledge: Old Church Slavonic, Old Russian, Ukrainian
Reading knowledge: German, French

COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
Russian as a Foreign Language
Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced Russian; Theory and Practice of Translation; Word-formation for Reading (Intermediate and Advanced)

Linguistics and Culture
Introduction to Linguistics; Discourse Theory for Interdisciplinary Projects; Metaphor in Language, Gesture, and Social Behavior; Language, Gender and Russian Society; Language of Advertising

Russian Literature
Russian Literature in Translation; Modern Russian Literature (in Russian); Chekhov's Uncle Vanya: Text, Film, and Stage Production; Russian Short Story (in Russian); Dostoyevsky's The Idiot

Graduate
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Methods; Old Church Slavonic; Phonetics and Phonology; Morphology; Syntax and Stylistics; Syntax and Semantics; Sociocultural Aspects of Russian; Applied Phonetics and Spoken Contemporary Russian; Translation from English into Russian and from Russian into English; Contrastive Typology of Structures of English and Russian

PUBLICATIONS
Books
1995

The Speaker's Perspective in Grammar and Lexicon. The Case of Russian. Peter Lang: New York, Washington, D.C./Baltimore, San Francisco, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna, Paris
Book Chapters
2006


2002


2002
''Gender and National Identity through Russian Language. Chapter 1,'' in: Helena Goscilo and Andrea Lanoux, eds. Gender and National Identity inTwentieth-Century Russian Culture. Northern Illinois UP

''Quoting Russian Poetry. Chapter 2,'' in: Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhart, eds. The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language. Slavica: Bloomington, Indiana. 85-202

''Quoting Russian Prose. Chapter 3,'' in: Eloise M. Boyle and Genevra Gerhat, eds. The Russian Context: The Culture behind the Language. Slavica: Bloomington, Indiana. 203-264


Articles
1999a


1999b


1998


1995


1994

1993


1990


''Referential Knowledge in Discourse: Interpretation of {I, YOU} in Male and Female Speech,'' in Margaret Mills (ed.). Slavic Gender Linguistics. John Benjamins: Amsterdam-Philadelphia. 1-26

''Jakobson's Shifters in Speech Act Verbs," in Henrik Baran et al., eds. Roman Jakobson: Texts, Documents, Studies. RGGU: Moscow. 508-518

''RRR (Russkaja razgovomaja re?) i KLJA (kodificirovannyj literaturnyj jazyk) v svete teorii diskursa," in M. Ja. Glovinskaja, ed. Liki Iazyka. "Nasledie." Moscow. 104-130

''Particles and Subtext: Coding 'Referential Portraits','' in: O.T. Yokoyama, ed. Studies in Slavic Linguistics Vol. III. SI. Ling. Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. 213-233

''The Metaphoric Nature of Coding: Towards A Theory of Utterance,'' Journal of Pragmatics 22. 103-126

''Discourse Theory and the Author-Reader Contract: The First-Person Drafts of Crime and Punishment,'' in: O.T. Yokoyama, ed. Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics II. Harvard Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. 243-65

''Conditions for the Presence of the Dative NP in Russian Impersonal Constructions,'' in: O.T. Yokoyama, ed. Harvard Studies in Slavic Linguistics I. Harvard Slavic Linguistics Colloquium: Cambridge, MA. 215-29

Review articles
2004

1993a

1993b
Review of Paul Cubberley, Russian: A Linguistic Introduction, 2002. Slavic Review, Vol. 63, No. 1 207-208

Review of Jens Norgrad-Sorensen, Coherence Theory: The Case of Russian, l992, Russian Language Journal 47. 343-50

Review of Margaret H. Mills, ed. Topics in Colloquial Russian, American University Studies, 1990, Russistik 1. 92-94


Translations (from Russian to English)
2003a


2003b


2003c
James V. Wertsch, ed. Totalitarianism in Europe. Journal of Russian and East European Psychology. A Journal of Translations, vol. 39, No.6. M. I. Sharpe, Inc.: Amonk, NY (90 pp.)

R. R. Garagozov. "Collective Memory and the Russian 'Schematic Narrative Template'," Journal of Russian and East European Psychology. A Journal of Translations, vol. 40, No.5. 55-89

A.V. Zaporozhets and the Psychology of Voluntary Action (I). Journal of Russian and East European Psychology. A Journal of Translations, vol. 40, No.3. M. I. Sharpe, Inc.: Amonk, NY (90 pp.)


SELECTED PAPERS
2006

2005

2004

2003

2002a


2002b


2001a

2001b

2000

1998

1997

1996a

1996b

1995a

1995b

1995c

1994a

1994b

1994c

1993

1992

1991

1990
''Categories & Functions behind Question words,'' AATSEEL

Discourse Grammar for First-Year Russian through Russian Films, AATSEEL

''Language and Gender in Russian Society,'' Washington and Lee University,

''Communicative Competence, Discourse Theory and Gender,'' Linguistics/Anthropology Seminar, University of Virginia

''Privacy Bubble: Metaphors We Judge by,'' Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association, Finland, Turku, abstract in http://www.unc.edu/depts/seelrc/acclist_2002.htm

''Cognitive Schemata and Discourse Perspective in Use of Motion Verbs Prefixes,'' AATSEEL, abstract in: http://www.aatseel.org/program/aatseel/2002/abstracts/Zaitseva.html

''Language, Gender and Culture,'' AAASS

''Use of literary quotations in teaching Russian language and culture,'' AATSEEL

''Literary Quotations in Russian Life,'' AATSEEL

''Speech Acts: Lexicon, Grammar, and Cultural Stereotypes,'' Institute of Russian Language, Moscow

''Cognitive Patterns in Teaching Verbs of Motion'', New England Chapter of MLA, Philadelphia

''Dominance, Aggression and Lies in Male and Female Speech,'' NYU Linguistics Department Colloquium

''Jakobson's Shifters in Speech Act Verbs,'' International Congress ''Roman Jakobson Centennial,'' Moscow

''Code, Text and Subtext: Interlocutors' 'Referential Portraits' in Discourse,'' Harvard Slavic Linguistics Colloquium

''Grammar and Communication in Teaching Russian,'' New England Chapter of MLA, Boston

''Coding Referential {I, You} in Male and Female Speech,'' AAASS

''Roman Jakobson's Heritage in Theory of Literature,'' guest lecture at English Department, Union College

''Chekhov's Cherry Orchard: Language of Alienation,'' guest lecture at English Department, Union College

''Particles as a Metinformational Guide to Discourse,'' AATSEEL

''Semantics and Pragmatics in Second Language Acquisition,'' Harvard Slavic Linguistics Colloquium

'''Distance' and 'Discourse Situation' as Metaphorically Interrelated Prototypes,'' 15th International Congress of Linguists, Quebec City

''The Structure of Events, the Speaker's Perspective and the CODE,'' SUNY at Albany Linguistics Reading Group

''The Category of State and its Behavior in Impersonal Sentences,'' AATSEEL


OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2008


2007

2006



2004-2005

2001-2003

2000
Developed cross-cultural inerdisciplinary undergraduate research program within UW Exploration seminar to be held in Sochi, Russia: ''Russian Talk: Communication, Culture, & Health in Sochi, Russia''

Developed a tutorial ''Phonetic System of Russian'' for LLC Moodle

Participated in the workshop ''Developing useful evaluation practices in college foreign language programs,'' NFLRC Summer Institute, University of Hawaii Chaired the panel ''Russia's Cultural Relationship with the West'' at 13th annual REECAS NW Conference

Internal reviewer for the Journal of Slavic Linguistics (JSL), speciall issue on research in Slavic sociolinguistics

Internal reviewer for NEH grant proposals

Visiting Scholar in Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU

Discussion, panel ''Gender in Slavic Languages,'' AAASS

Zaitseva, Valentina - Discourse Theory and the Author-Reader Contract: The First-Person Drafts of Crime and Punishment  
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