Personal profile

Awards

  • Doctoral Student Research Grant, Graduate Center of the City University of New York: “Aesthetics and Politics of Screen Words in Silent Avant-Garde Cinema” (2008-2009)
  • City University of New York Writing Fellowship (2006-2008)
  • Women's International Leadership Grant, International House, New York (2001-2002)
  • Edmund S. Muskie and Freedom Support Act Graduate Fellowship, The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State / Open Society Institute (2000-2002)
  • American Studies Grant, Visiting Scholar at Indiana University Bloomington (1998)

Research interests

  • Teaching advanced writing and speaking in academic contexts
  • Feedback and reflective learning
  • Foreign language teacher education
  • Verbal-visual interaction

Teaching

  • Integrated Language and Study Skills 1 and 2
  • Language in Use 1
  • Practical Phonetics and Oral Communication Skills 2
  • Advanced Speaking Skills for English Teachers

Administrative duties

Level coordinator of the module "Integrated Language and Study Skills"

Education/Academic qualification

PhD in English, Words on the Silent Screens of American Cinema, City University of New York

Award Date: 30 Sept 2010

Certificate in International Business English Training, Trinity College London

Award Date: 1 Apr 2009

Master of Philosophy, City University of New York

Award Date: 1 Oct 2007

MA in International Educational Development, Columbia University in the City of New York

Award Date: 22 May 2002

Diploma of Specialist in EFL Teaching, Ryazan State University named for S. A. Yesenin

Award Date: 1 Jul 1995