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RSL Faculty Members
Smolny's RSL faculty members are experts in working with international students. Most North American students find that the teaching style is a blend of the grammar-based methods common in Europe and the former Soviet Union and the more communicative methods popular in the United States.
Elena Nikolaevna Shchepina
Ph.D. in Philology, Herzen State Pedagogical University. RSL Program Director and Associate Professor, Smolny College. Lead Teacher for Advanced Russian II at the Middlebury Russian Summer School since 2001. Has taught at Oakland University (Michigan), the University of Michigan, and the Norwich University summer Russian School. Has worked with North American students for over 17 years and is the author of more than 20 academic publications. Research interests include lexicology, as well as the theory and methodology of teaching Russian vocabulary.
Courses taught at Smolny:
RUS 406. Reading and Composition. The Language of the
Russian Classical Text
RUS 401. Conversation and Composition: Dialogue of
Cultures
RUS 301. Conversation and Practice: Speaking Russian |
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Ludmila Petrovna Kozhevnikova
Ph.D. in Philology, Herzen State Pedagogical University. Associate Professor, Smolny College. Has worked with North American students for over 14 years and is the author of more than 30 academic publications and several textbooks. Teaches in the Bard-Smolny Summer Language Intensive. Research interests include functional grammar as well as the theory and methodology of teaching grammar.
Courses taught at Smolny:
RUS 403. Grammar. Difficult Questions in Grammar
RUS 305. Grammar. Morphology
RUS 303. Grammar. Applied Russian Syntax
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Svetlana Borisovna Stepanova
Ph.D. in Philology, St. Petersburg State University. Associate Professor, Smolny College. Senior Research Assistant, Phonetics Department, St. Petersburg State University. Has taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Middlebury Russian Summer School since 2002. Has taught in the Norwich University summer Russian School.
Courses taught at Smolny:
RUS 407. Audiovisual Course. Phonetics
RUS 307. Audiovisual Course. Phonetics |
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Olga Valentinovna Ryabova
Ph.D. in Education; Associate Professor, Department of Russian as a Second Language, St. Petersburg State University. Research interests include the lexicology and morphology of contemporary Russian, language of mass media, RSL teaching methodology, phonetics, 19th and 20th century Russian literature, Russian film and opera. |
