Teaching

Spring 2024 Courses

Slavic 50: Introduction to Slavic Cultures

Spring 2024, TTh 9:30-11; 102 Moffitt Library

This course is designed to familiarize the students with the major topics and events of Slavic cultural history, from the pre-historic origins to 21st century issues of identity and socio-politics. Readings will come from a variety of sources including historical chronicles and saints’ lives, fairy tales, poetry, short stories, excerpts from novels, mass media and scholarly articles. In addition, several subtitled films (in full and in part) highlighting different aspects and eras of Slavic culture will be screened during the semester.

Linguistics 111: Phonology

Spring 2024, TTh 2-3:30; 60 Social Sciences Building

Introduction to cross-linguistic phenomena and methods of analysis in phonology, including phonological categories, features, alternations, and phonological models for capturing related generalizations; as well as syllable structure, tone and stress, and morphologically conditioned phonology.

Previously taught courses

Undergraduate

Slavic 39M: Linguistic Diversity: Languages of the Former Soviet Union

Slavic 50: Introduction to Slavic Peoples and Cultures

Slavic 100: Slavic Undergraduate Seminar

Ling 100: Introduction to Linguistics

Ling 111: Introduction to Phonology

Ling 130: Historical Linguistics

Slavic/Ling C137: Introduction to Slavic Linguistics

Graduate

Ling 211B: Advanced Phonology: Contrast

Ling 211B: Topics in Advanced Phonology

Ling 240A-B: Field Methods. Language: Turkmen

Russian 202: Advanced Academic Russian

Slavic 210: Old Church Slavic

Slavic 220: Comparative Slavic

Slavic 222: Descriptive Grammar of Russian

Slavic 280: The Living Word Workshop [Co-taught with A. Muza]