Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Russian and Director, Russian Language Program

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Expertise

Bilingualism, bilingual code-switching, heritage languages (Russian)
Second language acquisition general and language specific (Russian)
Language policies in the former Soviet Republics

Profile

Conducting research on the pragmatic skills of heritage speakers of Russian, specifically on how heritage speakers differ or are similar to native speakers in the production and understanding of requests

Awards and Honors

Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2012)

Doris Carland Prize for Outstanding Teaching (2007)

Courses Taught

RUS	10a	Beginning Russian I
RUS	20b	Beginning Russian II
RUS	29b	Russian Language for Russian Speakers
RUS	30a	Intermediate Russian I
RUS	40b	Intermediate Russian II
RUS	105a	Russia Today: Advanced Language Skills through Contemporary Culture
RUS	106b	Advanced Russian Language through Film
RUS	115b	Topics in Russian Culture and Society
RUS	150b	Advanced Russian Language through Literature (in Russian)
RUS	153a	Russian Poetry and Prose in Russian: Undergraduate Seminar

Scholarship

Dubinina, Irina and Malamud, S.. ""Emergent communicative norm in a contact language: indirect requests in Heritage Russian"." Linguistics Journal (2012). (forthcoming)

Dubinina, I. & Polinsky, M.. "Russkiy yazyk v SShA." The Russian Language Outside Russia. Moscow: RGGU, 2011 (forthcoming)

Dubinina, I. and Polinsky, M.. "Russian in the USA." Slavic Languages in Migration. Ed. M.Moser. Wien: University of Vienna, 2012

Dubinina, Irina. "How to ask for a favor: A pilot study in Heritage Russian pragmatics.." Instrumentarium of Linguistics: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Non-Standard Russian. vol. 40 Ed. A. Mustajoki, E.Protassova, and N. Vakhtin. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2011. 418-431.

in cooperation with Irina Dubinina, authors Maria Lekic, Dan Davidson, Kira Gore. Live from Russia. Second Edition ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2009.

Dubinina, Irina Y. Prisposoblenie k interesam sobesednika: vybor jazyka dla mezhlichnostnogo obschenia v Respublike Moldova. Proc. of Russkii jazyk v Respublike Moldova: realii i perspectivy (Russian Language in the Republic of Moldova: realias and perspectives). Chishinau, Moldova: Tsentr russkoi kultury v RM, 2007.