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Irina Dubinina

Irina Dubinina Professor of Russian
Director of the Russian Language Program

Research Interests

Heritage language acquisition
Heritage language pedagogy
Bilingualism
Bilingual code-switching
Second language acquisition

Select Courses Taught

EL 94a: Experiential Learning Practicum
RUS 10a: Beginning Russian I
RUS 20b: Beginning Russian II
RUS 29b: Russian Language for Russian Speakers
RUS 30a: Intermediate Russian I
RUS 39b: Russian Language for Russian Speakers II
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
RUS 160b: Russian/Soviet Jews: Dual Identities in Text, Image and Music

Degrees

Bryn Mawr College, PhD
Bryn Mawr College, MA
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, MA
University of Alaska, Anchorage, BA
Magadan International Pedagogical University, BA

Awards/Fellowships

Brandeis Faculty Service Award (2023)
AATSEEL Outstanding Contribution to the Profession prize (2023)
BEST CONTRIBUTION TO LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY 2020 by American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Easter European Languages (AATSEEL)
The Art of Teaching Russian was awarded Honorable mention for the Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize by the Modern Language Association in 2021.
National Science Foundation grant for "Parsed and Audio-Aligned Corpus of Bilingual Russian Child Speech (BIRCh)" (co-principal investigator)
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects in Arts and Sciences (2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
Brandeis University Provost’s Innovations in Teaching Grant (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019)
Board of Directors of American Council of Teachers of Russian (2015-current)
Mandel Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities (co-awardee), 2015-2016
Brandeis University Provost’s Research Grant (2016)
Davis Teaching and Learning Fellow (2015-2016)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2012)
Doris Carland Prize for Outstanding Teaching (2007)

Select Publications

Dubinina, I. (2021). Pragmatics in heritage languages. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press (pp. 728-757).

Dengub, E., Dubinina, I., & J. Merrill. (Eds.). (2020). The Art of Teaching Russian. Georgetown University Press.

Dubinina, I. & O. Kisselev. (2019). Rodnaya Rech': An introductory course for heritage learners of Russian. Georgetown University Press.

in cooperation with I. Dubinina, authors Maria Lekic, Dan Davidson, Kira Gore. (2009). Russian Stage One: Live from Russia, vol. 1 & 2 (2nd ed.). Kendall Hunt Publishing.

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Dubinina, I. (2021). Pragmatics in heritage languages. In S. Montrul & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press (pp. 728-757).

Dengub, E., Dubininina, I., & J. Merrill (Eds.). (2020). The Art of Teaching Russian. Georgetown University Press.

Dubinina, I. (2020). "Review." Rev. of Handbook of research and practice in heritage language education, by P.P. Trifonas & T. Aravossitas (Eds.). Heritage Language Journal.

Kisselev, O., Dubinina, I., & Polinsky, M. (2020). "From a linguistics lab to a language classroom: Toward research-based heritage language pedagogy." Heritage Frontiers in Education: Educational Psychology. The Home Language Goes to School: Heritage Languages in Classroom Learning Environments [Special Issue] edited by R. Slabakova, L. Dominguez, A. Martinez-Arbelaiz, & T. Leal.

Dubinina, I. (Ed.). (2019). Special issue on Russian heritage speakers in memory of Olga Kagan. Heritage Language Journal, 16(2).

Dubinina, I. & O. Kisselev. (2019). Rodnaya Rech': An introductory course for heritage learners of Russian. Georgetown University Press.

Laleko, O., & Dubinina, I. (2018). "Word order production in heritage Russian: Perspectives from linguistics and pedagogy." In S. Bauckus & S. Kresin (Eds.), Connecting Across Languages And Cultures: A Heritage Language, Festchrift In Honor Of Olga Kagan, pp. 191-215. Slavica Publishers.

Dubinina, I., Kisselev, O., & M. Polinsky. (2017). "From the Linguistics Lab to the Language Classroom: Toward Research-based Heritage Language Pedagogy." ACTR Newsletter 1-7.

Dubinina, I., & Malamud, S. (2017). "Emergent communicative norm in a contact language: indirect requests in Heritage Russian". Linguistics Journal, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Study 55(1), 67-116.

Dubinina, I. "The Russian Language Outside the Nation." Rev. of The Russian Language Outside the Nation, by Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, ed. Slavic and East European Journal vol. 59.4 (Winter 2015) 2016: 663-664.

Dubinina, I. & Polinsky, M. (2012). "Russian in the USA." Slavic Languages in Migration. (M. Moser, Ed.). LIT Verlag.

Dubinina, I. (2011). "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. Slavica Helsingiensa 40, 418-431.

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

in cooperation with I. Dubinina, authors Maria Lekic, Dan Davidson, Kira Gore. Russian Stage One: Live from Russia, vol. 1 & 2. Second 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.