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FULBRIGHT SUMMER SCHOOL - 2009: PARTICIPANTS

    Alfia Galieva (Orenburg) has a degree in Linguistics and Cross-cultural Communication (translation). Journalist and translator, Alfia has been a staff writer for the “Vecherny Orenburg” newspaper for five years and covered different topics – from culture to economics. In 2008 she participated in international fellowship training programme “Journalist-to-Journalist” of National Press Foundation (USA) in Mexico City. Galieva is the winner of the local journalistic contests in 2007 and 2009 and of The 2nd Regional Festival of PR-publishers in 2007. She is interested in linguistics, translation theory, stylistic and lingvo-cultural aspects of media texts, and in interactivity as cultural, psychological and linguistic phenomenon.

    Elena Grishina (Tambov)        A teacher, lecturer and tutor, Elena has worked 18 years in the sphere of supplementary and professional musical and artistic education of children and youth. Applicant of Rakhmaninov State Musical and Pedagogical College of Tambov, concertmaster of Tambov State Regional Cultural Establishment «Tambovkontsert». As a concertmaster has won an international contest and different contests between higher educational establishments. Grishina is interested in intellectual development schools in pedagogics, psychology of intelligence, psychology of musical activity, theory and methods of musical education, theory and techniques of dialogue.

    Firdes Dimitrova (Voronezh)        I'm a Fulbright Alumna (FFDP 2007-2008, Temple University, PA, USA). I live in Stary Oskol (Belgorod region) and work at Voronezh State University (English, Cross-Cultural Communication). I do research in American Native Literature and work with my best students preparing them for participation in Fulbright Program 2010-2011. I'm a member of TESOL and Society of American Cultiure Studies. I have publications and present regularly at conferences and seminars. Apart from teaching English and Cross-cultural Communication, during my classes we discuss Media influence with Philology Faculty students (1-4 year). We carry out surveys and do research based on Media reality in the 21st century.

    Marina Kuzina (Ryazan)          Teacher of English and ESL methodology supervisor for trainee teachers with major in Computer Science and English at Esenin State University,  Institute of Foreign Languages. Fulbright scholar (FLTA 2006-2007). Post-graduate student at Esenin Ryazan State University (PhD working title “Developing positive self-concept by learning a foreign language”).
    Research interests include self-concept, professional self-concept, ESL methodology, using Internet, ICT, WEB 2.0 services and tools in teaching.

    Natalia Melekhova (Yaroslavl) completed her Masters Degree in the Humanities at the Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University (Faculty of Philology, Theory of Communication and Advertising Department). She is teaching assistant at the same university. Courses taught: Culture of the Russian Language and communication (lecture and seminars, 2006-2009), Theory of Mass Communication (seminars, 2006). She is presently completing her dissertation on Confession Genres in Television Discourse. Her research interests lie primarily within the sphere of mass communication, media, media ethic, media policy, media audience and perception, television genres, reality TV, confession TV, everyday and private sphere on TV, documentary TV films. She is currently working on a course in Contemporary Media Culture in the HESP project "Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization".

    Kira Mesnyankina (Rostov-on-Don)        I graduated from the psychology department of the South Federal University in 2008 and am now doing a postgraduate course in the South Russia Institute for the Humanities. I work under the guidance of professor Shkuratov. My major research interests are in the fields of ludology, narrative and historical psychology. I have won Potanin scholarship three times, and head the students' project entitled “The leadership and self-development school.” I worked as a children's psychologist in All-Russian Children's Centre “Orlenok”. I'm keen on mountaineering and role-playing games. 

    Tatiana Mozhaeva (Barnaul) is a lecturer at the Faculty of journalism of Altay State University. In 2004 she graduated from the Institute of Linguistics at Barnaul State Pedagogical University. In 2006 she completed a PhD on “Language representation of cinematographic technique in fiction texts”. In 2007 participated in international programme „International Parliamentary Scholarship“ in Berlin. Spheres of research interests include processes of text creation and perception in the cognitive aspect; text visualisation; art synthesis theory.

   Svetlana Bodrunova (Saint-Petersburg)        Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Journalism, Deputy Chair of the Department of International Journalism, Assistant Professor, PhD in Political Science (2007).
    Graduated from St.Petersburg State University (MA in International Journalism) and University of Westminster, London, UK (MA in Public Communication). Research interests: modern anglo-american theory of communication and public sphere; modern history of journalism in Britain, USA and Italy; mediacratic trends in liberal and corporate democracies; business journalism in continental Europe; civil journalism and blogging journalism. Other interests: poetry translation, literary criticism and kulturtraegerung, history of European and American literature, history of European diplomacy.

    Oksana Chigisheva (Rostov-on-Don) has a PhD in Pedagogy.  Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of Higher Education at the Psychological Faculty of Southern Federal University. She is also a research fellow at the research and educational centre “Lifelong learning” functioning at SFU and a member of the British Association for International and Comparative Education. Oksana Chigisheva is the author of more than 30 works on research and methodology published in Russian and foreign periodicals including Theoretical and methodological bases of comparative pedagogy of the FRG (Moscow, 2008) written in co-authorship, and 2 learner’s guides. Her sphere of research interests includes general and comparative pedagogy, international education, pedagogical prognostics, pedagogically significant forms of international interaction and intercultural communication. Dr. Chigisheva has finished several training courses overseas including the USA (1999) and the UK (2007, 2008). During 2008 she was invited as a speaker to seminars at Oxford and Glasgow Universities and in September participated in the BAICE international conference “Internationalisation in education: culture, context and difference” with the support of RFH grant.

    Andrey Logutov (Moscow) is a Fulbright alumnus currently involved in teaching at Moscow State Univesity (School of Philology). His specific area of interest comprises American Romanticism, modern literary theory, and interdisciplinary studies.
Andrey holds a PhD (kandidat) degree in philology. He is also the director of studies at a language school in Moscow.

    Maria Veits (Saint-Petersburg) is a PhD student at the department of Sociology at Saint Petersburg State University. Participant of the international PhD program Studies in European Societies. She’s currently working on her PhD thesis on reconstruction of the Soviet everyday life in contemporary Russian cinema. Maria has studied in the US and Germany, she holds a B.A. in liberal arts from Bard College, New York. Maria is an author of a few projects that participated in international student film festivals. Her current position is project coordinator of the social communications center at the department of Sociology, SPSU. She’s also curator of annual Autumn School ‘Visual Methods in Social Sciences’. 
    Research interests: film studies, visual culture research, contemporary Russian cinema, Soviet cinema, mockumentary, visual methods in social sciences, visual anthropology.  

    Evgenia Korolyova (Tomsk)     Currently, a doctoral student at the Graduate Center, City University of New York and graduate teaching fellow with the City College of New York, lecturing in comparative literature. A graduate of Tomsk State University, Russia, with degree of specialist in philology, majoring in English and Russian literatures. Submitted her grad work in 2004 (Russian Translations of Byron's Poetical Works 1820s-1870s, graduated suma cum laude). With a series of grants supported by Fulbright and Carnegie foundations has pursued research interests in romanticism, particularly British-Russian literary relations, Byronism, nationalization of Byronic hero, etc. As a doctoral fellow at the Graduate Center, enjoys readings in critical theory (narratology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, etc.) and employment of myth in literature. Aside from academic pursuits, finds satisfaction in teaching both language (ESL) and literature.

    Ekaterina Chernetsova (Saransk)     In 2007 she graduated from N. P. Ogarev Mordovian State University and got the qualification as a teacher of English and French with theory and practice of translation as her major. She is currently involved in post-graduate studies at the department of Russian and world literatures.
    Her research interests include: American literature of the 20th century, the history of European literature, theory and practice of translation.

Ksenia Prasolova (Kaliningrad)

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