Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Lida Oukaderova , Assistant Professor of Russian
Office: PHIL 509D, 994-0930
Spring 2008 Courses: SLAV 162.10, SLAV 186.10
Spring 2008 Office Hours:

Prof. Oukaderova completed her undergraduate and master's degree at Martin Luther University in Halle, Germany and received her PhD in Comparative Literature in 2005 from the University of Texas at Austin.  Her areas of interest include Russian and German literature and film.  In her current research, she focuses on the intersections between literature and economics in 20th century Russia. Professor Oukaderova's articles have appeared in American Imago and The Yearbook of Comparative Literature.

Recent Publications:

Richard Robin , Associate Professor of Russian and International Affairs
Russian Language Program Coordinator
Office: PHIL 509A, 994-7081
Spring 2008 Courses: SLAV 002.10, SLAV 002.11, SLAV 002.12, SLAV 004.10, SLAV 006.10, SLAV 010.10
Spring 2008 Office Hours: MWR: 9:30-11, MW: 12:30-2
Webpage: http://home.gwu.edu/~rrobin

Dr. Robin received his Ph.D. in Slavic linguistics from the University of Michigan and has been at GW since 1981. He also serves as the Language Center's Technology Specialist. His main area is methodology of Russian language teaching and technology in language teaching. He has co-authored a number of textbooks: Golosa: A Beginning Course in Russian (1993-2007), a proficiency-based program, Russian Listening Comprehension (1992), Political Russian (1991-2002), On the Air (1999), and Russian for Russians (1991-2006). He also coordinates distance-learning projects using authentic foreign-language materials on the Internet and serves as a senior researcher at the National Capital Language Resource Center. In Both GW and the field of Slavics have recognized Professor Robin with awards for teaching, materials, and technology (CCAS Distinguished Teacher-1987, Bender-2004, AATSEEL Best materials-2004, AATSEEL College Teacher of the Year 2006).

Recent Publications: 2007. “Learner-Based Listening and Technological Authenticity.” Language Learning & Technology.
2006 “Computers and Pedagogy in Russian: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?” Slavic and East European Journal 50, 1. 2006. Teaching and Learning to Near-Native Levels of Language Proficiency II: Proceedings of the Fall 2004 Conference of the Coalition of Distinguished Language Centers, edited with Inna Dubinsky.

Peter Rollberg, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, Film Studies, and International Affairs
Chair, Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages & Literatures
Director, Film Studies Program
Office: PHIL 513J, 994-6330
Spring 2008 courses: SLAV 092.10
Spring 2008 Office Hours:
Webpage: http://home.gwu.edu/~rgpeter

Dr. Rollberg earned his Ph.D. in 1988 at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He came to GWU in 1991 after teaching at Duke University in 1990/91. His main field of expertise is Russian literature and film. His publications include articles in Russian, English, and German on Bogdanov, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Grossman, Makanin, Kim, and Russian cinema, as well as translations of Russian literature. He has edited contemporary Russian short stories (White Mourning, 1989) and the works of Aleksandr Bogdanov (Red Star, 1989). Together with Dagmar Kassek,  he edited five volumes of essays on literary theory and Slavic studies. In 1993, the Kennan Institute included his monograph Invisible Transcendence: Vladimir Makanin’s Outsiders in its Occasional Papers series. In 1996, he published volume 10 of The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures (Academic International Press) and in 1997, a festschrift in honor of Charles Moser, entitled And Meaning for a Life Entire. Professor Rollberg won the Trachtenberg Teaching Award in 2001 and a Bender Teaching Prize in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he was Chair of the German and Slavic Department, from 2001 to 2003, he served as Director of the University Honors Program, and since 1997, he has directed GW's Film Studies Program. In 2006, he became Chair of the Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures.

Recent Publications:
And Meaning for a Life Entire (Slavica Publishers, 1998).
The Modern Encyclopedia of East Slavic, Baltic, and Eurasian Literatures Vol. 10 (Academic International Press, 1996).
"Invisible Transcendence: Vladimir Makanin's Outsiders" Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Occasional Paper (The Woodrow Wilson Center, 1993).

Galina Shatalina, Assistant Professor of Russian
Russian Language Course Manager
Office: PHIL 509G, 994-0889
Spring 2008 Courses: SLAV 002.10, SLAV 004.10, SLAV 010.10
Spring 2008 Office Hours: M: 2:30-4, W: 1-3:30, F: 9:30-11:30

She received her Kandidat degree in foreign languages from Moscow State University in 1979, where she chaired Department of West European Languages in the College of Afro-Asian Studies. Her teaching experience has taken her from Moscow to Ghana to the U.S., where she taught Russian for Diplomatic Language Services, Inc., before coming to GW in 1997. Her publications in Russia center around English-Russian lexicography and semantics. Professor Shatalina is a co-authord of Golosa: A Beginning Course in Russian (2003-2007). Prof. Shatalina was the recipient of the Bender Teaching Award in 2001.

Recent Publications:

Ludmila Guslistova , Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian
Office: PHIL 509-1A, 994-2112
Spring 2008 Courses: SLAV 102.10, SLAV 110.10
Spring 2008 Office Hours: MTWR: 2:30-3:30

Tatiana Kindzelski, Part-time Faculty (Russian)
Office: PHIL 509-1A, 994-2112
Spring 2008 Courses: SLAV 002.12
Spring 2008 Office Hours: WR: 4-4:45

Elena Ovtcharenko , Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian
Office: PHIL 509-1A, 994-2112
Spring 2008 Courses: SLAV 174.10
Spring 2008 Office Hours:

Delia Valente, Part-time Faculty (Russian)
Office: PHIL 509-1A, 994-2112
Spring 2008 Courses: SLAV 002.11, SLAV 004.11
Spring 2008 Office Hours: MTWR: 3:15-3:45