Svetlana Korshunova

Svetlana Korshunova
Senior Lecturer
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Email
[email protected]
Office
038 East Pyne

I received my candidate of sciences degree (PhD equivalent) from the Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1992. Before coming to Princeton, I taught all levels of the Russian language and coordinated the Russian Heritage Program at the University of Pennsylvania. In my teaching, as well as in my research projects, I devote myself primarily to the heritage language pedagogy, the issues of the heritage language learners’ identity/-ies, and computer-enhanced teaching and learning. That is why the digital storytelling project, which offers students to share their experiences, reflect on their background, culture, and relationships inside their heritage communities through different media occupies a central place in my Russian for Heritage Speakers course. In 2021, I launched the website (and later a podcast) “Code of the World” which I hope will serve not only as a repository of heritage students’ digital stories but also as a meeting point for all Princeton Russian heritage language students: https://commons.princeton.edu/code.

I also teach the Intermediate / Advanced-level Russian courses, as well as a graduate second language teaching methods course, and supervise the work of graduate students teaching the 1-st and 2-nd-year Russian.

Current Project: 

I am currently working on the Russian for Academic Purposes textbook.

Articles:

“Code of the World”: A Digital Storytelling Project in the Russian Heritage Classroom. – The FLTMAG, March 2021. https://fltmag.com/digital-storytelling-heritage/

“’Tellers of Us’: The Use of Digital Storytelling in the Heritage Classroom,” Current Trends and Future Perspectives in Russian Studies. -MKP – Barcelona 2018, 994-1001.

“Anthology as a Device,” Russian Language and Culture: Studies & Methods & Approaches and Interpretations, Moscow: Russian University for the Humanities, 2015. 

Courses Taught at Princeton: 

Undergraduate Courses:

  • Russian 107 (Intermediate Russian II)
  • Russian 103-108 (Russian for Heritage Speakers I and II)
  • Russian 207 (Advanced Russian Reading and Conversation I)
  • Russian 305 (Russian Humor)
  • Slavic 91 (Aspects of Russian Grammar in Literary Contexts)
  • Slavic 304 (Soviet Animation: Between Art and Propaganda)
  • Slavic 332 (Russian Through Art)

 

Graduate Courses:

  • Russian 549-550 (Russian for Academic Purposes I and II)
  • Slavic 535 (Methods of Teaching Russian)