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Department of Slavic Studies
Tatjana Stepaništševa
PhD (Russian Literature)
Head of Department, Lecturer in Russian Literature, Programme Director for Russian and Slavonic Philology, Programme Director
Lossi 3-219
Research and supervision topics:
- poetics of Russian literature
- history of Russian literature of the 19th century
- Russian women writers
- guidebooks in cultural contexts
Ekaterina Velmezova
PhD
Visiting Professor of Slavic Studies 0.2 p
Lossi 3-221
Research and supervision topics:
- history and epistemology of linguistic ideas in Eastern and Central Europe
- linguistic text analysis
- translation studies
- slavic ethnolinguistics
- linguistics and semiotics
Roman Leibov
PhD (Russian Literature)
Associate Professor of Russian Literature
Lossi 3-219
Research and supervision topics:
- contemporary Russian literature
- 19th–20th century Russian literature
- literary canon
- soviet song
- literature on the Internet
Anastasiia Ryko
cand
Associate Professor of Russian Language
Lossi 3-225
Irina Abisogomjan
PhD (Slavonic Philology)
Lecturer in Czech Language 0.5 p
Lossi 3-224
Research and supervision topics:
- Czech language and culture
- history of the Czech language
- comparative linguistics
- contacts between Slavic languages and other languages
- history of Slavic philology at the University of Tartu
- learning and teaching Russian in Estonian schools
Elizaveta Sosnovtseva
cand
Lecturer in Russian Language
Lossi 3-225
Research and supervision topics:
- grammar of modern Russian
- contemporary Russian syntax
- micro-diachronical liguistic studies
- bilingualism and heritage speakers' speech
- history of the Russian language
Marcin Raiman
mag (Polish Philology)
Visiting Lecturer in Polish Language and Literature 0.6 p
Research and supervision topics:
- teaching Polish as a foreign language
- language policy
- comparative grammar of Polish and other languages
Maria Borovikova
PhD (Russian Literature)
Lecturer in Russian Literature 0.5 p
Lossi 3-220
Mihhail Orehhov
MA (Teacher of Russian Language and Literature)
Teacher of Russian Language
Lossi 3-222
Research and supervision topics:
- methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language
- visualisation of grammar
Natalija Joonas
MA (Russian Language)
Teacher of Russian Language
Lossi 3-222
Research and supervision topics:
- learning and teaching Russian as a foreign language
Olga Fraiman
MA (Russian Literature)
Teacher of Russian
Lossi 3-222
Janeli Nõlvand
MA (Teacher of Russian Language and Literature)
Teacher of Russian Language
Lossi 3-222
Research and supervision topics:
- learning and teaching Russian as a foreign language (general language and professional language)
Natasha Alexandra Kadlec
MA (Russian and Slavonic Philology)
Visiting Research Fellow
Anna Murashova
MA (Philology)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature
Research and supervision topics:
- contemporary Russian literature
Aliona Kuts
MA (Russian and Slavonic Philology)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature
Research and supervision topics:
- Russian and Slavic philology
- memory studies
- history of the early 19th-century press
- war propaganda
- Russian Empire in the 19th century
Evgeny Zavadskiy
mag (Literary Creation)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature
Ekaterina Konakova
MA (Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature
Research and supervision topics:
- representations of collective and family memory in contemporary Russian autobiographical prose
Olga Roginskaya
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature
Oksana Kuts
MA (Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature
Research and supervision topics:
- linguistics
- Baltic and Slavonic languages and literatures
- history of science
Anna Troitskaia
MA (Art History and Theory)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature
Lossi 3
Research and supervision topics:
- travel guide as an ideological text
Jelisaveta-Kaarina Kostandi
cand (Philology)
Specialist of Russian 0.1 p
Research and supervision topics:
- pragmatics of language
- language of the Russian diaspora
- language and culture of the Old Believers of Estonia
Valentina Štšadneva
PhD (Russian Language)
Specialist 0.1 p
Irina Külmoja
cand (Philology)
Project Manager 0.1 p
Lossi 3-224
Research and supervision topics:
- language and culture of Old Believers of Estonia
- Russian-Estonian contrastive grammar
- functional grammar of Russian
- language of Russian diaspora
Viivika Voodla
Academic Affairs Specialist
Roman Voitehhovitš
PhD (Russian Literature)
Lecturer in Russian Literature (employment contract suspended)
Liudmila Nikolaeva
MA (Primary School Teacher in Multilingual School)
Junior Research Fellow in Russian Language and Literature (employment contract suspended) 0.5 p
