Service

Service to Profession

Ad-hoc reviewer for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Frontiers Psychology, Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML), Language Teaching: Surveys and Studies, 2012-present.

Board Member and Professional Development Chair, WATESOL (Washington, D.C. Area Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), September 2017-2019.

Examiner of student written Russian exams as part of the French baccalaureate curriculum (12th grade), Rochambeau, the French International School, 2016-2018.

Peer reviewer in the Peer-Reviewed Explorations in Teaching (PRET) program, George Washington University, 2015.

Reviewer for the IFLE Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 National Resource Centers Competition, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 2014 (paid).

Reviewer for the Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) Program, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 2012 (paid).

Panel monitor for the Title III National Professional Development Grant review, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC, 2011 (paid).

Content area expert, Distinguished Fulbright Awards in Teaching, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, 2010.

Discussant role: Teaching and Researching the Language of the Media. AATSEEL, New Orleans, USA, 2001.

Service to University

The George Washington University Committees and Sub-Committees:

Member of The Academy of Distinguished Teachers (2014-present)
Member of Teaching Awards Review Committee (2015)
Co-Chailr of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Steering Committee (2014-2016)
Co-organizer of the inaugural SoTL poster session at the Teaching Day event, The George Washington University, 2016.
Abstract reviewer for the SoTL poster session, The George Washington University, 2016.
Coordinator of graduate-level sections of EAP 6111 (designed the curriculum, assessment rubrics and instruments, and supervised a team of five instructors), The George Washington University, 2012-2013.

Service to Community

Conducted a series of community events for Lingversity’s December Nights at Clarksburg Cottage, 2022:

Poetry of A. Blok (poetry reading)
Paths to Language Proficiency (lecture)
Cold War on a Chessboard (invited speaker: A. Romanov, University of Colorado, Boulder).

Read my translations of Lydia Kosk’s poems at The World Poetry Party, HoCoPoLitSo, in partnership with the Columbia Festival of the Arts and the Columbia Association, Horowitz Performing Arts Center, Howard Community College, 2015.

Read poems by Inna Kabysh for a dual-language iPad edition of Kabysh’s poetry that includes text, audio, and video, 2013. Artist’s Proof Editions.

Reviewed A. Gibson's translation of poems by M. Voloshin, Writers’ Club, Bethesda, 2008.

Member of the Friends of the Library, MC, and Co-chair of the Russian Books Initiative to serve the county's Russian-speaking population, 2004-2005.

Supporter of the Washington Museum of Five Russian Poets of the Silver Age, 2005.

ESL instructor of adult English learners, Christ Episcopal Church, 2004-2005.

Judge at Mid-Atlantic Olympiada for spoken Russian, ACTR, 2002-2003.

Teaching/classroom assistant, Luxmanor Elementary School, Rockville, MD, twice a week in 1998-2001, and on ad-hoc basis in 2002-2004 (provided support to children, including English learners and children with special needs, with reading and writing, helped with school events and activities).

Guest teacher, “Russian History, Language, and Culture,” K, 6th, and 7th grade class, Luxmanor Elementary School, Tilden Middle School, Rockville, MD, 1998-1999.

Guest teacher, “Russian History, Language, and Culture,” 6th grade class, Sherbrooke Elementary School, Sherbrooke, Canada, 1998.