*If you have questions relating to placement tests, please email Dr. Anderson.
Research Interests:
Foriegn language pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, technology in teaching, Baltic and Slavic morphosyntax
Honors/Awards:
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2021
Junior Research on European Union "Structural Measures Grant" to the Lithuanian Research Council, entitled: "Valency, Argument Realisation and Grammatical Relations in Baltic," University of Vilnius (Lithuania), 2013-2015
Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for ACTR Russian Language Teacher Summer Program in Moscow, 2009
Charles Townsend Graduate Student Prize in Slavic, Princeton University, 2008
Fulbright Scholarship, Lithuania, 2007-2008
Published Articles:
2023. Making more time for proficiency: A "flipped" model for adding authenticity. In C. Martin and S. Nuss (eds.) Student-Centered Approaches to Teaching Russian: Insights, Strategies, and Adaptations. New York, NY: Routledge, 81-102
2020. With Julia Mikhailova and Anna Tumarkin. Russian language readiness in graduate teaching assistants: implications for teaching and learning, in E. Dengub, I. Dubinina and J. Merrill (eds.) The Art of Teaching Russian. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 72-92.
2020. With Irina Walsh. Research-based Internet writing projects in the Russian curriculum, in E. Dengub, I. Dubinina and J. Merrill (eds.) The Art of Teaching Russian. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 431-454.
2015. "Passivization and argument structure in Lithuanian," in A. Holvoet & N. Nau (eds.). Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations, 2. John Benjamins.
2015. "Noncanonical case patterns in Lithuanian," in P. Arkadiev, A. Holvoet and B. Wiemer (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Languages. Mouton de Gruyter.
Courses Taught:
Elementary Russian (01:860:101-102)
Intermediate Russian (01:860:201-202)
Second Year Russian Conversation (01:860:203-204)
Advanced Russian (01:860:301-302)
Third Year Russian Conversation (01:860:303-304)
Structure of Russian (01:860:351)
Contemporary Russian Culture: From Peretroika to the Present (01:860:403)
Contemporary Russian Culture: The Thaw (01:860:407)
