Language pedagogy, acquisition of Russian, language assessment tools, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, Slavic formal syntax, and history of the Russian language.
Recent Scholarship:
Textbooks and Pedagogical Materials
People, Times, Events: An Advanced-level Cultural Studies Reader. (Original exercises and texts, leading students toward advanced-level reading comprehension in correspondence with the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines and supplemental assignments for spoken and written discourse.) Focus Publishing, Newburyport. Forthcoming Spring 2012. (pp. 350)
Russian Grammar Review for Advanced-level Speakers. (Original exercises to review and master Advanced Russian Grammar). Focus Publishing. Newburyport. Forthcoming Spring 2012. (pp. 300)
Russian Animation for Conversation. Co-authored with Jason Merrill and Maria Alley. (Intermediate-level textbook which aims to improve students' Russian-language skills, especially in the area of conversation). Focus Publishing. Newburyport. 2008. (pp. 161)
Articles
"Interpersonal vs. Presentational Mode: Advanced, Superior and Native Speakers of Russian Take On Complex Description.” Slavic and East European Studies Journal. 54 (1), 2010. (pp.54-75)
"An overview of spontaneous English verbal importations into the speech of Russians in North America (linguistic outcome of a contact situation).” AATSEEL Newsletter, Vol. 51, Issue 1, February 2008. (pp.16-18).
"Lexical Complexity of Learner Discourse: Interpersonal and Presentational Mode Descriptions in Russian.” Russian Language Journal, Vol. 57, December 2007 (pp. 135-155).
"Rethinking Description in the Russian SOPI: Shortcomings of the Simulated Oral Proficiency Interview.” Foreign Language Annals, Vol 40 (4), Winter 2007 (pp. 584-604).
"Description in Russian: How the Syntactical Complexity Of Description in the OPI Is Different from Description in the SOPI.” Working Papers in Slavic Studies. Vol. 6. Ohio State University, November 2006.
"Speakajesh Englorussian?" Working Papers in Slavic Studies. OSU, Spring 2003.
“Raising in Russian? How The Russian Verb Kazat'sya Seems Like seem.” Working Papers in Slavic Studies: A Festschrift For Leon Twarog, Vol. 1. Eds. Irene Masing-Delic and Mateja Matejic. OSU, April 2002.
Book Reviews
“Studying Language: English in Action”. Urszula Clark, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Volume 12 Issue 1, January 2009 (pp. 113-116).
"Russian in Use: An Interactive Approach to Advanced Communicative Competence.” Sandra Freels Rosengrant. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. 2007. Canadian Slavonic Papers, Volume 50, Number 3-4, September 2008.
Translations
"Between Summer and Fall", Maria Kamenetskaya. Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia, Mikhail Iossel & Jeff Parker (eds). Tin House Books, 2009. (pp. 253-258).
“The Language Situation in Tajikistan”, M. B. Nagzibekova: Special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism on multilingualism in post-Soviet states. 2008, issue 3-4.
“Russian Computer Art: Democracy, Anarchy, and Mysticism”, Dmitry Golynko-Volfson. Bathhouse: A Journal of Interdisciplinary and Hybrid Arts, Eastern Michigan University, 2006.EMU 2006
“‘Mew’ Instead Of ‘Moo’,” Grigori Kruzhkov, Amerika: Contemporary Russian Writers on the U.S., Mikhail Iossel and Jeff Parker (eds), Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. (reprinted in Words Without Borders, May 2004, http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/)
