Media Appearances
- Co-directed an all-student theatrical adaptation of F.M. Dostoevsky’s 1865 satirical farce, “The Crocodile.” December 2015.
- Held two performances free and open to the public. The first was staged at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, and the second in the UVa Nau Hall Auditorium. Approximately 120 people attended the two shows.
- Interview on Soundboard, WTJU. 23 August 2012.
- Discussed the arrest of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Maria Alekhina, members of the punk rock group, Pussy Riot.
- Appeared on a cooking special of the daily interest TV show, “Who’s First?” («Кто первый?») that aired on the channel All Ufa (Вся Уфа). 14 July 2011.
- Performed in A Night of Russian Opera, directed by Dr. Natasha Lyashenko and Dr. Irwin Weil, Northwestern University. 4 June 2009.
Community Outreach
- Organized and led bi-weekly screenings for the UVa Slavic Film Series (2009-2014)
- Classroom Consultant for UVa Volunteers for International Students and Administrators [VISAS] (2010-2014).
- Tutor at Washington Elementary School, Evanston, IL (October 2005- March 2006).
- Freshman Urban Program, Chicago Volunteer Excursions (August, 2005)
Events Management
- Coordinated events for Russian Tea and Conversation (2010-2013; 2015-2016)
- Oversaw the live-streaming broadcast of the UVa Institute of World Languages event, Symposium on Technology & Language Teaching, 30 October 2015.
- Coordinated the live streaming broadcast of Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives, a conference organized by the UVa Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 26-28 March 2015.
- Co-organized, promoted, and filmed proceedings of the symposium entitled, Mass Violence, Justice, and Memory: The Katyn Massacres of 1940 in History, Memory, Education, and Law. 23 March 2013.
- <http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEoggb7BD2Z_-t5XYhwkbcehWrpu5fqDe>.
- Coordinated Slavic Department digital videoconference with Nina Wieda, Ph.D., “Не к себе, а от себя—это красиво”: Ethics of Expenditure in Russian Literature. Technical support with the PolyCom ISDN System provided by ASCIT in New Cabell Hall 217. 9 February 2011.
- Led CREEES digital videoconference with Professor Sergei Khrushchev of the Watson Institute for International Studies of Brown University. 17 October 2011.
- Initiated digital videoconference with Kyle Scott, the Director of the Office of the Russian Desk from the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. 16 April 2010.
- Co-organized all events for the 2012-2013 CREEES schedule.
- Led a group of UVa students from the International Residential College [IRC] and Slavic Department on an excursion to the largest collection of Russian Imperial Art in the United States at the Hillwood Museum, Estate, and Gardens. April 2012, 2013, and 2015.
- Led a group of UVa students from the International Residential College and Slavic Department on an excursion to the exhibit, “Faberge Revealed”, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. September 2011, and November 2016.
Extracurricular Activities
- Society of Slavic Graduate Students (SSGS)
- President (2012-2013)
- Social Outreach Officer (2011-2012)
- Technology and Development Committee Chair (2009- 2011)
- Newsletter Editor and Contributing Author (2010-2013)
- Slavic Film Series Coordinator (2009- 2014)
- UVa Raven Society (2011- present)
- Language Advisor of University of Virginia’s Russian House (2010-2013)
- Northwestern University Slavic Film Series Coordinator (2008-2011)
- Russian language tutoring (2012-present)
Languages
- Russian: Advanced-High (OPI, November 2014)
- Polish: some reading, speaking, listening, and writing ability (1 year of study)
- German: some reading ability (1 year of study)
- French: some reading ability (1 year of study)
- Latin: some reading ability (1 year of study)
Membership and Affiliations
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
- Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
- American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL)
- Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
- International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT)
- Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA)
- North American Dostoevsky Society
Technological Experience
Adobe DreamWeaver, Adobe Media Encoder, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Articulate, ArtStor, Audacity, Blackboard Collaborate, Camtasia, Canvas, Coursera, Digication, Drupal, edX, Evernote, Facebook, Final Cut Pro, Garageband, Google Drive, GoReact, GoToMeeting, HandBrake, HTML (basic), iMovie, iPhoto, Juxta, Kaltura Media Gallery, Khan Academy, LinkedIn, Microsoft Office, MOOCs, NowComment, Pages, PanOpto, Prezi, QR Readers, SHANTI Audio-Video Collections, SANS Virtuoso, Skype, TinkerCad, Twitter, Vitae, Voyant, YouTube, WordPress, Zoom