Irina Potapova (she, her)

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Phone
920-832-6737
Campus Address
Main Hall
Room 305
Russian Studies
Instructor of Russian
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Classes taught at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ

Second year Russian sequence (Intermediate Russian I RUSS 211; Intermediate Russian II RUSS 212; Advanced Intermediate Russian RUSS 250)

Russian TV Talk (RUSS 340)

Russian Animated Film (RUSS 130/FIST 130, in English)

First Year Studies (FRST 101)

Other Russian teaching experience:

August 2023 - present time: Instructor of Russian at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ, WI

August 2020-May 2021: Lecturer of Russian at Juniata College, PA

August 2018-May 2020: Graduate Assistant and Instructor of Russian at the University of Arizona, AZ

summer of 2019, 2020: Senior Instructor of Russian at Beloit College (7-week intensive summer program), WI

August 2014-May 2015: Visiting Language Instructor on Fulbright program at Juniata College, PA

Education
MA Russian from the University of Arizona (May, 2020)

Thesis topic: Expression of Femininity through the Rusalka (Mermaid) Figure in Russian Cinema of Twenty-First Century: Patriarchal Norms and Feminist Response

Specialist's degree (equivalent to MA) in Teaching English as a Foreign Language with minor in German from Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University (June, 2008)

Thesis topic: Linguistic and Stylistic Array of Characters in Ray Bradbury’s Works
Years at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ÊÓƵ
2023-present