Andrew Kaufman, PhD, is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of
Virginia. He holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from
Stanford University, and he has recognized success as both a
published scholar and an innovative, award-winning teacher of
Russian language, literature, and culture at some of the
country's top universities. To learn more about Dr. Kaufman,
please visit his website at www. professorandy. com.
Serafima Gettys, PhD, earned her doctorate degree in
Foreign Language Education from Gertzen State Pedagogical
University, Leningrad, USSR. She is currently a Coordinator of the
Foreign Language Program at Lewis University, where she also
teaches Russian. Prior to coming to Lewis University, she taught
Russian at Stanford University. Gettys is also a member of a number
of professional language associations.
Nina Wieda is a doctoral student in Slavic Languages and
Literatures at Northwestern University in Chicago. A trained
linguist with an MA in Social Sciences, Nina also has a book of
poetry published in Russian, and a number of scholarly articles on
Chekhov and contemporary drama published in English.
