Alfia Rakova

Name: Alfia Rakova (e-mail)
Position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian Language and Literature
Degree: PhD Equivalent, Russian Language and Literature, Kazan State University, Russia
Address:

HB 6085
Reed Hall, Room 207
Hanover, NH 03755-1801

Phone: (603) 646-9947

Selected Courses

• Introductory Russian
• Intermediate Russian
• Advanced Russian Grammar
• Advanced Russian Through Film
• Russian For Heritage Speakers

Research Interests

• Russian Word-formation
• Etymology
• Russian Through Film
• Stylistics
• Morphology
• Russian For Heritage Speakers

Selected Publications and Conferences

• Integrating Songs in the Teaching of Elementary Russian. NeMLA 40th Convention, Boston, MA, 2009.
• Russian Songs in Teaching Russian. AATSEEL Newsletter, December, 2008.
• Russian Vocabulary, Schaum's Outline Series (With Ray Parrott). McGraw Hill, New York, 1999.
• Historical Word-Formation in the Russian Language. Collective monograph. Kazan State University Press, Kazan, 1984.
• Word Structure and Meaning in Teaching Russian at the Intermediate Level. AATSEEL Conference, Washington DC. 2000.
• Teaching Word-Formation in the USA. Canadian Annual Conference of Slavists, Toronto, Canada, 2002.

Consortium Grants, Publications (Harvard University)

• Russian Songs for Students of Russian. Produced CD with 12 Russian songs, accompanied by a book with lyrics and exercises (1999).
• Russian Films of the Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Period. Produced transcript of four Russian movies, translation, exercises, and cultural comments (2005).