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Susan Kresin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. She coordinates the UCLA Russian Flagship Program and has been a faculty member at UCLA since Fall 1996. Kresin holds a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and both a Master’s and a Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley focusing on Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her dissertation dealt with Russian and Czech literary discourse. Kresin’s research interests encompass Slavic linguistics, including the verbal aspect, deixis, thematic hierarchies, and narrative discourse in Russian and Czech. She also focuses on pedagogy for Slavic languages, especially in culturally oriented curricula, and aims to address grammatical and pragmatic difficulties faced by heritage students. Kresin has developed and taught a variety of courses at different levels in both Czech and Russian languages, including self-paced and accelerated tracks. She has actively contributed to multiple professional associations in her field and has held leadership roles within the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages.
University of California, Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA
Teaching and coordinating the UCLA Russian Flagship Program.
University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA
Taught courses in Slavic languages.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Involved in undergraduate teaching and curriculum development.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.