About
Irina Potapova (she, her)
Instructor of Russian
Classes taught at Lawrence University
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 Lawrence University, 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 Lawrence
2023-present
