Rossina Soyan
Bio
I started my PhD program at Carnegie Mellon in the fall of 2020. I hope to graduate in the spring of 2024. My undergraduate degree came from Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University (2010). I have two MA degrees - a degree in Comparative Linguistics from Lomonosov Moscow State University (2013) and a degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Portland State University (2020). My research interests are reading in a second language, writing in a second language and indigenous languages of the Russian Federation (in particular, Tuvan). I have been teaching Russian as a foreign language in the US since 2015 when I was invited to Brandeis University as a teaching assistant via the Fulbright program.
Areas of Interest
- Reading in a second language
- Writing in a second language
- Indigenous languages of the Russian Federation
Courses Taught
- Elementary Russian
- Intermediate Russian
Selected Awards and Honors
- James R. Nattinger Endowed Fellowship, Department of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University