EVGENY DENGUB Curriculum vitae Education
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, Dissertation title “Investigating Syntactic and Lexical Complexity,
Accuracy and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian”. Director Dan Davidson, 2012
M.A., Second Language Acquisition and Russian, Bryn Mawr College,
Thesis: “Ethnic Self-Identification of Heritage Speakers of Russian in the United States”, 2007
M.A., B.A., Teaching English and French as Foreign Languages, Khabarovsk State Pedagogical
University, Khabarovsk, Russia, 2002
Academic Positions
Lecturer, Smith College, Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, University of Massachusetts
Amherst, 2010 – present
Lead Instructor, Assessment coordinator and trainer, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Summer School of
Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 2007 – 2012
Adjunct Instructor, Temple University, Department of French, German, Italian and Slavic,
2006-2010
Instructor, Bryn Mawr College, Russian Language Institute (RLI), 2006
Teaching Assistant, Davidson College, 2004-2005
Testing and Assessment Experience
OPI Tester, OPIc, WPT, and AAPPL rater in Russian and English, Language Testing International,
2011 – present
Testing Program Coordinator, Oral and Writing Proficiency Testing Trainer,
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Summer School of Russian, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 2012 –
present
Consultant and Item Writer, Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure in Russian, Evaluation
Systems Group of Person, 2012 – 2014
Consultant and Item Writer, New York Teacher Certification Examination in Russian, Evaluation
Systems Group of Person, 2014 – 2016
Target Language Expert, Reading and Listening Tests Review, Defense Language Institute,
Monterey, CA, 2014
Participant, Assessment Training Seminar, the ILR scale as it pertains to the selection and
evaluation of texts and tasks for the assessment of reading and listening, American Councils for
International Education, Washington, D.C., 2013
Reviewer, Prototype AP Russian Standard Setting Meetings, American Councils for International
Education, Washington, D.C., 2012
OPI Tester, Memphis City Schools Young Language Learners Testing Project, Memphis, TN, 2012
Evgeny Dengub 2 of 5 Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure Objective Review Committee, Reviewer of test
objectives for the language tests, 2012
Other Positions
Program Director, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy for Russian Teachers STARTALK
Summer Institute, Middlebury, VT, 2013 – 2014, 2016
Director, Resource Center for Teachers of Russian www.teachrussian.org, 2007 – present
Consultant, National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), American Councils, 2009 –
present
Deputy Director, Linguistic School, Amursk, Russia, 2002-2004
Courses Taught
All levels of Russian Language including Heritage
Russian Culture (in translation)
Language in Society (in English)
Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy for Russian Teachers (graduate course in English)
Honors, Awards and Grants
Access to Language Education for www.teachrussian.org from Computer-Assisted Language
Instruction Consortium (CALICO), 2014
Teaching with Technology, Grant to develop Online Modules for the Beginning Russian Course:
5,000; Five College Inc., 2013
STARTALK National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) Grant for Russian Teachers’ Training
Program: $52,000 (2013); $58,500 (2014); $57,346 (2016).
Full Graduate Fellowship, Bryn Mawr College, 2005
Teaching Assistant Fellowship, Institute of International Education, New York / Davidson College,
Davidson, NC; 2004
Graduated with highest honors (summa cum laude equivalent),
Khabarovsk State Pedagogical University, 2002
Textbooks and Other Learning Materials
E. Dengub, P. Alexieva, C. Lucey. (2015) About that Which Did not Happen. An Annotated Russian
Reader. iLearnRussian Publishers.
B.Rifkin, E. Dengub, S. Nazarova. (forthcoming). Panorama. Intermediate Russian language
textbook. Georgetown University Press.
M. Rojavin, E. Dengub, S. Forrester. (2013) Russian for Advanced Students (a textbook for students
of Intermediate-high to Advanced level). Dunwoody Press.
E. Dengub, S. Nazarova. Russian Handwriting Sheets. (2010)
Evgeny Dengub 3 of 5 E. Dengub, S. Nazarova (eds.) Chekhov Bilingual (English and Russian Edition) (Chtenia) (2010).
Russian Information Services, Inc.
Edited Volumes
E. Dengub, I. Dubinina, J. Merrill (under contract) The Art of Teaching Russian: Collection of Articles
on Language Pedagogy.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
E. Dengub, M. Rojavin. (2010) The Conjunctions А, НО and И: A Comparison of Usage by Heritage
and Traditional Students of Russian.
Slavic and Eastern European Studies Journal. 53.4
Papers and Presentations
E. Dengub (2013). Blended Learning in the Russian Classroom.
Paper presented at American Association at the annual meeting of Association for Slavic,
East European, and Eurasian Studies. Boston, MA.
E. Dengub (2013). Telecollaboration in Advanced and Heritage Russian.
Paper presented at American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European
Languages. Boston, MA.
E. Dengub (2013). Investigating Syntactic Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of
Heritage Speakers of Russian.
Paper presented at American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European
Languages. Boston, MA.
E. Dengub (2010). Cohesive Ties in the Interlanguage of Heritage and Traditional Students of
Russian.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Association for Applied Linguistics.
Atlanta, GA.
E. Dengub, M. Rojavin (2008). Acquisition of the Conjunctions И, А and НO by Heritage and
Traditional Students of Russian.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and
Eastern European Languages. San Francisco, CA
E. Dengub (2008). Teaching Speech Acts Pragmatics Using TV Commercials.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign
Languages. New York, NY.
E. Dengub. (2007) Teaching about Directives: Developing Students' Pragmatic Competence Using
TV Commercials.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and
Eastern European Languages. Chicago, IL.
E. Dengub. (2006) Ethnic Self-Identification of Heritage Speakers of Russian in the United States
Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and
Eastern European Languages. Philadelphia, PA.
Evgeny Dengub 4 of 5 Invited Talks and Presentations
Teaching for Proficiency
Apprentice Teachers and Faculty Development Workshop, Davidson College, August 28-30,
2015
Testing and Teaching Writing Proficiency
Center for Teaching and Learning, Brandeis University, April 30, 2015
Proficiency-based Testing and Teaching
Center for Teaching and Learning, Brandeis University, December 12, 2014
Searching for a Perfect Blend: Students, Teachers, and Technology
Slavic Language Pedagogy Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, February 21,
2014
Telecollaboration in Advanced Language Classrooms
Center for Language Teaching Advancement, State Michigan University, February 20, 2014
Investigation of Lexicon in Heritage Students’ Written Speech
US-Russia International Symposium on the Study and Teaching of Russian, American
Councils for International Education, Washington, D.C, April 26-27, 2013.
Curricular and Materials Development
Developed (with S. Nazarova) a series of lessons for the Russian language learning supplement
to Russian Life magazine, 2009 – 2015 (30 issues)
Developed (with I. Dubinina and S. Nazarova) “Welcome to Russian”, an online tutorial for
introducing Russian alphabet and basic vocabulary accompanied by handwriting sheets, 2010
Developed a new Russian culture course in translation, Temple University, 2007
Developed a series of multimedia lessons for advanced students of Russian, Bryn Mawr College,
2006
Workshops
Author and Instructor, Language Proficiency Testing. Middlebury, VT, 2012 – 2014
Author and Instructor, Teaching Russian to American students: a series of workshops on interactive
teaching, assessment and evaluation, curriculum and material design. Kazan, Russia; Kirov; Russia,
November 2009; May 2013
Co-author and instructor, Teaching Russian: Theory and Practice: a series of workshops on
interactive teaching, assessment and evaluation, curriculum and material design. Kazan State
University Kazan, Russia; May 2010
Service
Profession
Member, Board of Directors, ACTR (American Councils of Teachers of Russian), 2015 – present
Annual Russian Language Pedagogy Round Table, Wellesley College, MA, Co-chair, 2014
Evgeny Dengub 5 of 5 National Russian Essay Contest, Co-Chair, 2013 – present
Textbook reviewer, Focus Publishing, 2011
Proposal Reviewer, Annual Convention of American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern
European Languages, 2009 – present
Judge, The Delaware Valley Olympiada Competition, 2007-2010
Project director and associate editor, website www.teachrussian.org, 2007 – present
Community
Convener, the First Regional Debate Tournament, Khabarovsk, Russia, 2003
Professional Memberships
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages (AATSEEL)
American Councils for International education (ACTR/ACCELS)
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
American Councils of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
Languages
Russian (Native)
English (Near-native)
French (Reading)