CURRICULUM VITAE
Elena G. Savelieva Thompson
3417 Pacific Ave.
Stockton, CA 95204
(209) 941-9311
E-mail: esavelie@uop.edu
webpage: http:/ / www.uop.edu/modernla.nsf/russian
EDUCATION
St. Petersburg State University, Russia
2005: Advanced Doctoral Candidate in Russian Literature. (equivalent of ABD)
Area of specialty: 19th Century Russian Literature.
Dissertation: American Themes in the Works of Vladimir Korolenko.
1971: M. A. in English Literature and Linguistics
1969: B. A. in English
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1992-2005: University of the Pacific. Modern Language & Literature
Department/ School of International Studies (joint appointment).
Visiting Instructor; since 1999 Russian Area Studies Instructor
Courses taught include: beginning, intermediate and advanced Russian,
Russian Culture & Civilization, 19th and 20th Centuries Literature,
Contemporary Russian Film, Advanced Russian based on Soviet Film,
Business Russian, Independent Studies (Special topics on Russian Lit.)
GE courses: Mentor Seminar I, Mentor Seminar II.
1971-1999: Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) State University
School of Philology. English as a Foreign Language Department.
Senior Lecturer (tenured position).
Courses taught: beginning, intermediate and advanced English
1974-1992: Leningrad State University.
School of Philology. Russian as a Foreign Language Department.
Part-time Instructor.
Courses taught: beginning, intermediate and advanced Russian at the semester
and summer immersion programs for students from W. Europe and the U.S.
July-August 1974: Russian Summer School, Budapest, Hungary
Teaching Russian at high school intermediate level (6-week-immersion course)
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MLL - Annual Language Performance coordinator (1999 - present)
COP - Russian Culture Club (Faculty Advisor 1992-2003)
COP - Humanities Center Board ( 2000-2003)
UOP - Faculty-in-Residence (Casa Jackson dormitory 2002- 2004)
UOP – Open World Forum - Russian delegation (Fall 2004)
SIS – Open World Forum - Russian delegation ( September 2003)
1978-1991: Leningrad State University, Russian Summer School
Coordinating annual language performances for 200 American students.
1989-1991: Leningrad State University, School of Journalism
Editing an annual journal "Wampeter" published in English by Russian students.
1985-1989: Leningrad Public Television. Youth Program.
Writing, editing and judging the American Culture related contest questions for
high school students' educational monthly Quiz Shows.
August 1989: Student Advisor and travel guide for a group of Russian highschool students and Leningrad Public Television crew visiting Washington D.C.,
Boston, Orlando, and other cities in the U.S.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Russian Language
19th – 20th Century Russian Literature
Modern Russian Literature
Russian Culture & Civilization
Contemporary Russian Film
MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Leningrad Association of the Slavic Studies
AWARDS
May 1998 - nominated for "Who is Who Among America's Teachers"
May 2000 - nominated for "Who is Who Among America's Teachers"
May 2005 – nominated for "Who is Who Among America's Teachers"
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
April 1986: Leningrad State University, ESL Teachers' Conference.
"Role-games in Teaching Conversational English"
April 1991: Leningrad State University, ESL Teachers' Conference.
"Some Fresh Ideas of How English Can be Taught at College Level"
November 1992: University of the Pacific, World on Wednesday Lecture Series.
"The Status and Role of Women in Traditional and Contemporary Russian
Society"
December 1992: CUOP radio program. "The Collapse of the Soviet Union"
February 1993: World Affairs Council of Northern California.
"The Impact of Gorbachev's Reforms on Everyday Life of Russians"
February 1993: University of the Pacific. World on Wednesday Lecture Series.
"Russia After Independence - One Insider's View"
March 1993: Angel's Camp. Calaveras County Chapter of AAUW.
"Russia and its former Central Asian Republics"
November 1996: Savannah, Georgia. SAML Convention.
"Let us Restore Justice: American Essays of Vladimir Korolenko"
April 1996: University of the Pacific. Tuesday World Forum Lecture Series.
"Russia: Black Market, Gray Market, Red Market"
PUBLICATIONS
"English Workbook for the Graduate Students of Humanities, majoring in the
field of Translation and Interpreting", Part 1, 1985; Part 2, 1987; Part 3, 1988.
Leningrad University Publishing House.
"My Special Field of Study" Readings and exercises for the graduate students of
English, Leningrad, 1987. Leningrad University Publishing House.
"Donalddestruction", ed. Alan Moore - translation from Russian into English of
an art catalogue for the Modern Russian Art exhibition in San-Francisco, New
York, Toronto and Leningrad. New York, 1992
"American Impressions of Vladimir Korolenko and his story "Bez Yazika",
Vestnik Sankt Peterburgskogo Universiteta Journal, 1.2 (January 1998): 85-90
"The View of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Korolenko on the National Question",
accepted for publication by "Zvezda" literary journal.