Senior Lecturer
Foster 414
Office Hours:
By Appointment
773.702.7739
Ph.D., Russian Language Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1990.
Teaching at UChicago since 2001
Research Interests:
Russian language, literature, history, and culture; Linguistics (synchronic and diachronic); Medieval Slavic studies
Biography
Valentina Pichugin is a Senior Lecturer in Russian at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Recipient of the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and author of the Advanced Russian Through Film (2005; 2011), as well as articles on Russian language, literature, culture and history, she is particularly interested in recent developments in the field of medieval Slavic studies, language pedagogy, and theory and practice of translation and interpretation.
Previously Taught Courses
Language and Linguistics
- Russian (all levels)
- Scientific Russian
- Business Russian
- Third Year Russian Through Culture
- Advanced Russian Through Film
- Advanced Russian Through Media
- Russian for Advanced Academic Research
- Consecutive and Simultaneous Russian-English Interpretation
- Russian Phonetics, Word-formation, Morphology and Syntax
- History of Russian Language
- East Slavic (Old Russian)
- Old Church Slavonic
- Slavic Etymology
- Introduction to Slavic Linguistics
- Reading Russian for Research Purposes
- Special Topics in Advanced Russian
- Czech for Reading Knowledge
- Polish for Reading Knowledge
- Ukrainian for Reading Knowledge
- Supervised individualized research projects
Literature
- Medieval Russian Literature
- Russian Literature of the Eighteenth Century
- Literary Discourse: Readings in Victor Pelevin
- Myth, Parody and Technology in Contemporary Russia
- Russian Science Fiction Novels and Their Screen Adaptations
- Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Russian Fiction
- On the Concept of Love in Russian Literature from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century
- Supervised individualized research projects
Culture & Interdisciplinary
- Slavic Culture and Civilization
- Russian Screen-Plays
- Russian (Soviet and Post-Soviet) Film
- Geography as a Worldview: Russian Perspective
- Language and Power
- Supervised individualized research projects
Second Language Acquisition
- Teaching Practicum for Teaching Assistants of Russian