Ekaterina Schnittke, CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

EKATERINA SCHNITTKE

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INTERESTS

Referentiality  Historical Pragmatics  Discourse Analysis  Literacy and Orality  Language teaching: Russian, all levels; Old Church Slavonic  Colloquial Language  Linguistics for Literature Students  History of Russian Language 

EDUCATION

Ph.D.Slavic Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 2000

M.A. Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA, 1993

B.A.cum laude, General Linguistics, Russian and Slavic Studies

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1988

EMPLOYMENT

National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), School of Linguistics

Assistant Professor (Docent). 2015-present

Visiting Professor, 2013-2015

Russian as a Foreign Language Teaching Methods

Academic Writing in English

Russian as a Foreign Language: Elementary and Advanced levels

Pasadena City College, Languages Division

Adjunct Professor, 2003-present

Russian 1, 2: Elementary Russian; Russian Civilization

California State University, Northridge

Strategic Language Initiative (SLI), Russian Language Immersion Program

Instructor, summer 2008

Intermediate--Advanced Russian Conversation

UCLA, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Teaching Associate, 1993-1996

Teaching Assistant, 1992-1993

Responsibilities: independent teaching, materials design, grading

Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced Russian

Russian Sunday School “Pokrov”, Los Angeles

Teacher, Drama Instructor, 2008-present

Russian Saturday School, Los Angeles

Teacher, 1992-1995, 1998-2001

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Research Assistant, Center for East-European Research, 1985-1988

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Fulbright-Hays Grant for Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

1997/1998 Academic Year, Russia

International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship (IREX)

1996/1997,1997/1998 Academic Years, Russia

Lenart Travel Fellowship, UCLA

1996/1997 Academic Year, Russia

Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA

1996/1997 Academic Year

Chancellor's Fellowship, UCLA

1991/1992-1994/1995 Academic Years

Dean's List, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

1986/1987 Academic Year

LANGUAGES

Native: Russian

Near- native: English, Hebrew

Reading/speaking/comprehension: Polish

Reading/structural knowledge:French, German, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Old Church Slavonic, Classical Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Old English, Old Egyptian, Hittite

PAPERS

“Why Historical Linguists Need Children: Birch Bark Letters in Light of Writing Acquisition”, Mind, Culture, and Activity, (1) 2016.

“Discourse Function of Referential Choice in Selected 17th Century Texts”, HSE Working Papers, Linguistics Series, Vol. 20, 2015

“Birchbark Letters against the Background of Writing Acquisition”, HSE Working Papers, Linguistics Series. Vol. 9, 2014

“Logic questioned: The communicative act of interrogation in a distorted poetic space of Brodsky’s Homage to Yalta.” The Russian Journal of Communication. Vol. 1, 5; 2009

“Tvoe-Moe: Oboznačenie sfery ličnogo v nominacii lica.” In Imenoslov: Zametki po istoričeskoj semantike imeni, ed. by F.B. Uspenskij. Moscow: Indrik, 2003

“Vybor nominatsii lica pri pervom upominanii (na materiale bytovoj monastyrsoj perepiski XVII v.” In Russkij jazyk segodnja, 1, ed. by L.P. Krysin. Moscow: Azbukovnik, 2000

CONFERENCESANDINVITEDLECTURES

“Освоение письменного языка вчера и сегодня: берестяные грамоты и письма

современных детей”, «Маргиналии-2015: границы культуры и текста», Полоцк (Республика Беларусь),August, 2015

«Берестяные грамоты в свете исследований детской письменности». Лаборатория семиотических исследований. НИУ ВШЭ. Апрель 2014

“Проблемы синтаксической сегментации в текстах малограмотных авторов.” ConCortJunior. Корпусные технологии и компьютерные лингвистические ресурсы в современной гуманитарной науке. Нижний Новгород. Апрель 2014

“Logic questioned: a distortion of the poetic space and question-answer adjacency pairs in Brodsky’s Homage to Yalta.” AATSEEL Conference, San Francisco, California, December 2008

“From Word Weaving to Sentimentalism: a Stylistic Analysis of the Contemporary Russian Religious Prose.” Paper delivered at AAASS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002

“Birchbark Documents against the Background of the Ontogeny of Written Language.” Paper delivered at the Language and Identity Conference, UCLA, 2001.

"Orality in the Historical Stages of Literacy Acquisition." Paper delivered at AATSEEL Conference, New Orleans, 2001.

“Conditions for the Use of Referring Devices with Proper Names.” Paper delivered at AATSEEL Conference, Washington, DC, 2000

“Traces of Orality in the Referential System of Late Middle Russian Written Discourse.” Paper delivered at AATSEEL Conference, Chicago, 1999

“Referential Choice and Discourse Status in the Solovki Monastery Correspondence.” Paper delivered at the Medieval Russia Workshop, UCLA, 1999

“First-mention Reference in Pre-Modern Russian.” Рaper delivered at the International Conference 'Russian language in its functioning', Moscow, Russia, 1998

“Modal Interpretation of the Indicative Mood.” Paper delivered at the Slavic Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, 1994