Faculty

	Natalia Malinina Lecturer Crowe Hall 4-129 (847) 491-8252 n-malinina@northwestern.edu

Prior to coming to Northwestern University in 1997, Natalia Malinia worked in teaching position in the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She worked there for more than 10 years. During that time, she not only taught Russian in Moscow, but also served as a visiting lecturer at Conacry University in Guinea, Africa, for three years.

Education: Master's majoring in Linguistics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her thesis focused on making the comic aspects of authorial speech in works by Chekhov and Shukshin accessible to a foreign student through commentary. Graduated with honors.

Recent courses taught :

Slavic 101: Elementary Russian

Slavic 102: Intermediate Russian 102

Slavic 303Advanced Russian 303

Slavic 304: Russian for Advanced and Native Speakers

Awards: She was selected for the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 Faculty Honor Roll, presented by the Northwestern University Associated Student Government.