Vira Zhdanovych
Non-Tenure Track
Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication
About
Born in Kiev, Ukraine. Emigrated by invitation to the US in 2000. Became a US citizen in 2006. Taught at the University of Minnesota from 2001 through 2006 and have taught at UMBC since 2007. Fluent in Russian, Ukrainian and English.
Research interests
Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian culture; pedagogy; textual analysis for surveillance and defense; cross-cultural contacts; Russian and Ukrainian language acquisition. Ukrainian history, thought and culture. Color Revolutions. Cybersecurity.
Teaching interests
Russian language, Russian thought and culture, inter-cultural and cross-cultural communication; undergraduate and graduate research mentoring. Post-Soviet Ukrainian thought and culture. Color Revolutions. Russian for technology and cybersecurity. Russian for defense. Campus-wide interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly with STEM fields.
Education
- Other, Business Administration — International Center of Marketing and Business, Kiev Higher Banking School (1997)
- , Dramatic Art and Film — Kiev University of Dramatic Art (1988)