This edited volume is the first to address diversity and decolonization in teaching Russian language, literature, and culture. For multicultural scholars and classrooms in both K-12 and higher education, the editors aim to expand representations of Russian speaker identities and Russophone communities outside of Russia, as well as the culturally- and linguistically- diverse identities of students and scholars specializing in Russian within the US. Contributions provide concrete examples and philosophical approaches to present alternative ways to transform content and instruction in Russian Studies.
Chapter
1. Introduction.
Chapter
2. Historical, Cultural, and
Ideological Ties Between African Americans and Russia.
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3. Colonial
and Decolonial Impulses: Histories and Stories from Russian Studies Educators
in the United States.
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4. The Invisible Teacher: Reflecting on the
Teacher Identities and Classroom Practices of non-Russian Instructors of
Russian.
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5. Un-Teaching the Nineteenth-Century Survey of Russian
Literature.
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6. Teaching Pushkin in a Multiracial World.
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7.
Decolonizing Russian Studies: Reexamining the Nineteenth-Century Literary
Survey Course.
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8. Queer Russians in the American College Classroom.-
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9. On Decolonizing the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Classroom and Engaging with New Perspectives.
Chapter
10. Addressing
LGBTQIA+ and Non-Binary Gender Identities in Russian L2 Classrooms:
Approaches and Strategies.
Chapter
11. You Cant Imagine: Ecologies of
Empathy in the Post-Russia(n) Classroom.
Thomas Jesús Garza is University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Director of Texas Language Center at University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Rachel Stauffer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Virginia Tech, USA.
