SUSAN KRESIN, Ph.D.

Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
306 Humanities Building
Box 951502
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1502
Phone: (310) 825-4644
Fax: (310) 206-5263

E-mail: kresin@humnet.ucla.edu.

During Fall Quarter of 2006 I will be on leave in the Czech Republic. Please email me if you have any questions about Third-year Russian or the Czech program at UCLA. 

Courses taught 2006-2007

• Advanced (Third-year) Russian: Russian 101A-B-C
• Other courses TBA

Other courses frequently taught

• Introductory Czech: Czech 101A-B-C
• Advanced Czech Tutorial: Czech 187A-H

Research interests and selected publications

My primary research interests are language pedagogy and discourse studies (deixis, definiteness, verbal aspect), focusing on Czech and Russian.

Language pedagogy

Cestina hrou. Textbook, workbook and tapes. McGraw-Hill, first edition 1997, second edition 1999. Textbook co-authored with Ilona Koranova, Hope Subak-Kaspar and Filip Kaspar; workbook coauthored with Hope Subak-Kaspar and Filip Kaspar. For ordering information, please contact McGraw-Hill at 1-800-338-3987 (textbook ISBN 007-245547-0; workbook ISBN 007-035013-2).

“Online resources for introductory Czech” (ongoing project), available here.

“Teaching Neruda’s Malostranské povídky ,” coauthored with Lída Holá. Czech Language News, Fall 2005.

“A Literary Walk Around Prague: Second-year Czech with a focus on Prague.” Czech Language News, Fall 2004.

" The Czech Internet: Resources and Applications for Language Teaching," coauthored with Lisa Wakamiya. Slavic and East European Journal 47.2 (Summer 2003).

“ Vyuzití internetu v kursech cestiny pro zacátecníky” (“Using the Internet in Introductory Czech Language Courses”), in Setkání s cestinou (5-6 September, 2001), Ústav pro jazyk cesk_ (Institute for the Czech Language), Prague, 2002.

“ Resources and References for the Teaching of Czech,” in The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages and Cultures, ed. by Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 2000.

" Introducing Verbal Aspect in Context: A Lexical Approach," AATSEEL newsletter, "The Communicative Language Classroom," April 1996.
" Teaching the Genitive Case through a Walk around Prague," Czech Language News, Fall 1996.

Reviews in Czech Language News and SEEJ (Slavic and East European Journal).

Deixis and definiteness

“Demonstratives, Definite Articles and Clines of Grammaticalization: Evidence from Russian and Spoken Czech,” in Where One's Tongue Rules Well, A Festschrift for Charles E. Townsend, ed. Laura A. Janda, Ronald Feldstein, Steven Franks, Indiana Slavic Studies, Vol. 13, 2002.

“ A Definite Article in the Making? The Case of Czech ten,” in Pragmatics in 2000: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 2, ed. by Eniko Nemeth T. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association 2001.

" Deixis and Thematic Hierarchies in Russian Narrative Discourse,” Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 30/4 (October 1998).

Verbal aspect

“From Czech to English: Interrelations of Tense and Aspect,” in Kosmas 14.1 (2000).

“ Singularization and Pluralization in Russian and Czech Aspect,” in Slavic and East European Journal (SEEJ), Fall 2000.

Education

Princeton University. B.A., 1986
Slavic Languages and Literatures
TESOL certification

University of California, Berkeley; M.A. 1988, Ph.D. 1994
Slavic Languages and Literatures (Slavic linguistics)

Charles University, Prague, 1992
Summer School of Slavonic Studies

Previous employment

At UCLA since Fall 1996

University of Southern California, Summer and Fall 1996, Fall 1998Introductory Czech (language and literature survey)
Structure of Modern Russian (graduate survey)

Pomona College, Fall 1995
Russian, Czech and Polish Perceptions of American Culture (Freshman Critical Inquiry Seminar)

University of California, Berkeley, at various times from 1988-1996Introductory Czech
Introductory Russian
Intensive Introductory Russian
Descriptive Russian Grammar

Klementinum National Library, Prague, Summer 1991: Instructor of English

Masaryk Fellows Program, Summer 1990: Instructor of English (Cerveny Kostelec, Czech Republic)