Lynne deBenedette is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Studies at Brown University, where she has been teaching Russian since 1995. Her research interests involve issues in second language acquisition which affect teaching practice. This includes curriculum design / program articulation, effective use of technology, Processing Instruction and foreign language teacher education and the professional development of language instructors.
William Comer is an Associate Professor of Russian and the Director of the Russian Flagship program at Portland State University. From 1992-2014 he worked at the University of Kansas, where he coordinated the Russian language program, developed the Russian language curriculum, and trained and supervised graduate teaching assistants. His current research focuses on the learning and teaching of Russian, especially the area of reading comprehension.
Alla Smyslova is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Russian Practicum at Columbia University. Her research interests include second language acquisition, teaching Russian to heritage speakers and Russian/Soviet cinema.
Jonathan Perkins is the Director of the Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center at the University of Kansas. His research interests include Russian language pedagogy and Computer Assisted Language Learning.
