*If you have questions relating to placement tests, please email Dr. Anderson.
Research Interests:
Foriegn language pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, technology in teaching, Baltic and Slavic morphosyntax
Honors/Awards:
Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences Humanities Plus Pedagogical Initiative Grant, 2023-2024
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2021
Junior Research on European Union "Structural Measures Grant" to the Lithuanian Research Council, entitled: "Valency, Argument Realisation and Grammatical Relations in Baltic," University of Vilnius (Lithuania), 2013-2015
Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for ACTR Russian Language Teacher Summer Program in Moscow, 2009
Charles Townsend Graduate Student Prize in Slavic, Princeton University, 2008
Fulbright Scholarship, Lithuania, 2007-2008
Published Articles:
2024. With Daniel Brooks. Tracking Current Events in the Russian-Language Classroom. Russian Language Journal, 73 (2), pp. 145-162. https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1349
2022. Making more time for proficiency: A "flipped" model for adding authenticity. In C. Martin and S. Nuss (eds.) Student-Centered Approaches to Teaching Russian: Insights, Strategies, and Adaptations. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 81-102. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003289333-9
2020. With Julia Mikhailova and Anna Tumarkin. Russian language readiness in graduate teaching assistants: implications for teaching and learning, in E. Dengub, I. Dubinina and J. Merrill (eds.) The Art of Teaching Russian. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 72-92. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxnd.9
2020. With Irina Walsh. Research-based Internet writing projects in the Russian curriculum, in E. Dengub, I. Dubinina and J. Merrill (eds.) The Art of Teaching Russian. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 431-454. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqxnd.24
2015. Passivization and argument structure in Lithuanian, in A. Holvoet & N. Nau (eds.). Voice and Argument Structure in Baltic (Valency, Argument Realization and Grammatical Relations vol. 2). John Benjamins.
2015. Noncanonical case patterns in Lithuanian, in P. Arkadiev, A. Holvoet and B. Wiemer (eds.), Contemporary Approaches to Baltic Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110343953-007
2013. Case Alternation and Event Structure: Evidence from Russian and Lithuanian. In Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 20, A. Podobryaev (ed.), Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1-16.
Courses Taught:
Elementary Russian (01:860:101-102)
Intermediate Russian (01:860:201-202)
Russian Conversation (01:860:111-112, 211-212)
Language & Power Behind the Iron Curtain (01:860:270)
Advanced Russian (01:860:301-302)
Advanced Grammar Review (01:860:311-312, 411-412)
Structure of Russian (01:860:351)
Advanced Russian through Film (01:860:401)
Advanced Russian through History (01:860:404)
Contemporary Russian Culture: The Thaw (01:860:407)