Dr. Maria Lekic

Associate Professor

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Lekic teaches courses in Russian language and literature in the undergraduate and graduate programs, and she is currently finishing work on a multi-year investigation of the acquisition of Russian verbal morphology by American learners in immersion environments.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. - Russian Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania

SPECIALIZATIONS

Russian prose fiction from Pushkin to present

Boris Pasternak

Foreign language acquisition and curriculum development

CURRENT RESEARCH

Acquisition of Russian verbal morphology by American learners in immersion environments

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Co-author of a number of multi-media textbooks used widely at universities and schools in the U.S.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Director of RussNet and CenAsiaNet, the principal resource-sharing networks for the Russian and Central Asian language fields.