9th SCRSS Russian Language Seminar 2017

Tatiana Piotrovskaya
Senior Lecturer, Department of English Philology and Language Culture Studies, Faculty of Philology, St Petersburg State University.

Tatiana has taught at St Petersburg State University (formerly Leningrad State University) since 1973. Her current teaching programme covers all aspects of contemporary English and includes two special courses: Aspects of Translating Business Texts and Historical and Cultural Life of Russia (Aspects of Translation, Linguistic and Cultural Studies). She has also previously taught Russian as a Foreign Language at the university. Tatiana's publications include Standard Versions of Written Exercises in Foreign Languages: Teaching Aid (2004). She was awarded a special Faculty of Philology bronze medal in 2002.

Vadim Levental
Writer, literary critic, book editor and political commentator.

Vadim studied Russian literature at St Petersburg State University. Since 2007 he has worked as an editor at Limbus Press, an independent publisher specialising in translations of the world's best authors and contemporary Russian fiction. Vadim has published as a literary critic and political commentator in numerous magazines, newspapers and websites. His debut novel Masha Regina (2012) was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize and shortlisted by the Big Book Award jury; it was published by Oneworld Publications in English in 2016. His collection of short stories House of Fears (2015) was nominated for the New Literature Prize. Vadim is a member of the St Petersburg Writers Union, Executive Secretary of the National Bestseller Prize and Executive Director of the Grigorievsky Prize.

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Please note: We only accept bookings for the full two-day seminar (not one-day bookings).

Fees are non-refundable except where:
Participants cancel their booking before 24 March 2017. Participants cancel for medical reasons with a doctor's certificate. The SCRSS cancels the seminar.